Article “McCain Rips GOP Candidates for ‘Isolationism’” reports: Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, ripped into the current crop of Republican White House contenders, accusing them of breaking party tradition by preaching “isolationism.”
McCain said if former President Ronald Reagan were still alive he would have been disappointed in last week’s Republican presidential debate in which candidates voiced impatience with U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya.
“He would be saying: That’s not the Republican Party of the 20th century, and now the 21st century. That is not the Republican Party that has been willing to stand up for freedom for people for all over the world,” McCain said.
WATCHDOG: McCain is either forgetful or was taking poetic license. The Republican Party was the party of isolationism during the 1920s through 1941 and these views were perpetuated after the Second World War by Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, who unsuccessfully battled General Dwight Eisenhower for the presidential nomination in 1952.
