I'm A Conservative Republican. I Have Been

America Needs An Adult In The White House Who Knows How To Deal With China.

The European Arguments Against The Iran-libya Sanctions Act Demonstrate That "some Europeans Have Never Lost Faith In Appeasement As A Way Of Life. It Is Clear That Iran Is Cynically Manipulating Gullible (or Equally Cynical) Europeans To Advance Its Development Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

By Creating A Prosecutor Who Is Overseen Over By A Court, They Are Melding Executive And Judicial Power In A Way That Can Lead To Terrible Abuses - As The Founders Of America Understood Full Well. It's Why They Created A System Of Separated Powers - To Set Up A Constitutional Mechanism That Would Enhance Freedom, By Making Sure That No One's Accumulation Of Power Could Predominate Over [that Of] Others.

I'm Not Saying That You Need A State Department That Looks Like The Litigation Department Of A Major Law Firm. But You Need People Who Are Not Afraid To Make The Case For The United States, Who Are Not Afraid To Stand Their Ground, Not Afraid To Be Isolated In International Organizations When That's The Correct Approach For Our Diplomacy. This Is A Cultural Change That Has To Be Effected Through Incentive Systems, Promotion Systems, Career Training Systems. This Is Not Something That You Can Do With The Stroke Of A Magic Wand, It's Going To Take Years To Make This Change.

Although We Refer To The International Criminal Court, The Real Problem Is The Prosecutor, Because It's The Prosecutor Who Decides Who To Investigate And What Cases To Bring. This Court Fundamentally Embodied A Potential For Abuse Of Governmental Power That I Felt Was Inconsistent With Being A Free Person - And [it Was] Inconsistent For A Free Country Like The United States To Subscribe To It.