Harris-Perry: Romney would be Bush-but-worse on foreign policy

[Playinghardball]

Friday night on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” guest host Melissa Harris-Perry attempted to glean a greater truth from all of the hullaballoo over Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)’s disastrous trip to the 2012 London Summer Olympics. She compared and contrasted Romney’s trip abroad with then-Senator Barack Obama’s trip overseas in the summer of 2008, which, as Harris-Perry said, many foreign statesmen treated Obama as a “president-in-waiting” and audiences treated him like a rock star.

As Britons laughed themselves silly over Romney’s seeming inability to open his mouth without landing one or both feet in it, here in the U.S. Romney surrogates Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and Gov. Bob McDonnell tried to make hay of Team Romney’s mistakes, saying things like, “We’re not worried about overseas headlines. We’re worried about voters back here at home in America.” (Jindal)

The back and forth, Harris-Perry believes is emblematic of what we would see in terms of a President Romney’s approach to foreign policy. She reminded viewers of the infamous shoe-throwing incident in Iraq, in which an Iraqi reporter flung his shoes at then-President Bush. Not that she encourages shoe-throwing or any other form of violence, she said, but in a sense, that reporter spoke for the world.

“By the time he left office, his foreign policy agenda,” she said, “was deeply unpopular both overseas and at home.”

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[yourout]

1. Not Possible.......unless he invades England.

[Astazia]

2. THEY'RE BAAAACK

Look at Rom-bot's FP advisors. Neo-con reunion! Leading the pack ROM-bot's admitted choice for Sec of State John Bolton & 30 others that were in the Bush camp. Dan Senor, etal. Check it out. Really?

[Astazia]

3. THEY'RE BAAAACK

Look at Rom-bot's FP advisors. Neo-con reunion! Leading the pack ROM-bot's admitted choice for Sec of State John Bolton & 30 others that were in the Bush camp. Dan Senor, etal. Check it out. Really?