Chris Christie is a lunatic

And he's not alone.

The whole gang of Republican neocons has gone mad.

Nobody in America is listening, right now.

Let's hope Putin isn't.

Time to Stop the War Party

“If you’re in favor of World War III, you have your candidate.”

So said Rand Paul, looking directly at Gov. Chris Christie, who had just responded to a question from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer as to whether he would shoot down a Russian plane that violated his no-fly zone in Syria.

“Not only would I be prepared to do it, I would do it,” blurted Christie: “I would talk to Vladimir Putin … I’d say to him, ‘Listen, Mr. President, there’s a no-fly zone in Syria; you fly in, it applies to you.’

“Yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if in fact they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling … we have in the Oval Office … right now.”

Ex-Gov. George Pataki and ex-Sen. Rick Santorum would also impose a no-fly zone and shoot down Russian planes that violated it. Said Gov. John Kasich, “It’s time we punched the Russians in the nose.”

Carly Fiorina would impose a no-fly zone and not even talk to Putin until we’ve conducted “military exercises in the Baltic States” on Russia’s border. Jeb Bush, too, would impose a no-fly zone.

Rubio is nuts, too.

PB points out that Paul, Cruz, and Trump oppose Cold War II and beyond that World War III.

So why does Jewish Democrat - very Jewish, today - Dana Milbank seem to hope the GOP forces out Trump and Cruz as well, and to regard Rubio as the champion Republicans should stand behind?

Because Rubio's Wall Street positions on trade and immigration please Milbank, and the positions of Trump and Cruz on those issues do not?

Bernie Sanders, be it noted, has moved to a position on immigration whose political correctness is vouched for by The New York Times.

Hillary, by the way, supports the Syrian no fly zone notion, though O and BS and O'M all oppose it.

She was asked whether she would shoot down Russian planes and per this article replied, "I do not think it would come to that. We are already de-conflicting air space" with Russian military aircraft.

Not a re-assuring answer, though certainly better than "You bet!"

She has been consistently more hawkish than O and BS on Ukraine, the Baltic states, and generally sticking a finger in Putin's nose, anyway.

P.S., Ann Coulter wants the opposite of what Milbank wants, and no doubt it is almost entirely because the very things about Trump Milbank loathes she loves.

It’s Time For The Other 13 Candidates to Drop Out

She seems to have come a long way from the days when she wanted to conquer the whole of Islam and forcibly convert them all to Christianity, a whim whose public expression in 2001 got her fired from National Review.

Why are Republicans talking about starting a war in Syria to stop Muslim immigrants from killing Americans in America? 

Is it our job to straighten out Syria? 

Can’t our government just stop bringing the terrorists here? 

If Rubio thinks he knows how to govern Syria, he’s free to run for president there. 

(Except he’d have to stop talking about his dad the bartender because Muslims don’t drink.)

Republicans love pointing out that all the gun restrictions proposed by Democrats after every mass shooting would have done absolutely nothing to stop that particular mass shooting.

But the GOP’s demand that we take out ISIS would also have done nothing to prevent the San Bernardino attack. 

As we know from Jim Comey, the director of the FBI: Syed Farouk and Tashfeen Malik were planning a terrorist attack against Americans before ISIS existed.

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Obama has said: “Let’s assume that we were to send 50,000 troops into Syria. What happens when there’s a terrorist attack generated from Yemen? Do we then send more troops into there? Or Libya perhaps? Or if there’s a terrorist network that’s operating anywhere else in North Africa or in Southeast Asia?”

Good grief! 

This GOP machismo on ISIS has resulted in Obama actually making sense.

Kind words for O? Oh, my!

Here’s an idea: We let backward, poverty-stricken, misogynistic, clitorectomy-performing Third Worlders scratch out a living in their medieval hellholes, and just keep them out of our country. 

Also known as: the Trump Plan.

No more regime change for Ann?

Wow.

Does she now agree that GW and the GOP responded to the 9/11 attacks in a totally stupid and wrong-headed way?

Shocking!