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Renew Deal

(81,856 posts)
Tue May 1, 2012, 11:15 AM May 2012

Romney has no foreign policy experience

Romney has never made a foreign policy decision. The only 3AM phone call Romney would take is about whether today is the day to outsource people's jobs or tomorrow. Otherwise he tells the butler to hang up.

And when it comes down to it, Romney doesn't really have much elected experience anyway. He ran for senate and lost in 1994. He got elected governor in 2003 and only served 1 term. He ran for president and lost in 2008. He ran for president and won the primary by default in 2012.

Does Romney have the experience needed to be president?

Some republicans like to attack Obama on experience, but Obama spent several years in the statehouse and 4 years in the senate before becoming president. And BTW, Obama has presidential experience. Romney has none.

So when it comes to decision making and experience, Romney has never made a foreign policy decision, was a 1 term governor, and had the wrong positions on the important issues (Bin Laden, Auto Bailout, much more).

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Romney has no foreign policy experience (Original Post) Renew Deal May 2012 OP
That's not fair. Mitt has outsourced jobs to many countries and loves France. sinkingfeeling May 2012 #1
lol Renew Deal May 2012 #3
he's an expert in Cayman Islands taxation policy Enrique May 2012 #2
Maybe he can run there if things don't work out here. Renew Deal May 2012 #4
He likes the austerity thing in Europe maybe he would love it there. julian09 May 2012 #8
and Switzerland rurallib May 2012 #6
And don't forget the Salvadorn Death Squad alliance. EFerrari May 2012 #10
But he'll always have Paris pscot May 2012 #5
Surely Bain bought some politicians rurallib May 2012 #7
He has foreign Politicalboi May 2012 #9
 

julian09

(1,435 posts)
8. He likes the austerity thing in Europe maybe he would love it there.
Tue May 1, 2012, 11:35 AM
May 2012

He liked it during the Vietnam war, instead of being in US military.

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
10. And don't forget the Salvadorn Death Squad alliance.
Tue May 1, 2012, 12:02 PM
May 2012

The roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s civil war
Romney tapped El Salvador's wealthy families, including one linked to right-wing death squads
By Justin Elliott

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/the_roots_of_bain_capital_in_el_salvador/

That is BFEE foreign policy.

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