Neoconservatives, said Michael Goldfarb, the founder of the Washington Free Beacon and the Center for American Freedom, stood with Obama on some of the key issues of the last year or so — they supported military action in Syria when Obama called for it and defended NSA surveillance — and feel burned by it.
“The consequence of it is it always ended up further isolating the hawks on the right,” he said. “Now the neocons are on the hawkish side and it’s the libertarians who are standing with Obama which makes them very vulnerable. They’re in a very tough spot right now because they want to shit all over Obama but they’re basically where Obama is on this.”
On the right, “you’re seeing skirmishes all over the place, people testing each other,” Goldfarb said. “I would say it’s a big problem for them that their foreign policy looks like Obama’s. That’s what a lot of these skirmishes are about.”…
The attempts to link Obama and Paul are “a little unfair actually,” Wilson said. “Rand Paul just wants to withdraw from the world, Barack Obama wants to fuck it up more.”
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