Romney Attacks Democrats Lack Of Experience in Foreign Policy
If nothing else, Mitt Romney is a perpetual irony machine. Yesterday, Romney added to his legend by proclaiming that his three leading Democratic opponents - all U.S. Senators - lack his foreign policy experience. More ironic still, the one-term governor and international affairs neophyte leveled the charge while speaking in Midland, Texas, home of one George W. Bush. [..]
Sadly for Mitt Romney, his own cavalcade of foreign policy missteps, misunderstandings and comical gaffes show him to be not ready for prime time on the world stage. In April, for example, Romney downplayed the important of capturing Osama Bin Laden, declaring, "It's not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person." Playing to the crowd at a GOP debate just one week later, Romney pulled a 180, promising of the Al Qaeda chief, "He's going to pay, and he will die."
That stumble came just weeks after Romney's short-lived campaign to target state pension funds with investments in companies doing business with Iran. On February 22, Romney sent letters to Democratic leaders including New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton as well as state comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli urging a policy of "strategic disinvestment from companies linked to the Iranian regime." But as the AP quickly detailed, Romney's former employer (Bain & Co.) and the company he founded (Bain Capital) have recent links to recent Iranian business deals. Apparently missing the irony, Romney responded by saying of his Iran disinvestment PR scheme, "this is something for now-forward."
But Mitt Romney's most misguided - and dangerous - pronouncements concern the greatest American foreign policy and national security challenge of our age. In May, Romney anointed himself as the leading proponent of "conflation" in the war against Al Qaeda. Alarmingly and erroneously equating Sunni and Shiite, the guilty and the innocent, Romney claimed he has more than Osama Bin Laden in his crosshairs. Read on...
Ever heard of glass houses, Mitt? I guess it's to his advantage that his supporters would be culled from those who don't tend to examine bold claims too closely. Along the same lines, Matt Taibbi calls Iraq the issue that Republican candidates can't keep dodging and hope to win, but I don't think Matt has accounted for your average FOXNews viewer.
Gosh, I had NO IDEA the Mittster was SOOOOOO experienced in foreign policy! I'll bet he negotiated lots of treaties in that one term as governor. I'll bet he worked closely with foreign allies in that one term as governor. I'll bet....
Oh, crud. It's late in the day and my sarcasm is failing me.
Love the Halo-effect coming off Mitt's noggin in that photo...
This from a moron who supported and still supports a Doofus who messed with Iraq before he could find it on a map and only learnt about the Sunnis and Shia three years into the war against the people of Iraq?
Give Me A Freaking Break.
Well now wait a minute, didn't he visit Canada on that fateful trip involving the dog strapped to the roof of the car? Doesn't that count for something?
Yes, being in bed with the IOC is adequate foreign policy experience.....
If you think it over, I think W had more foreign policy experience in that the Saudis and other foreign businessmen were always using him to meet his dad.
“It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
Why weren't you saying that in the run-up to the Iraq war?
That's what we've been saying all along concerning Saddam Hussein.
"Playing to the crowd at a GOP debate just one week later, Romney pulled a 180, promising of the Al Qaeda chief, “He’s going to pay, and he will die.”
Romney is not only inexperienced, he is mentally defective if he cannot remember what his policies are from one week to the next. What a joke.
In the first Republican "debate" Romney stated that IF Saddam had allowed the inspectors to come into Iraq, we would not have had to invade.
He is running for president and does know the inspectors were there? Unbelievable....
Best video on Youtube over this phoney...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
Most amusing vid on Multiple Mitt Flopney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_AG4jo6wiA
..and here's a video from a doughy little Republitard so in love with Romney, he created an ENTIRE series on Youtube! Think this ninny needs a life or what?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDH1SiRNr_Q
Tubby looks like 'Cousin Oliver' here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_W9H4_08o
Here was pudgy's little hatchet job on the Dems, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O17TJIB6M7I
Willard is losing big time.
Tweety is bashing wingnuts on Hardball.
Good stuff.
I can not even look at Romney without my mind conjuring a sleazeball image of some lowlife trying to peddle snake oil. This man is downright scary.
Mitt is truthy.
All the more evidence: Romney is a Fraud
What have republicans' foreign policy brought us? Terrorism! No -- wait! That's the domestic policy.....Whoops! My bad......
Hmmmmm. Has Mitt ever taken an IQ test? I'm serious. He seems to be a little slow on the up take.
ROTFLMFAO ......
This from the party who while in the whitehouse has shown great Diplomatic strength? ... I'm gaggin here...
draft avoider turned lazy son enabler turned dog abuser turned flip flopper Mitt will say anything to get "street cred" with the LGFers
t-bone @ 4:
Yes, That was a bitch of a story though.
getalife @ 10:
yeah, tweety was pretty good tonight... Looks like KO will be also.
How does he figure that three Senators, one of which spent 8 years in the White House, have less experience than him? As far as I can tell the 2 leading GOP candidates have very little foreign experience, and what they claim as their area of expertise is the one thing that they have completely failed to comprehend.
Rommey's probably the biggest bullshitter to ever seek the presidency of the United States. The fact that he's running is a testament of the dumbing down of America's political discourse.
AnthonyMason2k5 @ 20:
Any guy who spends that much time in front of mirrors doing his hair and grooming is too shallow for my taste. All these GOP dogs look like Fundy Preacher types.
The mormon calling the baptist black.
Will the induhvidual with the least fraud and most integrity please stand up, we might want to elect you! (thinking Ralph Nader here).
Unfortunately, corporate funders, coincidentally, might also want you assassinated for not supporting their industries.
Is Texas foreign? Maybe.
But that was the extent of George Bush Jr's experience in foreign policy before he showed us all that he could screw up a large portion of it.
AnthonyMason2k5 @ 20:
The first liar dosen't have a chance. There is too much competition.
Romney is only his nickname. His real name is Romneybush.
These so called neocons see terrorist behind every bush and it scares the shit out of them. Dems need to expose their fear everyday at every opportunity to show the American people how Rethugs hide behind our brave soldiers. They preach fear daily because they are afraid. I would love to see a fire cracker thrown at the feet of some of these chicken shits to see who literally pisses their pants.
Who said the Republics don't have an ironic sense of humor?
Tell me another, Mitty, I'm dying here!
Oh this is good. This one is going to come back and bite him on the ass big time and I can hardly wait.
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You know the peculiar thing for me in all of this, is that for the Bush admin and its cronies to go to sleep at night they'd have to not believe in an after-life or God being the ultimate judge, either that or be completely out of touch with reality. Because for them to bullshit us for this long, with the cost being other human beings (whether it's Iraqi's or Us service people) for their mistakes and refusal to admit mistakes, means that they do not believe in God or an afterlife, because if they did, they'd know they were going straight to hell.
TTFD
Roger Bixley @ 2:
I wonder if it's the same photographer that loved putting the halo on bush. There's a photo of bush with the putzidential seal behind him, and his hand is in the exact same position.
Snake-oil selling faux preacher android.
As Obama said on 'The Daily Show', the current administration is supposed to have decades of foreign policy experience and look where that got us.
Who the hell would want to run as a Repug for President in 2008 anyway? Who wants to get up and say, let's keep going Bush's biggest disaster of a presidency for four more years?
29 TTFD Says:
Great point, Bush and Co. have so much BLOOD on their hands that could have easily been avoided, by just telling the truth. How in the Hell do they believe they are doing Gods work or will ever be forgiven. This war is so wrong it makes me sick.
can you imagine what would happen if a demo had to debate a pug at this point? no current gop candidate except ron paul could show up. the others would be laughed off the stage if their opponent had only a one page sheet on the absurd statements that any of these twits have made.
OK, Mitt is doing a great Chevy Chase impersonation. He's got the whole dim-witted thing down pat.
I've said it once and I'll say it again, Democrats don't understand foreign policy. Just look at Clinton vs. Bush. Bush is sacrificing troops, sweat, a long term wrinkle in his forehead and his own career for this country, while Clinton stayed in the house and played light my cigar with Lewinsky. At least Bush visits the troops in Iraq. What has Clinton done?
Mitt's right, Democrats don't understand foreign policy. Go Mitt.
What a twit. The Republicans deserve him to be their nominee
I'm sure Mitt has the best foreign policy experience. Mitt has such great judgment too, just ask Seamus. LMAO!
a guy @ 36:
Mitt the twit? :D
Ignominious_Bush @ 18:
I loved how he took on guest Buzz Patterson's reference to America having troops in Korea, Japan, and Germany as justification for having troops in Iraq for the next 50 years. Did you see Patterson's dancing around the issue?
John Wayne Al-Masri @ 35:
You are using the "war" on terror as evidence of Bush's crowning achievement in foreign policy? Oh dear God. Bush had NO foreign policy experience going into the presidency in 2000. Other than his reaction to 9/11, what is it in his prior experience as governor and college cheerleader makes you think he would have been better than any prior president? Certainly his unmatched knowledge of world leaders in 1999 is at the top of your list.
Dems lack experience in foreign policy?! What the f$ck are YOU talkin' about Mitt? You got experience?! Didn't think so!!
And if you're talking about the foreign policy that's got America into this quagmire of $hit it's in, then you really need to STFU. It's time for a new paradigm... what's been done up to now isn't working!
Romney must not be familiar with Senator Richard Nixon, who arguably had one of the best foreign policy programs of any modern president.
Also, Romney's comments about Senators not being able to have an effective foreign policy is a slap in the face to every Senator who as served in Congress since the Senate was created by our founding fathers. I suppose in all foreign policy decisions this country has made in the last 200+ years, the Senate has not had any input or effect whatsoever.
Romney, you are an A-1 asshole.
Lest We Forget:
"As the Vietnam War raged in the 1960s, Mitt Romney received a deferment from the draft as a Mormon “minister of religion” for the duration of his missionary work in France, which lasted two and a half years.
Before and after his missionary deferment, Romney also received nearly three years of deferments for his academic studies. When his deferments ended and he became eligible for military service in 1970, he drew a high number in the annual lottery that determined which young men were drafted. His high number ensured he was not drafted into the military…
“By serving as a missionary and being given the deferment, Romney ensured that he would not be drafted from July 1966 until February 1969. Romney’s draft record from the time describes him as “minister of religion or divinity student.” Mayo said the church would have considered Romney a minister.
Romney, who has said he would have served if he had been drafted, shed some light on his view of the matter in a recent interview with the Globe.
“I really don’t recall thinking about political positions when I was knocking at the door in France” as a missionary, Romney said. “I was supportive of my country. I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”
right on! @ 41:
Sure Romney has experience. He was, after all, president and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics. How many Senators can claim that?
“I really don’t recall thinking about political positions when I was knocking at the door in France” as a missionary, Romney said. “I was supportive of my country. I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there and in some ways it was frustrating not to feel like I was there as part of the troops that were fighting in Vietnam.”
Then why didn't Romney just sign up for military service instead of waiting to be drafted? What an ass and a bullshitter.
Romney, from the Perrspectives article, linked above:
"Sitting on committees in Washington does not guarantee that someone has the skills to solve the problems on the international stage. In those three cases, you have people who have never really led or managed a substantial enterprise. They learned how to speak well and they learned how to ask good questions at hearings and how to receive briefings. But the role of being a leader and manager of a state, of a city, of an Olympics, of a business, of an enterprise is entirely different than sitting in a hearing chair."
Mitt Romney disturbs me more than any other candidate. As much as I dislike Ghouliani, and think he would tie for worst-president-ever, if elected, Mitt is so out to lunch it gives me nightmares to think of him as president. What foreign policy experience? The Olympics? He saw all kinds of brown-skinned types then. His expertise in imported habberdashery; is it blue or black; hard to tell with the good stuff. Aqua Velva or Old Spice today; the big question.
Unfortunately, in saying that with Hillary C. having a 6 pt lead over Giuliani, Giuliani would lose, Matt is failing to take into account the rampant election fraud at which the Republican machine has become so well practiced since 2000. Any Dem is going to need a good 10% or more edge to have a chance to overcome Repugs' manipulation of election results, now made child's play by their good friends at Diebold.
Oh sure, Romney's a hypocrite. But, look at that jaw! And that hair!
That's a jaw that a guy could drink a beer with, and isn't that what foreign policy and presidentin' is all about?
Oh yeah just what we need an ueducated expert on things that only the uneducated can determine.
Hows that magic underawear working for you Mitt?
At least Dems don't have a foreign policy of "destroy anyone who makes you so afraid you shit in your pants"
His foreign policy experience consists of running away to France to avoid serving in Vietnam.
WC @ 42:
I was being faceeeeeeeeeeetious. Hello? Is this thing on? Anyone? Anyone?
I thought, "a long term wrinkle in his forehead" would have given that away. No?
and Romney knows ..... exactly what .... about foreign policy?
lol
Yeah that's just what this country needs, four more years of GOP fiscal brilliance; foreign policy genius; and constitutional reverence.
Will the dolts bite again? With the Dems as the opposition, I'd say it's about 50-50.
Ahhh, it must be nice to be so rich to waste all that campaign money just to lose.
t-bone @ 4:
LOL!
Roger Bixley @ 2:
Exactly, another Jesus picture.
Jesus, save me from these christian zombies.
mam @ 50:
Well, if the 18-25 yr olds would actually put down the herb & voted, Diebold couldn't make any difference. They cost Kerry Ohio and the presidency.
moktar @ 60:
"Jesus of Nazareth got a tourist visa and snuck into the nativity scene on Capitol Hill" ™
Another guy who can't tout his own qualifications.
So talk bad of others.
Does the Mormon religion teach lying of others to hide ones own inadequacy(s)?
Plus he's got 4 wives and he shot a bunch of women and children who were passing through his town.
Hahahahahahahaha!
TF-MA @ 57:
I will grant you that the foreign policy will get better with the dems at the helm. It will get better no matter who is in office as long as it is not Bush. I cannot stand seeing the utter lack of decorum that Bush has with other world leaders.
I know one thing for certain and that is that fiscally speaking the dems will do no better than the tax-cut-and-spend repubs. The repubs have not shown that they are fiscally responsible. The dems won't do it either; they are beholden to the special interests as well. Both parties use ear-marks to garner political favor and waste billions of dollars every year. They will increase our taxes in a failed attempt to pay for Medicare and Social Security and every other government program they want to keep, expand, or create. We can't afford it unless we tax ourselves into oblivion - that is what the dems and repubs do not want to tell you. Tough times ahead folks. The sub-prime meltdown is only the beginning.
KCThinker @ 66:
I feel your pain.
OH MY GOD! The utter embarrassment and disgrace this man has colored the character of the USA in the eyes of the world with his interaction with world leaders. It will be many years, probably generations to overcome this IDIOT stigma if we even can.
Just a few incidents that come to mind:
He mis-speaks (as usual) and calls the Queen of England a 230 yr old lady, then chuckles and winks at her.
Bush grabs and tugs on the coat sleeve of the Prime Minister of China on the White House lawn to place him where he wants him to stand for some picture. If you saw the photo the man looks utterly disgusted.
He sneaks up and molests the German Chancellor and massages her as he enters the room. She's all fucked up in her reaction.
He tells the Australian whoever "WE'RE KICKING ASS!" and then thanks the country for the Austrian troops in Iraq.
And my favorite:
"I've heard he's been called Bush's poodle. He's bigger than that." --George W. Bush, on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as quoted by the Sun newspaper, June 27, 2007
CraigJohnson @ 67:
And bear in mind... these are our allies. Just imagine what our enemies must think of the USA because this ABSOLUTE MORON is president of the United States.
NEVER FORGET!
Okay, mitten, the cats out of the bag. you can go back to your Mormoron faith now because there's no romney for you here, betch!
People need to know the REAL reason the US dollar is at an all time low.
The USA has become a laughing stock. A nation of fools. This is how other countries view us as a result of Bush winning 2 terms. I don't blame them. Most people I meet in real life are not thinkers like the comrades I have in my cyber world.
Now we are seeing the damage from decades of poor schools and greed.
I'm ready to move to a country where I am not surrounded by greedy self centered short sighted fat idiots. No offense people... but I need to get away from all these bad vibes.
With Bush as our leader for 8 years the damage is so severe...
I think it's a safe bet that George Sr. strongly regrets he ever helped his idiot son become president.
And someone please remind me just what kind of experience old Mitt has in foreign policy or what kind George Bush had the first time he ran. Sadly, Bush had one of the most experienced "teams" in the history of our country and screwed things royally. Mitt really oughta be careful. The Repukes don't have much of a record on anything successful.
John Wayne Al-Masri @ 55:
WC @ 73:
Let's try that again, without the italics...
Sorry. The wrinkle in his forehead did make me stop...just for a second...but the rest of your post kinda overpowered it!
The public is pretty f***ing stupid these days, so I think Mitt Romney could
be elected. A 50/50 chance seems about right to me.
I don't care what the polls says, the (not-so-smart) public elected Bush in
2004, so anything is possible.
CraigJohnson @ 71:
Hey it was his DNA that created his doofus son.
Abby @ 3:
I agree.
Mitt your party has any credible recent experience and verifiable success at foreign policy?
LOL!
Bain? The strategy consulting firm? You've got to be kidding. I always suspected that strategy consulting firms were charlatans, but this seals it. The man has not had one insightful thing to say in this entire campaign.
That dickhead just doesn't get it.
And Romney is an expert?
Is the Man doing Stand Up Comedy in place of anything original to say?
Is this some kind of sick comedy routine, or what? It's funny because, see, Bush/Cheney have no...Oh forget it!
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