'NO nation in its right mind would put its foreign policy in the hands of the Romney who showed up'

[kpete]

There is no nation in its right mind that would put its foreign policy in the hands of the Willard Romney who showed up on stage here in Boca Raton on Monday night, particularly since he had so clearly abandoned everything else he believed on the subject for the purpose of fronting himself as a moderate in order to run out the clock over the next three weeks. He knew nothing and said less. But the debate will be scored as no better than a tie because, well, all the options are too miserable to contemplate. I think if Romney had called for drone strikes on the headquarters of the National Education Association, he might take 47 states. Especially if he couched the raid as a deficit-reduction scheme or an attempt at education "reform."

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-foreign-policy-debate-14005209#ixzz2A7unyyrC

[BumRushDaShow]

1. It's sad that the "tie" crap continues. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Hopefully it will drive up turnout for us.

[el_bryanto]

2. Yeah - but . . . wasn't one key point of the debate how much Romney agreed with Obama's

Foreign Policy? Even Obama commented on it.

Bryant

[WinkyDink]

3. Except for the insane moments when he did not.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Yes, last night he did agree. As opposed to all those other times before this when

he did not.

This was not a case of evolution on the issues, just pandering.

[porphyrian]

5. . n/t

[mnhtnbb]

7. Excellent read. Thanks for posting.

[reformist2]

8. You know Repugs have lost when they cede foreign policy to Obama, and say economy is all that matter

[jsmirman]

9. That article is ill-timed whinging

You know, the causes of my life are the things that weren't mentioned.

But bullshit like this is symptomatic of a dangerous lack of realism, and it infected the msnbc set last night until it sunk in that Barack had really, really kicked Willard's ass.

Here's the reality: Romney did tell us last night and over the last three debates what he plans to do. And that includes the unconsidered, unrestrained, unceasing molestation and destruction of the land and all our natural treasures. A fully unrestrained and unceasing open season for the banks to molest and destroy our economy.

When I read shit like this, I get the distinct suspicion that these people don't care as much as I do about these issues.

Because one paragraph is not enough to state was has been so blatantly obvious for a very long time: Obama may be imperfect, and his policies on the environment, bank regulation, and animal welfare (to take three things I care deeply about) have fallen far short of many of our desires. BUT MITT ROMNEY WOULD BE AN IRREVERSIBLE DISASTER ON ALL THESE COUNTS.

A thoughtless plutocrat whose only plan is to throw open the gates of our treasury and our lands and our resources, who showed himself to be completely unfit to guide our foreign policy, last night, and again and again is one of the greatest threats our nation and this world have ever faced. And the story of last night and the debate before that is that not only did Barack Obama thoroughly kick Mitt Romney's ass, but Romney was thoroughly exposed as guilty of the accusations above.

To whine about what you didn't get rather than celebrating the work that was done in these last two debates to beat back the scourge that is Romney - well, it strikes me as the work of a doctrinaire windbag or a whinging absolutist who carps about the scenery while walking toward the edge of the cliff.

In summary, my dear Mr. Pierce, STOP WHINING AND SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[JBoy]

10. "Romney sounded like he was taking history at one of those Jesus-on-a-dinosaur middle schools"