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The Nation
by Ben Adler

After winning the primaries in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney delivered a peroration in Manchester, New Hampshire, awkwardly titled 'A Better America Begins Tonight.' In it, Romney claimed the mantle of GOP nominee and declared the general election season underway. He focused on the themes he has clearly been planning on emphasizing in the contest against President Obama: a return to American greatness economically and in global power...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/167544/did-romney-buy-gop-nomination



Mitt Romney s neocon war cabinet

The Nation
by Ari Berman

05/03/12

It s safe to say that foreign policy was not the strong suit of this year s contenders for the GOP presidential nomination. ... [T]heir statements on foreign policy reflected a more disturbing trend in the GOP. Despite facing a war-weary public, the candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul, an antiwar libertarian, and Jon Huntsman, a moderate internationalist) positioned themselves as unapologetic war hawks. That included Mitt Romney, marginally more polished than his rivals but hardly an expert...

http://tinyurl.com/dx5qs3r


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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