Chicken Hawk Mitt Romney Threatening the Use of Nuclear Weaons

      I've been amused to see that some conservatives seem to think that Condoleeza rice is Mitt's savior in his troubled campaign-the latest troubles were his flop in Britain. The whole point of that glorified photo op gone awry, was to change the subject over the questions about Bain capital and why he won't release his tax returns.

     I mean aside from the fact that the conservative majority will not allow Romney to nominate a pro choicer, she is way too intimately tied with the failed Bush Administration who few Americans hold in high regard. Actually, polls show that even most Republicans don't miss Bush.

    As conservative radio host Mark Levine puts it, a Rice veep would mean that not only would the Romney campaign have to defend Bain for the rest of the election but the Bush Administration. Talk about two for the price of one.

   What's clear is that whatever success Romney has or doesn't have in hanging the bad economy on the President alone-polls indicate most Americans don't agree and still blame Bush more-he certainly doesn't want to remind anyone of Bush.

   Yet here he was in Israel channeling George W. Bush with his bellicose threats of nuclear weapon attacks. We haven't had a nuclear attack since 1945, happily, and do we really want this return to the Bush years, where Dubyah would threaten Holy Hell on the whole world at every moment? Obama has not taken military solutions off the table but he also believes that diplomacy should always be the first choice.

   We know how diplomacy challenged Mitt is by his latest case of his foot in his mouth disease in Britain. So it seems that a Romney Presidency will be very like a George W. Bush Presidency:

   "The Republican candidate said preventing a nuclear Iran should be America's "highest national security priority." And while he argued that diplomatic efforts should continue, Romney insisted that all options should be on the table in dealing with Iran, including a military strike."

   "We should employ any and all measures to dissuade the Iranian regime from its nuclear course, and it is our fervent hope that diplomatic and economic measures will do so," Romney said in an outdoor speech at Mishkenot Sha'anamim, a cultural center in Jerusalem. "In the final analysis, of course, no option should be excluded. We recognize Israel's right to defend itself, and that it is right for America to stand with you. "

Romney pushed back against criticism that those arguing in favor of leaving the military option open are "reckless and provocative and inviting war." "The opposite is true. We are the true peacemakers," Romney said.

     http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-iran-no-option-excluded-181728095.html
   
     Nope. You can say many things about President Bush, but one thing is definitely not "peacemaker." The accurate word is war monger. The fact is that the President has not taken a military response off the table but that it's not his preferred choice quite properly.

     I don't think there's much appetite in this country to a return to military solutions being the first, preferred option again.

    I mean most Americans have war fatigue. There's a lot of gratitude that we're finally out of Iraq. On Afghanistan while we have winded down, many feel that here the President even wasn't quick enough.

    The worst part of Romney's miserable pandering is that it's all done with the view of picking up Jewish votes. Yet what a libel against the Jews to imagine that the way to their hearts is chicken hawk bravado and promises of military escalation and nuclear bombs.

   While American Jews like anyone else are individuals, as a demographic nothing about them suggests that they are impressed by war mongering-in Israel no more than elsewhere. The GOP always thinks that they're going to finally get over 25% of the Jewish vote because they support the Netanyahu approach to Israel's foreign policy. It hasn't worked until now and I doubt it will this time either. It will merely confirm Jews in their preference for the Democrats as a reasoned party with a measured attitude on foreign policy.

   I suspect the Jewish war monger vote even on behalf of Israel is pretty small.