welcome to the weekly standard podcast i'm your host michael graham well it's been a newsworthy week uh... around the world of from the ukraine to seriat or on a lot of stuff is happening some of it good for america some of the bad for america but none of it apparently influenced by america that's how it looks to me will ask bill crystal for the weekly standard for his day bill thanks for your time you get rid of it yes so uh... is there anything that president obama could say about anything in the world that other world leaders ago obama to smoke we better watch out the actions of matter i think it's a boy around the world in dealing with a lot of the food in order uh... china or better as well as the degree to which people to well just uh...
a short while before we're speaking here uh... the gipson parley or the cabinet just walk out there's done uh... you know we've got the uh... ukrainians are who are the russian-looking in that end of ukraine looking even more closely at russia and uh...
as you mentioned as well as a total mess and uh... it seems to me that the lessons obvious that when america's week the world is a less good place if i'm listening to us some people in the press they seem to think no president obama's handling exactly the right way now america's right history uh... you know what you think back the greek revolution terror on two thousand nine thousand and then uh... because it's uh...
it's hard and i don't have a concert uh... should we be surprised by the brand-new poll that shows that americans don't think president obama is respected by foreign leaders fifty percent americans say they think leaders of other countries don't have much respect for obama only forty one percent say he is respected or should we be surprised that it's taken us this long or the pollster reflect what seems to be pretty self-evident now but it is a really patriotic and we want to think our president to be in vote for the different policies and i think get to have fifty percent of americans say that that means majority americans think their own president uh... of course most majority americans voters and leaders i mean it's a i think it's a real indictment i think it is one i think it means that republicans deserve one right answer all the cases but to be engaged in it and i think that's what i think i just have much right there all in town they have to do the white house i struck even in his day he does have all the uh... speaking of republican stepping up but Ted Cruz seems to inspire just almost as much debate among republicans as a foreign policy does among other president staff uh...
what's Ted Cruz's current role in the GOP and i've differed with him on on on tactic by other things he said that i think are unfortunate uh... but you know he's not the only one who's made that thing was that he's not the only one who's taken a couple of cheap shots of the fellow hostility to have crazy at the end of the day if you ask me right now everything given everything is out over the year they want to do it it's better we better off it take i didn't see better off conservative really our republic reform ideas for future governance but i i i gotta say i hear all this care attack well you know i i to me the the combination the republicans need is passion and strategy you've got to have enough you know uh... passion to move people because we don't have the kind of organized you know uh... special interest or kind of group driven voting so you got to mobilize the passion people and then give them something smart to do and the idea that you want to chase away the guy who's tapped into that passion you're you're crazy that that's the engine that moves the car now what i do i want him driving the car right now maybe not but then you've got to have that engine i don't know if the establishment understands that they didn't they learn from 2012 that there are absolutely are people who will stay home if you say to them you have to accept a you know uninspiring choice part of being an establishment is that you don't learn anything or you learn very very slowly and very reluctantly i think that's the case with the republic establishment uh...
you're absolutely right there's a good analogy but look you can have a lot of passion you can improve your strategy and when i keep pointing out to the session types is when they talk about horrible uh... you know the filibuster on obama care and the debt and this kind of shut down is if the establishment had a plan for something to do as you know the crystal plan you know connect a couple of really unpleasant ideas to the uh... to the to the obama position and make the obama the democrats make them defend them then the grassroots would have been happy they would have joyously celebrated the execution of plan their passion would have been up but instead the establishment we got nothing and that left a whole gap that i think needed to be filled dead crews kept people motivated and mobilized who might have pulled another 2012 and said to you guys you're never gonna get this right you're never gonna care about me i'm not gonna care about you either yeah i think a lot of them will run won't quite be as much as that crews will be a little less that strong but i think you're absolutely right that the challenge to do that that was just about parties to really stand up what you believe in that thing and one of the things i get to hear because i come on the grassroots level of tea party folks is they want to be smart they're not you know this notion that they're looking for the chance to die on the beach just to prove you know their position there's always a couple people like that every group but they love the idea that their passion can be turned in a smart direction and they keep looking for leadership to say here's the smart way to do it and instead what they get is they feel like there's a lot of abuse of well if you're you're a bunch of dummies you don't even really know what you're doing you're hurting the party we don't want you around use or or kind of patronizing you're not able to take care of that couple months get back to what the debt ceiling that's what we're going to fight with against or not fighting on that i think it was prudent probably not to fight the death only but it is not really smart to tell people three months ago we're gonna battle we're gonna fight and then two two days before the fight without explaining any strategy going forward well the uh i think the republican voters are ready to join you to to be part of a mobilization and make 2014 a historic year but we need some smarter people leading them at the top that's why i'm nominating bill crystal for king of republicans yeah that's getting a lot of that's getting a lot of the source without there i'm sure a lot of a lot of people i've heard from three other people who support me only one of them has been previously institutionalized so i've got this bill that's good to my wife on the phone too but she wouldn't support it's what i might be saying that bill crystal thanks for joining us for the weekly standard we really appreciate it