Was the GOP as europhobic in the Clinton era as they were in the Obama era?

[darklordoftech]

In the Obama era, the GOP fearmongered about Obama wanting to make America like “gun-grabbing socialist Europe”. Did they also do this during the Clinton era?

[Matty]

Probably not, because Bill Clinton governed as a center right executive

[Kingpoleon]

Not really something I heard in the Obama years. We like Europe!

[kcguy]

The GOP was very dismissive of our NATO European allies in the 1990's, due to their paralysis in intervening in the Bosnian civil war.

But on whole, I'd say they were much more hostile to the UN (and the Hague Court) than to specifically just the continent of Europe.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Joe Scarborough ran as an anti-UN Republican in the 1990's.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Yes. Republicans in the 90s were openly running on withdrawing the U.S. from the UN and putting a 5 year moratorium on ALL immigration. To add to all the usual talk about "Socialist Europe" and "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys".