Michael Steele Stumped Over Romney's Foreign Policy

     You almost have to feel sorry for Michael Steele. He spent two years as the RNC spokesman trying to somehow defend the indefensible and make the unreasonable sound reasonable. You always get the sense that he knows that was what he was doing

     Now, as a regular MSNBC contributor he's the de facto spokesman for the Republican party as well as the network's only Republican-accepting Joe Scarborough.

      Tonight he was trying to stick up for Romney to push back against Chris Matthews's narrative about Romney as an empty suit, and empty vessel just there to do someone else's bidding. After all Grover Norquist at a recent fundraiser was saying that the Republican House and Senate will set conservative policy for the next 20 years, that all is needed from any GOP President is a pen and a working pair of digits.

     Then Chris pointed out that the GOP has very little to say about foreign policy other than to criticize Obama for taking well deserved credit for his success in killing Bin Laden.

     So Matthews gave him the chance and asked him to name one thing that Romney has every said about foreign policy that is notable or worth talking about. Steele was totally stumped and complained that somehow the question was unfair.

     That silence spoke volumes. With Romney uncharitably claiming that any President would have done what Obama did-ignoring the fact that he said in 2007 that he didn't think it worth it to seek out Bin Laden-and Bush had failed in 7 years to do it at one point saying like Romney did that it wasn't so important to catch Bin Laden after all-he himself has nothing worth talking about on foreign policy. He's kind of the the obverse of McCain in 2008 who knew nothing about the economy-he ludicrously declared that "the fundamentals of the economy are strong"-and was all about a hawkish foreign policy, Romney knows nothing about foreign policy-all he knows about are tax cuts for the rich.

    I think Steele shouldn't feel bad for being stumped. I think most Americans are stumped about what is worth admiring Romney about-on foreign or economic policy.