Kathianne
04-17-2015, 10:15 AM
You can hire some very good people and have the connections to know who they are:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417075/meet-jeb-bushs-national-security-adviser-eliana-johnson-joel-gehrke
Meet Jeb Bush’s National Security Adviser
by ELIANA JOHNSON & JOEL GEHRKE April 17, 2015 12:07 AM
They may have been mocked at the time, but the views Mitt Romney articulated on the campaign trail in 2012 about foreign affairs are now considered not just clear-sighted but clairvoyant. He said that the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq was a mistake; that Vladimir Putin was a major threat; and that radical Islam was on the ascent. Romney detailed many of these ideas in a wide-ranging address on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute. That speech was crafted in part by John Noonan, who was recently tapped to be Jeb Bush’s national-security adviser.
The speculation about where Bush will land on foreign policy given the distinctive legacies of his father, former president George H. W. Bush, and his brother, former president George W. Bush, has been rampant. Until now, Bush has offered little clue, assembling a team of external advisers from both Bush administrations whose views run the conservative foreign-policy gamut: It includes realists such as James Baker and neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz. (Along with Noonan, who will handle national-security policy, Bush has tapped Robert S. Karem, most recently a top adviser to House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, to advise him on foreign policy.) Noonan been airing his views on military matters since 2005, first on his own blog and then as a contributor to The Weekly Standard. So his hire is a strong signal of where the candidate himself, who is known to keep his own counsel on policy issues, might stand. Noonan’s hire is earning praise from the hawkish wing of the GOP and assuaging some early concerns among that crowd that Bush’s own views might resemble his father’s more than his brother’s. The Noonan hire, says a former State Department official who has advised several Republican presidential hopefuls, shows that Bush is “squarely in the robust-national-security camp, the Reagan peace-through-strength camp.”
This bodes well for whomever gets the GOP nod, if Bush is not it, these people will likely go to or support whomever wins.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417075/meet-jeb-bushs-national-security-adviser-eliana-johnson-joel-gehrke
Meet Jeb Bush’s National Security Adviser
by ELIANA JOHNSON & JOEL GEHRKE April 17, 2015 12:07 AM
They may have been mocked at the time, but the views Mitt Romney articulated on the campaign trail in 2012 about foreign affairs are now considered not just clear-sighted but clairvoyant. He said that the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq was a mistake; that Vladimir Putin was a major threat; and that radical Islam was on the ascent. Romney detailed many of these ideas in a wide-ranging address on foreign policy at the Virginia Military Institute. That speech was crafted in part by John Noonan, who was recently tapped to be Jeb Bush’s national-security adviser.
The speculation about where Bush will land on foreign policy given the distinctive legacies of his father, former president George H. W. Bush, and his brother, former president George W. Bush, has been rampant. Until now, Bush has offered little clue, assembling a team of external advisers from both Bush administrations whose views run the conservative foreign-policy gamut: It includes realists such as James Baker and neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz. (Along with Noonan, who will handle national-security policy, Bush has tapped Robert S. Karem, most recently a top adviser to House majority leader Kevin McCarthy, to advise him on foreign policy.) Noonan been airing his views on military matters since 2005, first on his own blog and then as a contributor to The Weekly Standard. So his hire is a strong signal of where the candidate himself, who is known to keep his own counsel on policy issues, might stand. Noonan’s hire is earning praise from the hawkish wing of the GOP and assuaging some early concerns among that crowd that Bush’s own views might resemble his father’s more than his brother’s. The Noonan hire, says a former State Department official who has advised several Republican presidential hopefuls, shows that Bush is “squarely in the robust-national-security camp, the Reagan peace-through-strength camp.”
This bodes well for whomever gets the GOP nod, if Bush is not it, these people will likely go to or support whomever wins.