Attacks on Clinton 7/9/15

ATTACKS ON SEC CLINTON 7-9-15 Summary  Lindsey Graham said Secretary Clinton was a chief architect of President Obama’s failed foreign policies and embraced a path of leading from behind.  Marco Rubio said that Clinton promised 4 more years of “the same thing.”  Jeb Bush summarized Clinton’s economic agenda as “whatever Obama is doing, let’s double down on it.”  Bobby Jindal said Clinton would make Obama’s failed policies worse.  Bobby Jindal criticized Clinton for saying people who are pro-life need to change their beliefs, and not respecting religious liberty.  Jeb Bush said Clinton was wrong for not thinking “Americans want the opportunity to work,” and implied her support for Obamacare would impede that.  Chris Christie hit Clinton for not publicly weighing in on Iran negotiations.  Jeb Bush hit the Obama/Clinton/Kerry foreign policy approach as holding “fancy conferences” instead of leading.  Jeb Bush said that the Obama/Clinton/Kerry approach lessened effect of Iran sanctions.  Rand Paul criticized Clinton on a wide variety of foreign policy issues, questioning how much she knew about arms shipments to Syrian rebels, arms that could have eventually reached ISIL through Qatar, arms funneled to Libya through Turkey, and the CIA Annex in Benghazi. Rand Paul suggested multiple times that Clinton had lied about what she knew.  Carly Fiorina said Clinton dodged questions in her CNN national interview, and hit her over Benghazi and the Russia ‘reset.’  Bobby Jindal said the only thing Clinton had run was Obama’s failed foreign policy.  Lindsey Graham said Clinton lacked strategy and resolve.  Lindsey Graham said that under Obama and Clinton, Syria and Iraq have become perfect bases for terrorist attacks.  Bobby Jindal criticized Clinton for her role as architect of an Iran deal, calling it appeasement.  Ted Cruz called the Iran talks a disaster and criticized Clinton for her role in them.  Donald Trump called Clinton the worst Secretary of State in U.S. history.  Donald Trump said Clinton would not create jobs as president.  Bobby Jindal said that under Clinton, the U.S. would turn into Greece.  Bobby Jindal said that Obama and Clinton celebrate the “cycle of dependency” in our economy.  Bobby Jindal said that Clinton was a socialist but would not admit it.  Bobby Jindal called Clinton a “math denier” and cited her support of Obamacare, “free college” and raising the minimum wage.  Marco Rubio said that Clinton won’t tell the American people that income inequality is a result of big government.  Ted Cruz said that Clinton would have to explain to the American people how she is not a socialist.  Scott Walker said that Obama and Clinton wanted government to be the “arbiter of individual success.”  Bobby Jindal said that Clinton and Obama wanted to turn the American dream into the European nightmare and that Clinton measured success by government growth.  Marco Rubio called Clinton’s immigration stances “silly talk” and said she changed her position on driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants.  Donald Trump said that Clinton would be soft on immigration and that her pollsters told her what to say about sanctuary cities.  Marco Rubio said that Clinton doesn’t believe we should do anything about illegal immigration and that she doesn’t understand that border security has to come first.  Lindsey Graham said he would put his immigration record up against anyone’s, including Clinton’s.  Jeb Bush said that Clinton flip-flopped on a path to citizenship and that Clinton is using immigration as a political wedge issues.  Donald Trump said Clinton was “extremely bad” on illegal immigration.  Marco Rubio said that Clinton’s CNN national interview showed “hypocrisy” over immigration.  Jeb Bush said Clinton flip-flopped on immigration for political expediency, highlighting her vote for the Dorgan amendment and her saying that unaccompanied minors should be sent back to their home countries last year.  John Kasich seemed to challenge Clinton to talk to him about immigration, and mocked her for not taking more interviews.  Jeb Bush (will say) that Clinton can’t be trusted.  Jeb Bush mocked Clinton’s use of a rope line during the Gorham NH Fourth of July parade, as did Carly Fiorina, George Pataki, and Chris Christie.