Foreign policy is about to go center stage in the presidential race.
This week Mitt Romney goes overseas to London, England, for the 2012
Olympics and later stops in Israel for a meeting with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu.
The political strategy behind this trip — as it was behind candidate Barack Obama’s 2008 trip to Europe — is to demonstrate that the candidate is ready to be a world leader.
But while the big Republican criticism of candidate Obama was the rock star reception he got in liberal European capitals, there is a bigger risk for candidate Romney. He might remind voters of foreign policy decisions during the last Republican administration of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/239385-opinion-struggling-for-a-foreign-policy-boost-romney-heads-overseas
The political strategy behind this trip — as it was behind candidate Barack Obama’s 2008 trip to Europe — is to demonstrate that the candidate is ready to be a world leader.
But while the big Republican criticism of candidate Obama was the rock star reception he got in liberal European capitals, there is a bigger risk for candidate Romney. He might remind voters of foreign policy decisions during the last Republican administration of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/239385-opinion-struggling-for-a-foreign-policy-boost-romney-heads-overseas
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