TIMID. The one word that said it all in last nights debate.
Transcript:
GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: 22:08:29:00 And I'm president of the United States, I will exercise sobriety, care, stability. And make sure that in a setting like this, anything I say that can affect a place with-- with rockets going in, with people dying, I don't do anything that would harm that-- that process.
22:08:47:00 And therefore, before I made a statement of that nature, I'd get on the phone to my friend Bibi Netanyahu and say, "Would it help if I said this? What would you like me to do? Let's work together, because we're partners." I'm not a bomb thrower, rhetorically or literally.
DIANE SAWYER: 22:09:00:00 Under the rules, we need-- your response. (APPLAUSE)
SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH: 22:09:05:00 I think sometimes it is helpful to have a president of the United States with the courage to tell the truth, just as was Ronald Reagan who went around his entire national security apparatus to call the Soviet Union an evil empire and who overruled his entire State Department in order to say, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Reagan believed the power of truth restated the world and reframed the world. I am a Reaganite, I'm proud to be a Reaganite. I will tell the truth, even if it's at the risk of causing some confusion sometimes with the timid.
That exchanged said it all when it comes to the differences in these two men.
Romney made it clear in that exchange that he's nothing but a weather vane. No core convictions. No backbone. He would require approval in polls and the U.N. before he could overcome his own indecisive paralysis. A guy that has to make "phone calls" before he can take a stand is not what we need.
The complete transcript of that exchange can be found
here.