on so many fronts, I admit foreign policy has not been at the top of my list. But think about it...Romney has absolutely NO experience on this very important issue. None. Just look at his feeble attempt to score a few points on yesterday's (minor) 'open mic' discussion. He can't get the nomination to save his life but Russia's president is already having to push back on him for heaven's sake! What a total loser.
Here is a link to a DailyKos diary from yesterday. Good food for thought.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/24/1077488/-Romney-s-first-presidential-test-fraught-with-peril-and-my-case-for-Jim-DeMint-?detail=hide
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2. Romney's choice will have to have foreign policy experience.
Here is where things get tricky. Because Romney himself has no foreign policy experience, his first task is to choose a vice president who has some. This is almost always the case in every winning presidential ticket. If the top of the ticket is light on foreign policy, as it often is, they make it up on the bottom. Reagan/Bush, Clinton/Gore, Obama/Biden.
The only way the top of the ticket can nominate a VP without foreign policy experience is if he himself has it. As was the case with Bush/Quale, Kerry/Edwards, and McCain/Palin.
The problem for Romney is that there are no national republicans of note who have foreign policy experience who are also recognized conservatives that excite the base. All of the current mentions—be it Govs. McDonnell, Christie or Daniels—all have no foreign policy experience at all. Marco Rubio has but one year on the foreign relations committee. Speaking of which, there are some Republican members of that committee that could make for possible Republican vice presidential nominees. The problem is those members are also some of the most far-right members of the GOP leadership: Jim DeMint, James Inhofe, or Johnny Isakson. Perhaps the only dark horse in the bunch is Bob Corker. But none of these folks are distinguished Republican foreign policy heavyweights. Furthermore, only DeMint has a national constituency as well as five years on the committee.
Foreign Policy. We win.
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