{"id":21999,"date":"2017-05-29T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T22:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21999"},"modified":"2017-05-29T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T22:51:22","slug":"mitt-romney-ahead-of-his-time-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21999","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney: ahead of his time in 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mitt Romney issued a warning in 2012 that many Americans — yours truly included — derided as hopelessly out of touch.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you’ll remember when he declared Russia to be the world’s “No. 1 geopolitical threat.” President Obama all but laughed him out of the proverbial room.<\/p>\n

The president spoke instead of the threat\u00a0presented by international terrorism. Many of us agreed with the president and not the then-Republican Party nominee who was running against him.<\/p>\n

It well might be that Mitt was ahead of his time five years ago. Republicans in Congress are starting to echo their party’s one-time presidential standard bearer.<\/p>\n

Sen. John McCain is one of them. Speaking to an Australian radio station, McCain said: “I think ISIS can do terrible things. But it’s the Russians who tried to destroy the fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome of an American election.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s still to be determined just how much impact the Russians had on the 2016 electoral outcome, but they surely have succeeded in throwing the U.S. political debate into a tizzy.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Russians still possess a lot of nuclear weapons. They have a formidable conventional military force, which they have used in places like Ukraine and Syria.<\/p>\n

Are the Russians the most fearsome political foe we face?<\/p>\n

Yes, it looks that way to a lot of us — and, yes, that includes yours truly.<\/p>\n

I regret that I doubted you, Mitt.<\/p>\n\n

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Mitt Romney issued a warning in 2012 that many Americans — yours truly included — derided as hopelessly out of touch. Perhaps you’ll remember when he declared Russia to be the world’s “No. 1 geopolitical threat.” President Obama all but laughed him out of the proverbial room. The president spoke instead of the threat\u00a0presented by … Continue reading Mitt Romney: ahead of his time in 2012?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[540,2348,2362,3101,4050,4562],"class_list":["post-21999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-mitt-romney","tag-russia","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22003,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions\/22003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}