Liberal Magazine New Republic: "Romney Was Right"

[deacon blues]

It's amazing how clear it was to many of us that Romney would've been a FAR CRY better as president than our current president. As this second term unfolds we see the long term effects of a presidency without experience and a presidency with a vision that is out of the mainstream ideologically. Too many cavalierly act as though bad presidencies can birth better ones so who cares who gets elected. But so much damage can be done in the process that some things will be irrevocably changed. I fear we have a momentum that can never be turned back.

Well even a liberal magazine, the New Republic, is admitting Romney was right when he stated that Russia was our biggest geopolitical threat. Obama made fun of him in the debate "the 80s called and what it's foreign policy back" our president sarcastically declared to the laughter of many. "The Cold War is over" the smartest man in the world announced.

Well now we see the truth. Romney was right, Obama was wrong, and the president is too proud to admit it. Here's the NR article:

In the course of the last presidential campaign, Mitt Romney made a comment about America's number one "geopolitical foe," which Romney claimed was Russia. He was mocked by the president and many liberal commentators. Here are Romney's remarks, in their full context, which came during a conversation with Wolf Blitzer:

ROMNEY: Russia...is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe. They fight every cause for the world's worst actors.

BLITZER: But you think Russia is a bigger foe right now than, let's say, Iran or China or North Korea? Is that—is that what you're suggesting, Governor?

ROMNEY: Well, I'm saying in terms of a geopolitical opponent, the nation that lines up with the world's worst actors. Of course, the greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

But when these—these terrible actors pursue their course in the world and we go to the United Nations looking for ways to stop them, when—when Assad, for instance, is murdering his own people, we go—we go to the United Nations, and who is it that always stands up for the world's worst actors? It is always Russia, typically with China alongside.

And—and so in terms of a geopolitical foe, a nation that's on the Security Council, that has the heft of the Security Council and is, of course, a—a massive nuclear power, Russia is the—the geopolitical foe.

This all seems...exactly right.

[Carl]

Yep! While Obama was busy chasing down a few terrorists in Afghanistan with drones the rest of the world was being ignored. Without a definite foreign policy the administration does not know how to respond.

[n david]

I agree. It appears the only one who didn't see this coming is the guy who has daily briefings, which he skips, and has more information at his fingertips than anyone else....the president.

But he's too busy playing golf, taking vacations and touring around the country trying to get support for his failed healthcare plan.

[n david]

Of course, let's be real.... virtually anyone would've been better than the guy currently squatting in the Oval Office.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Romney was right about Russia.

Some ask, "If Romney had been elected, what would he have done differently"?

To that, I respond, Russia probably wouldn't have felt at ease enough to annex Crimea if Romney was President.

[Disciple4life]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Romney was right about Russia.

Some ask, "If Romney had been elected, what would he have done differently"?

To that, I respond, Russia probably wouldn't have felt at ease enough to annex Crimea if Romney was President.

Countries feared Reagan!