The panelists sat on stage before a table, with several hundred campaign delegates, press, present and former Republican officials, and foreign diplomats in attendance. The graying heavy-set Williamson, who looks like former Secretary of State Richard Eagleburger, would probably not fill a high post in a Romney administration, but he is perfect for this campaign, because he can, if necessary, take the edge off Romney’s more bald assertions. National Security Policy.” The speakers consisted of four Romney foreign policy advisors, led by Richard Williamson, a former Reagan administration official who was also one of McCain’s principal surrogates in the 2008 campaign. It held a meeting at an auditorium in Tampa on “The Future of U.S. Run by a former John McCain aide Lorne Cramer, it exemplifies the non-problematic side of Republican neo-conservatism-the emphasis on encouraging democratic movements in authoritarian or formerly authoritarian countries through education and training. The main session on foreign policy was hosted by the International Republican Institute, which Congress established in 1983 along with its partisan twin, the National Democratic Institute. Certainly, Romney drew these kind of conclusions in his campaign book, No Apology: the Case for American Greatness, and his White Paper on foreign policy that he issued last October that intimated a struggle for supremacy against Russia (America’s “number one geopolitical foe”), China, and Iran and the “violent jihadists.” (See my article.)īut at the convention, the campaign was careful not to draw any controversial conclusions from these philosophical musings about American greatness. It could suggest a more unilateral approach to foreign policy and a willingness to impose our will upon adversaries and challengers. But it also could have operational consequences. It echoes campaign themes that Reagan used in 1980 against Carter and George H. It emphasizes the Mormon candidate’s American-ness and the President’s foreign-ness – certainly more effectively than by raising questions about his birth certificate. The Romney campaign clearly likes the politics of American exceptionalism. This is a great country, the greatest country that has ever existed on the planet.” And the theme is being repeated by speaker after speaker. My Dad understands this is an exceptional place. “He keeps looking to Europe for inspiration. “Obama goes around the world apologizing.” “President Obama doesn’t see what an amazing place this is,” Romney’s son Josh told a breakfast meeting. “Barack Obama has totally trashed the Ronald Reagan city on the hill,” former Senator Kit Bond told the Missouri caucus Tuesday morning. Romney is seen as Reagan Obama as Carter.
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