Most politicians pander to voters on some issues, even if it means contradicting their previous positions. As he is proud to tell you, Vivek Ramaswamy is not a politician. This apparently means he panders on every issue, not just some, and he contradicts his own positions from just days or weeks ago.

Ramaswamy is now trying to run away from his comments on Taiwan and Israel after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley attacked him on foreign policy at the first GOP presidential debate. Ramaswamy had previously said that he would only defend Taiwan until 2028 because by that point, he would have led America to semiconductor independence, and China would be free to invade Taiwan after that point. That was just two weeks ago, and now he denies that he ever said it.

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On Israel, Ramaswamy has gone from saying that he would like to cut aid to Israel by 2028 to saying Israel “will not require” aid by 2028 to saying that cutting aid to Israel “makes zero sense as a foreign policy priority any time in the foreseeable future.” That transformation did not take course over decades or even years. Those comments were during a span of just 17 days.

You can add these to the long, long list of Ramaswamy’s very recent flip-flops. That list includes calling for the cancellation of Juneteenth just a few months after calling it “a celebration of the American Dream itself,” going from praising former Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6 to distancing himself from that praise, claiming he never voted until 2020 when he did vote in 2004 (and was apparently deciding between three Democrats), and denying that he ever supported a plan for taxpayer-funded mask giveaways during the pandemic when he had done exactly that.

Ramaswamy’s repeated reversals over the last few years, months, and even weeks are an utterly shameless attempt to find a sweet spot in the GOP electorate. He boasts about not being a career politician, and yet his campaign has fit a career’s worth of brazen reversals and contradictions into just about six months. He is nothing more than an empty suit who has no problem insulting the intelligence of GOP voters and hoping they won’t notice because he’s a natural performer in front of the camera.

Ramaswamy does not believe in anything other than his ability to speak to the media. Were he already an elected politician, he would be the scorn of the GOP for his refusal to stand for anything with any level of resolve. He belongs nowhere near the presidency and deserves little of the praise that has been heaped on him as some sort of conservative fighter.

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