Yesterday on “Pensacola Speaks,” we talked with Rick Wilson, founder of Intrepid Media, about his thoughts on the GOP presidential field.
Wilson mentioned how impressed he was with Sen. Marco Rubio’s speech yesterday at Council on Foreign Relations.
Rubio argued that the United States must be a world leader. He said, “America plays a part on the world stage for which there is no understudy. When we fail to lead with strength and principle, no other country, friend or foe, is willing or able to take our place. And the result is chaos.”
Playing of the same theme of his announcement speech last month, he said the nation should not place one of yesterday’s leaders into the White House. “We simply cannot afford to elect as our next president one of the leading agents of this administration’s foreign policy – a leader from yesterday whose tenure as Secretary of State was ineffective at best and dangerously negligent at worst,” said Rubio. “The stakes of tomorrow are too high to look to the failed leadership of yesterday.”
He laid out his foreign policy doctrine and his claim on the presidency.
“The 21st century requires a president who will answer that question with clarity and consistency – one who will set forth a doctrine for the exercise of American influence in the world, and who will adhere to that doctrine with the principled devotion that has marked the bipartisan tradition of presidential leadership from Truman to Kennedy to Reagan,” he said.
“Today, I intend to offer such a doctrine. And in the coming years, I intend to be such a president.”
Here Rick Wilson’s review of the 2016 Republican class of presidential hopefuls: