Notice to all Republican Candidates: "Thou shall not mention (or be seen with) George Bush or Dick Cheney"
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/07/13/516395/media-barred-photos-romney-cheney/ Media Barred From Photographing Romney With Cheney At Fundraiser By Ben Armbruster on Jul 13, 2012 at 12:52 pm MItt Romney with Dick Cheney in 2002 Dick Cheney hosted a fundraiser for Mitt Romney last night at his home in Wyoming. Donors paid $1,000 to attend a reception, $10,000 for a picture with Romney and $30,000 to eat dinner with Romney and Cheney in the former vice presidents home. While reporters were on hand to cover some of the events, media were not allowed to take photos of Cheney and Romney together. The Los Angeles Times explains: Because of the unpopularity of Bush and Cheney, Romney has kept his distance never appearing publicly with either man during his 2012 campaign. Though both leaders are admired by many in the Republican Party base, any perception of closeness with Romney could be harmful as the unofficial Republican nominee seeks to draw in independent and moderate voters. Indeed, it seems that Romney has been playing a double game this campaign season in an effort to draw away any attention to his neocon-inspired foreign policy. In public, he either chooses to ignore national security issues or he and his advisers dont distinguish the presumptive GOP nominees foreign policy from President Obamas too much. Behind the scenes, however, its quite a different story. As Bush administration Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell noted recently, Romneys foreign policy advisers are quite far to the right. Many of them advocated for the Iraq war and now want war with Iran. And the ones who want war reportedly have Romneys ear as one top Republican operative told Reuters recently that the moderate camp inside Romneys foreign policy team are very concerned about the fact that if Romney needs to call anyone, his instinct is to call the Cheney-ites. Another Romney aide, Vin Weber who has received scrutiny for lobbying for countries with poor human rights records told the Washington Post that its inevitable that the Bush-Cheney alumni advising Romney on foreign policy are going to have some influence. Cheney praised Romney last night as the only candidate to make what he thinks are the right foreign policy decisions as commander-in-chief. In fact, Romney shares Cheneys views on a number of national security issues, as Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) observed in an article in Foreign Policy yesterday: A Romney presidency promises to take us back to something all too familiar: a Bush-Cheney doctrine equal parts naïve and cavalier which eagerly embraces military force without fully considering the consequences. _______________________________________________ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
