Posted on 10/20/2012 7:53:05 PM PDT by chessplayer
Will last Tuesday’s big debate moment become Monday night’s big debate topic? Tuesday’s moment came when the candidates focused on the recent attack that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three others. As the Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial page wrote: It was Mitt Romney’s “weakest moment.” Now as the campaigns ready for the foreign policy debate, to be held Monday in Florida, the question is whether Romney returns to the question of Libya. Political insiders in both parties say no. They are predicting the argument will shift to the questions about the president’s handling of sanctions to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons and the administration’s testy relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Even US relationships with Russia and China could get more time. So if Romney chooses to go back to the topic of Libya he is taking a big risk. It again could prove to be a blind alley where he gets mugged a second time. Meanwhile both sides fear any factual slip or glaring lack of knowledge in this last debate before the election. That fear is large in the Romney camp as they prepare a candidate with no foreign policy experience.
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My thoughts are that Obama’s Middle East foreign policy is a steaming train wreck, and even folks with little interest in the rest of the world can sense that. The encounter on Libya in the last debate, which some felt was an error by Romney (and I disagree) merely served to call more attention to Obama’s failure. I think this will be the same issue in the 3rd debate, whether Romney handles it well or not. Any more attention on this subject is to the detriment of the President.
My thoughts are that Obama’s Middle East foreign policy is a steaming train wreck, and even folks with little interest in the rest of the world can sense that. The encounter on Libya in the last debate, which some felt was an error by Romney (and I disagree) merely served to call more attention to Obama’s failure. I think this will be the same issue in the 3rd debate, whether Romney handles it well or not. Any more attention on this subject is to the detriment of the President.
Juan needs to go back to NPR and stay there. On Fox, he’s the local fool.
Juan has never heard of risk reward. America is starving for leadership.
Pray for America
You nailed it!
Oh, shut up... the only thing that’s over is Obama... sheesh, give me a break... Libya is very much on the table and the lying about it is too. Romney’s goal will not be to try to chase rabbits like last time, it will be merely to point to libya as an abject failure of Obama’s notion of leading from behind and his unwillingness to call our enemy for what they are. Libya is illustrative of Obama’s foreign policy, and you can bet Romney in some form or another will be pointing that out.
Heheh.
You have just described my next birthday party. Cake and ice cream, please!
Go Mitt!
“I like Juan...he’s a sweet heart of a guy.”
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Surely you are being facetious.
Juan looks like a deer in the headlights.
Juan the moron is nothing but one of the token leftist on FOX.
LOL.
GO ROMNEY!!!!
If they bring up Romney’s lack of experience in foreign affairs, he should say that Obama had no experience in 2008.
Maybe then elaborate that Obama’s done nothing to build on that lack of experience including attending his own security briefings.
But I know what everyone’s saying, this is O’s last chance to bury Romney and he won’t hold back. That fact that Crowley actually coordinated with him last debate is a scary thing. No telling what they’ve got setup this time.
Unfortunately the picture shows a brain, albeit a small brain ... Juan is a walking, talking brainless idiot. He is proof that a body can walk and talk without a brain ... IMHO.
“Don’t say anything about his neck, man.”
Juan is wrong. This is a typical ploy - even 'if' Juan does not recognize this as such. Mitt, however; cannot let others carry his water 'for him' because our time left until Election; IS of the essence. There are a 'thousand and one' MO's for the Left to silence their opponents; this is just another variation, of the same Lefty 'silence your opposition' schema.
Obama needs a knock-out punch on Monday. Hope Obama will be ready.
Juan Williams is right about anything, ever.
In fact, anytime Juan Williams is on TV, it should say right under his little rodent like face -Juan Williams, super genius-.
It was his weakest moment because Team Romney forgot that he had two hostiles in the room Candy AND Bammy! I am pretty sure that none of Mitt's prep included the debate moderator adding a lie to the table! One on one you can counter a lie but this was pure evil in the room at the moment. Mix that in with the frenzy of Michelle's clapping and the Rats in the audience joining in and you have a moment of "this can't be real!"
Mitt needs to come back to Ben Ghazi! This time he needs to come back to it with the focus on WHY Ben Ghazi matters. Ben Ghazi is at the Central part of Team Obama's foreign policy! AL QAEDA IS ALIVE! pResident Ubama stood with the Muslim world in his foreign policy and has brought Muslim Brotherhood jihadists into power in the Muslim world. He has not stopped Al Qaeda from coming after Americans! In fact one can argue that they are emboldened to come after us harder! No amount of bowing or apologizing to the world has worked to stem the evil jihadists from coming after us. Team Obama was hoping to change the narrative away from Muslim extremists and wanted desperately to keep it on the video because Al Qaeda killing a US Ambassador means that Ubama is FAILING! His foreign policy is built upon - now the Muslims love us because I have mended the fences. Instead they have only reloaded and now they are coming after the free world!
FIRST THE SATURDAY PEOPLE - THEN THE SUNDAY PEOPLE!
The media will continue to define Romney every chance they can get. Fortunately the debates have allowed Romney to destroy the image that the media and Ubama have created. In this final debate keep the argument so simple a fifth grader can understand it and Team Romney will win this!
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