Romney’s Central Foreign Policy Attack Against Obama Unravels

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Romney’s Central Foreign Policy Attack Against Obama Unravels

Evan McMorris-Santoro

Undergirding Mitt Romney’s trip to Europe and Israel this week was a single concept: President Obama has weakened the view of America in the eyes of foreign leaders thanks to a policy of appeasement and “apology.” How the world views America is important, Romney said, and he’s going to see to it that America’s reputation overseas is bolstered on his watch.

Within 24 hours of Romney landing abroad, that premise had unraveled and Romney’s own top surrogates were scoffing at the notion that foreign opinions of America mattered at all to American voters.

Romney undermined his own message even before he left for London, when he told a fundraiser audience in San Francisco Sunday night that America was in decline, and that the foreign minister of Australia had told him so (the foreign minister denied he put it just that way).

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That’s Romney making it crystal clear that headlines overseas are pretty important here in the U.S. At his big VFW speech a couple days later, Romney attacked Obama relentlessly for wrecking America’s reputation overseas.

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/mitt-romney-london-foreign-opinion.php

Plenty Of ‘I Told You So’ To Go Around

David Kurtz

Sympathy today for the adviser(s) at Romney HQ in Boston who thought the foreign trip was a bad idea to begin with because anything that takes the attention off the economy is a miscalculation. If I were in the same office with them, I might quietly hide sharp objects, bound briefing books, and anything else that could be used as a weapon.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/07/plenty_of_i_told_you_so_to_go_around.php

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