These fresh faces of the GOP aren’t just competing for the nomination, but the brand of their party. Ronald Reagan famously referred to the Republican coalition as a three-legged stool: national security conservatives, libertarian conservatives, and social conservatives. Those stool legs are respectively Rubio, Paul, and Cruz. But as the party has been swept up by neoconservative foreign policy since the Reagan administration, Rubio will struggle to fly that neocon flag higher and prouder while projecting an image of young and new leadership.
Here are five quotes that entrench “uniquely qualified” Rubio in the neocon camp:
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