GOP to Romney: You're so vague
By JIM VANDEHEI and ALEXANDER BURNS | 9/11/12 10:52 AM EDT
Leading conservatives are offering blunt advice to Mitt Romney: Quit ducking details, start engaging in a real and specific war of ideas with President Barack Obama — or lose.
Here’s just a sampling of the past 24 hours:
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• In addition to the broadside from the Journal editorial page, former George W. Bush speechwriter William McGurn penned a separate column lamenting “the silence of the Republican lamb” – that would be Romney – on the war in Afghanistan. Democrats have pilloried Romney for not mentioning Afghanistan in his GOP convention speech, and McGurn shakes his head at the absence of in-depth war policy from Romney’s comments and campaign website. “Maybe that makes political sense, with unemployment stuck above 8% and the economy sputtering,” McGurn writes, calling that a “disservice” to the country on several levels.
“It is, first, a disservice to the stronger foreign policy Mr. Romney is alleged to represent. Does he really believe, for example, that the Israelis will be encouraged and the Iranians deterred by expressions of resolve from a political leader so reluctant to bring up a war Americans are actually fighting? Silence is also a disservice to those whom we ask to do our fighting.”
much more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81033.html?hp=t1_3
DO SOMETHING!
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