So it’s official. The Romney Ryan team will be requiring the use of a time machine to zero out Obama’s foreign policy advantage. And just when you hoping for things to settle down and get logical….
On Sunday Sept 9 Paul Ryan set down with Norah O’Donnell on FACE THE NATION. Here’s what the following response was when asked about foreign policy experience:
O'DONNELL: Let's turn now to foreign policy.
President Obama said in his convention speech you may have heard. He talked about you and Governor Romney as newcomers to foreign policy to subscribe to a blustering and blundering approach. Do you have a response to that?
RYAN: I think this is what people do when they have nothing else to offer. I think these are the kind of name calling you're going to get from the president. I have more foreign policy experience coming into this job than President Obama did coming into his.
The only problem Ryan has failed to see here is that he’s not running against 2008 Obama, he’s running against 2012 Obama. Ryan wants a time machine, only for Obama, so Ryan can eliminate the 4 years of Commander-in-Chief experience and use an out-dated resume as the measuring stick. Imagine if Obama was comparing himself against a 2008 Ryan. It would sound ridiculous. I guess the GOP couldn’t “build that” time machine to even out the race.
Mind you, perhaps they have a prototype, because Romney seems to have sneaked off and gotten himself caught in the vortex of 1980 foreign policy….You remember, when Russia was considered America’s greatest geopolitical threat. Ahhhh memories!
No matter how much Ryan spun it for his running mate, Ryan came off disingenuous with the explanation of why Romney said Russia was America’s No. 1 enemy.
O'DONNELL: Who do you America's number one enemy is?
RYAN: Well, I think a nuclear Iran is our biggest foreign policy threat today.
O'DONNELL The reason I ask you that is Mitt Romney was criticized during the Democratic National Convention for saying Russia is without question our number one geopolitical foe. So do you disagree with Mitt Romney?
RYAN: No, I think what he was saying was among the other powers -- China and Russia -- that Russia stands a great threat.
Smells of lightly grilled Orwellian thoughts wafted in the air. Oceania, take notice, you too could be the next enemy of the GOP. Now get thee to a time machine, and let’s fast forward out of this inane politics.