Asserts the conservative activist and Constitution Party member: "He directed a blow intended to highlight the fact that Obama’s willful weakening of America’s strength and prestige has heightened the vulnerability of our people throughout the world. He intended to point out that this sapping of our defenses has culminated in an assault that boldly challenges the notion that our enemies are any longer intimidated by what was the long arm of our power."
He continues his commentary: "Why did Romney fail in his attempt to make this valid point? I think he failed because the non-ideological pose he must maintain in his campaign means that he will not think through and articulate the terrible consequences of Obama’s ideological blindness. This non-ideological pose leaves Romney struggling to cast everything in terms that contrast Obama’s incompetence with his own supposedly proven competence. (This struggle flawed the generally conservative cast of the GOP platform. The influence of McCain/Romney Republicans led to language that denies the extent to which Islamic fundamentalism predisposes its adherents toward support for and participation in terrorist acts.)"
More: "I predict that in the weeks ahead Mitt Romney will again and again run afoul of the reality he is desperate to deny: Obama’s problem is not his competence, but his commitment to an ideology inimical to America’s safety, to America’s prosperity and to the creed that is the essence of America’s identity as a nation. Romney’s inability to cast the election in terms that focus on Obama’s ideological hostility to America doesn’t arise from some incidental personal quirk or whim. It reflects the globalist anti-nationalism of the 'billionaire breakfast' clique whose money power Karl Rove represents. It also reflects the simple fact that, in any effort to defeat Obama on ideological grounds, Mitt Romney will quickly find that he is running against himself. He is haunted by the possibility that Obama will simply point to all the policies, statements and actions Romney was responsible for that implement or smack of the same socialist ideology."
Alan Keyes: "In His Criticism Of Obama's Response To The U.S. Embassy Attacks, Mitt Romney Failed To Exploit Obama's Ideological Blindness"
