Oh, please!

There isn't a chance in the world Romney would have invaded Iraq after 9/11. Zero, none. There isn't a thing in his life's arc that would make any reasonable person think that other then Obama nut huggers and R haters.

There is a much larger chance he would have told Saddam go ahead and do what you have to do to those crazy bastards in Iran and Saudi Arabia as long as you sell us the oil at a reasonable price. Feel free to be the King of the desert , but if you **** with us, remember 1991, this time we wont stop after 100 hours.

The notion that Romney = 43 is just nonsense. But that's all your side has left to run on now.

Most libertarians on this forum think Gore would have invaded Iraq. You argue with them now for my amusement.

so we can expect significant reform in SS/Medicare/Defense then or is this "fiscal" solution going to be another exercise in tilting at windmills?

I wouldn't expect much in the way of defense costs beyond the cost of war in Afghanistan. Romney has proposed changes/cuts to both SS and medicare.

Doesn't this just depend on who he surrounds himself with? the PNAC crowd was pretty in in the GOP in 2000, you could argue that almost any GOPer would have acted similarly.

Basically you are just projecting your own hindsight Republitard narrative onto him, you think he's going to reduce the chance we get into a quagmire in Iran?

You mean additional costs or nothing to reduce nondiscretionary spending? You think Afghanistan will be ratcheted down by Rmoney? no Iran?

But we don't have to imagine about what Romney would have done in 2003 to speculate about what he'd do in 2013. We have statements of his own about what he'll do in 2013, and those statements include attacking Iran. Sweet!

So, yeah, you "expect" this, but how will it happen? Has he said anything? I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong. If he hasn't said specifically, then how would you speculate that would happen?

If you believe that, I have a rock that keeps tigers away that I'd love to sell you.

what do crotchety old Tea Party people think about raising the retirement age? I'm all for making them work longer personally, preferably in the military if possible.

Not precisely sure what your asking in your first question. Here is a link that will probably answer your question, http://www.mittromney.com/issues/spending
I have no idea what we hope to accomplish in Afghanistan/Pakistan at this point. I don't know why Romney would stay and longer than Obama. Romney is not politically invested there like Obama.
As for Iran we either drop some missiles and blow up their nuke capability or not. Don't see it as a budget changing endeavor.

Look at the link I posted earlier, don't wanna spam this site with Mitt links but he has an absolute ****load of specific plans.

This is, like, $200B tops. Cutting less than a quarter of the defense budget ain't going to deliver on that promise.

On the topic of spending, R. Money's proposed massive defense spending increases:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/15/mi...ing-plan-bigge

re: foreign policy, Romney v Bush comparisons

Romney has a lot of old Bush people on his team. I think all of his foreign policy people are W Bush guys. That doesn't mean he'll act like Bush on foreign policy, but, he'll be getting the same terrible advice.

He's been friends with Bibi for 20 or 30 years. Call me narrow minded or whatever, but I can't imagine anyone being friends with that savage if they don't share a good bit of his views.


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All that being said, Romney is running as a war monger statist so maybe if he wins he will do the opposite of what he said like most presidents and he'll actually be an anti-war, classical liberal.

I really do have a magic rock, btw.