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How Did I Miss This One??

I can’t believe I missed this gem from Mitt Romney. Courtesy of the AP

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says that if terrorists detonated a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city while he was president he would retaliate “in a very dramatic and clear way.”

Posed that scenario while campaigning Friday in this early primary state, Romney said he didn’t want to say much more.

“The answer is you would retaliate and you’d retaliate in a very dramatic and clear way. I don’t want to be terribly more specific than that,” the former Massachusetts governor said.

File this under Duh!, No Shit, Common Sense, Master of the Obvious, and Who Wouldn’t.

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5 Responses to “How Did I Miss This One??”

  1. Jet Netwal Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 11:50 am

    I think the reason he doesn’t want to be more specific is so it’s easier to flip flop on later.

  2. SteveIL Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 12:00 pm

    File this under Duh!, No Shit, Common Sense, Master of the Obvious, and Who Wouldn’t.

    I can tell who wouldn’t: Obama. Back in April, he said the following in response to a question from Brian Williams regarding what he would do if a terrorism attack occurred:

    Obama said he first would assure there was an effective emergency response and not a repeat of what happened in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

    He then turned his attention to the issue of intelligence. “The second thing is to make sure that we’ve got good intelligence, A) to find out that we don’t have other threats and attacks potentially out there, and, B) to find out, do we have any intelligence on who might have carried it out so that we can take potentially some action to dismantle that network.”

    He went on to say that what the United States must avoid at such a moment is alienating the world community “based on faulty intelligence, based on bluster and bombast,” adding that “we’re not going to defeat terrorists on our own.”

    Clinton has been hammering Obama since, so much so that Obama has now stated how much he wants, at minimum, to copy what Bush has done regarding Pakistan. At least Romney answered correctly with an answer Americans need to hear from someone who wants to be their President.

  3. Paul Watson Says:
    September 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Ok, SteveIL, what does Romney’s answer mean? What would he do? Would he adopt Tancredo’s idea and blow up Mecca? Or attack Iran? Or Pakistan? Or would he raise a flag on the White House that said ‘Terrorists suck’. All those would be dramatic and clear. They just wouldn’t be all that useful. So, what did Romney actually commit himself to?

  4. tod Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 2:09 am

    Slightly OT: Does anyone know what the heck Mitt Romney’s real first name is? Like who would name their kid after baseball equipment. I would much prefer calling him “Mutt” than “Mitt.”

  5. SteveIL Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 8:51 am

    Paul Watson said:

    So, what did Romney actually commit himself to?

    Defending the people of the United States from foreign attack. Which is exactly the opposite of what Obama said. Obama’s statement says that while the American people are under attack, he would make it his business to not piss off the rest of the world. Which invites more attacks from people who don’t really care how “nice” the U.S. government is. What the hell kind of leadership is that? We had that with Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton (and sometimes with Reagan and both Presidents Bush), and don’t need a repeat of that from Obama.

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