The Issue: Critiques of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's comments at the Munich Security Conference.
The Democrats sent Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Germany for a security conference ("AOC's Munich Bomb," Rich Lowry, PostOpinion, Feb. 17).
Were these the best people they have to offer? What -- did Moe, Curly and Larry turn them down?
AOC's performance overseas displayed her incompetence and inability to learn the issues. It is not a good look for her political aspirations, but more important, she should leave the study abroad and begin to tackle the problems for her constituents in her Bronx district.
It was interesting to see how so many international dignitaries at the Munich Security Conference twisted their faces in agony during AOC's remarks as if they were trying to understand a language that none of them heard before.
For starters, I was not at all surprised by her "word salad" offerings. But I thought the best were the spoken words of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
But I cannot for the life of me in any way, shape or form figure out what these two sorry excuses for Americans had to say.
AOC and Newsom had no business going overseas and commenting on anything. Their states are falling apart at the seams and they're taking taxpayer-funded vacations.
New Yorkers and Californians -- are you watching? You elected these two morons into office.
This is basically a preliminary to the Democrats' 2028 presidential primaries. We can look forward to watching them eat each other when the time comes.
There may be no one happier about AOC's Munich meltdown than Sen. Chuck Schumer, who likely took considerable comfort in her absolutely clueless performance on the world stage at the Munich Conference.
The vulnerable senator must be considering how badly the Ocasio-Cortez geopolitical face-plant would hurt her chances if she opted to challenge him in New York's 2028 Democratic Senate primary.
The speech he gave in Munich which may in fact be the best speech I've heard from any statesman in the last decade or since Ronald Reagan proclaimed, "tear down this wall."
There's a shift happening in Europe for sure, but the European Union is doing all it can to keep its "one world order" in place. With that speech, Rubio put himself high on the list of people who can replace President Trump.
In Munich, Marco Rubio eloquently stressed the deep Western civilizational ties that bind America and Europe together.
He also disabused the administration's critics of their panicky claim that it seeks to tear apart the transatlantic alliance in favor of a spheres-of-influence new world order.
Rubio's tough love was a refreshing counterpoint to the European elites' gullible acceptance of the "end of history" chimera following the collapse of Soviet communism and their swallowing of French political philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon's enervating suggestion that the only thing that can save the West from shipwreck is "the very Christian sentiment of guilt."