{"id":6817,"date":"2010-08-30T18:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2010-08-31T00:10:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T04:10:59","slug":"john-bolton-preparing-for-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6817\/john-bolton-preparing-for-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"John Bolton Preparing for Presidential Bid?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a new interview with <\/a>The Daily Caller<\/a>,<\/em> former U.N. Ambassador and one-time Disney Star <\/a>John Bolton (up until now unnoticed by “The Great Mentioner<\/a>“) curiously declines to shut the door on a presidential bid. Consider:<\/p>\n

Not shy about his position on a wide range of issues, would this critic-in-chief consider a run for commander-in-chief in 2012? Bolton didn\u2019t reject the idea out of hand.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t is a very great honor that anybody would even think of asking. I\u2019m obviously not a politician<\/span><\/span>. I\u2019ve never run for any federal elective office at all and, you know, it is something that would obviously require a great deal of effort,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat I do think, though, and what concerns me, is the lack of focus generally in the national debate about national security issues. Now, I understand the economy is in a ditch and people are concerned about it, but our adversaries overseas are not going to wait for us to get our economic<\/span><\/span><\/a> house in order.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed as to whether that means he would consider a run, Bolton seemed to suggest that he might do it, at the very least to help put national security issues at the top of the debate agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the sense that I want to make sure that not only in the Republican Party, but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States. You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that\u2026there is a limit to what that accomplishes,\u201d he said. \u201cWhereas, some governor<\/span><\/span><\/a> from some state in the middle of the country announces for president they get enormous coverage even if their views are utterly uninformed on major issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

When pressed a third time about running, he said that while \u201che is not going to do anything foolish,\u201d he added, \u201cyou know, I see how the media works\u2026you have to take that into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, not a no.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a long way from the denials (or near-denials) that we’ve seen from the likes of David Petraeus<\/a>, Mitch Daniels<\/a>, and Chris Christie<\/a>. And it could be fun just to see Bolton run circles around the rest of the field on foreign policy. Get ready for the 2012 fireworks to start soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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