From Politico:
After demanding for weeks that he be more decisive on Libya, not one candidate in the field of 2012 GOP hopefuls has expressed support for President Barack Obama since he began bombing the North African nation.
The GOP’s presidential prospects either sharply criticized the commander-in-chief this weekend or avoided weighing in.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday afternoon, "It is impossible to make sense of the standard for intervention in Libya except opportunism and news media publicity."
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said Obama waited so long that the United States "may have missed our window of opportunity."
[R]epresentatives of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann did not respond to requests for comment.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour didn’t mention Libya in a long Saturday night speech to California’s Republican convention.
And, naturally, after telling an Indian audience that she wouldn't criticize a U.S. president's foreign policy on foreign soil, Sarah Palin promptly added that had she been president, "certainly there would have been more decisiveness" and "less dithering."
Is there no low, no wholesale absence of self-respect that even this pitiable herd of unremarkable scolds is willing to renounce?
Each of these walking banalities fears above all else that in the race for the GOP nomination, he or she will be unable to distinguish him- or herself from the rest of the unimposing pack. Here was the opportunity, and each has refused to take it. That's how scandalously banal, boring and predictable they are.