Palin hires new foreign policy adviser

Governor Sarah Palin, who I believe will run for president in 2012, made a move in her foreign policy team.

According to Politico, Peter Schweizer, a writer and fellow at the Hoover Institution, known for his blog posts at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace site, is the latest hire by Palin.

The personnel shift carries an ideological charge. Scheunemann, the former executive director of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, is a longtime neoconservative stalwart, as is Goldfarb, a former reporter and protege of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol. They crafted for Palin a policy platform and voice reflecting an eagerness to use American force. The pair, who helped Palin with press and debate prep in 2008, were also something of Palin’s last link to Washington’s political establishment.

Schweizer is known to be more conservative about the use of force abroad and is skeptical about US involvement in Libya.

He worked as a partner for former Vice President Dick Cheney aide Marc Theissen in a speechwriting and has written many books on Bush, Reagan, and foreign policy.