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MrScorpio

(73,772 posts)
5. The next Presidential debate is on foreign policy
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:34 PM
Oct 2012

Mitt, of course, will dial back his insanely chicken hawk, neocon ideas and try to sound reasonable. He will to do the same thing that he did the last time and pivot so that his positions practically mirrors the President own.

The President should just thank Mitt for recognizing his leadership in foreign policy matters. Mitt can't criticize the President from the right, because that will make everyone realize that he's planning on exploding the Pentagon budget, when the President has effectively fought off the nation's enemies without looking like a warmonger.

Mitt will accuse the President of abandoning Eastern Europe by not putting in defense missile systems. The President needs to remind Romney that the Cold War is over and Russia is not our enemy.

And most of all, Romney really has no stomach for foreign policy matters at all. He's going to give the President plenty of opportunities to reply, The President just needs to send those softball out of the park.

I think that the next debate will be a world of difference in the outcome.

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