Mitt Romney gave a foreign policy speech this morning. It was full of exactly no surprises, although there were a few soundbites that will resonate on TV news outlets all day. Romney tried to mark a difference between himself and President Obama, and he did that mostly by criticizing President Obama’s policies. But after criticizing Obama’s policies, Romney then snuck in the fact that he’ll stand by President Obama’s policies. That resulted in awesome sentences like this one, from a Navy Times recap of the speech:
Romney criticized Obama for a “politically timed retreat” from Afghanistan but said he would maintain the same 2014 deadline the president has set for the pullout of U.S. troops and the transition to Afghan security forces.
I think at this point, Romney’s just trying to appear competent and complain about the president wherever possible. This was a speech that was written for the soundbite, allowing Romney to have another day of looking competent on the news without the fear of an off-the-cuff moment that could turn into a gaffe. It was a speech that nobody in the world could possibly love.
Well, that’s not true. One man did love Romney’s speech, and he even tweeted about it:
I think at this point, Paul Constant knows he is on the losing side and he is cowardly bashing Romney every miserable chance he can get.
It’s not like he is a credible source of information. I just busted him in an outright lie the other day here in the Merc. About Romney, no less. Paul Constant has no ambition to tell the truth or provide any facts to support his venomous accusations.
You guys deserve better than what this sponge has to offer.
I’m so fucking pissed off about all this fucking biased media coverage. I need a fucking source that’s straight-up honest and not fucking bullshit.
No one trolls the plumpest, foulest troll of them all like Paul Constant. Give that man a raise!
Romney and Obama do not differ all that much, though Romney is coming in to office like he is looking for a fight. We do need some fiscal conservation, but with social liberalism.
Live and let live, stay out of each others lives, and a candidate who is going to recognize the valuable cost of changing drug policies around marijuana and looking at it like it is a health issue.
We have that in Gary Johnson http://www.garyjohnson2012.com the people’s president. Mitt and crew are running scared, they might lose the whole darn thing.