According to Romney: “Russia is without question” the United States’ “number one geopolitical foe.”
Oops.
Ryan attempts to clean up after Romney steps into a Sarah Palinism – thinking Russia is still our enemy. Cold war relics will probably agree. The military industrial complex will agree. Military lobbyists will agree. Heck everyone is an enemy of the state, right?
Romney’s Russia statement became the subject of many comedic one-liners at the Democratic National Convention and presented Democrats with the opportunity to point out his lack of foreign policy experience. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who some claim is being considered as Hillary Clinton’s replacement for Secretary of State, said Romney “talks like he’s only seen Russia by watching Rocky IV.”
The return spin: “I think what he was saying was among the other powers, China and Russia, that Russia stands a great threat,” Ryan said.
Why is Russia a threat? I guess we are all supposed to have that figured out.