Some may think Mitt Romney is not a team player. Perhaps. But on one point he was right: Russia.
FNC: “Nearly 10 years ago, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scolded his future opponent for telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev he’d have more ‘flexibility’ toward the country after his election.
‘This is to Russia, this is, without question, our number one geopolitical foe,’ he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on March 26, 2012. ‘They fight every cause for the world’s worst actors. The idea that [President Barack Obama] has some more flexibility in mind for Russia is very, very troubling, indeed.’
While the Russia comment was ripped by Democrats and the media as a gaffe underscoring Romney’s foreign policy inexperience at the time, it’s viewed now as prescient. It’s also seen by critics as a stark example of the mainstream press echoing Democratic talking points, particularly in light of subsequent years of fervent Russiagate media coverage and bellicose actions by autocratic Russian leader Vladimir Putin, like this week’s invasion of Ukraine.”
This is your reminder that Romney was right about Russia. pic.twitter.com/MqwztaGAtq
— Ed Tarnowski (@edtarnowski) February 21, 2022
“You don’t call Russia our No. 1 enemy unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War mind warp,” Obama said. What an idiot.
The liberal press, of course, bent knee to Obama. “Mitt Romney rather unproductively distracted everyone from focusing on the critique he was making of President Obama,” Eric Randall wrote in The Atlantic. The Boston Globe said that Romney “seems intent on screaming ‘fire’ in a crowded theater, even if his audience doesn’t seem to be responding. He should choose his words more wisely. Diplomacy, far more than campaigning, requires finesse.”
The New York Times editorial board said Romney’s “comments display either a shocking lack of knowledge about international affairs or just craven politics.”
“A throwback to the Cold War,” MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell said of Romney’s comments in 2012. “I mean, we work with Russia all the time.”
“It looks more like a signature [bias] moment in retrospect, that everyone can recognize Romney was right … just as they now recognize Romney was a much more decent chap than they painted him,” Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center told Fox News Digital. “But in the ardor of battle, in reelecting Obama, demonizing was king.”
This piece was written by David Kamioner on February 23, 2022. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.
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Romney is hardly a “decent chap!” Romney has firmly and irrefutably established himself as a poster boy for TREASON. This turncoat should never be trusted. While he indicted Russia, he remained aloof to the true competitor, China. Russian leadership might still want to resurrect the old Soviet Union, but they have no real money to come even close. But China, on the other hand, continues to get richer every day, ironically through bizarrely out-of-balance trade with—the U.S.! Just look at the shelves in Walmart and check the origin of most of their junk. Again, in China, it is not the good people of the nation but only the autocratic clique leading the country further to its doom. Now, we can even say that about the U.S. In one felled swoop, if Putin, Jinping, Biden, Johnson, Macron, Trudeau, etc…were “processed,” the world would return to a more civil state and the global population would find a peace being beaten away by the warmongers taking orders from the Global Elite (the only party who stands to gain by war).
China is more threat than Russia
Hell, General Patton knew in 1945 that we should take on the commies while we had the army in Europe and said so..