James Carafano on Romney’s Opposition to START
The Heritage Foundation’s James Carafano wrote a post about the new START at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace blog. Carafano references a Washington Post article we blogged about last week. Mitt Romney wrote that the new treaty “could be his worst foreign policy mistake yet. The treaty as submitted to the Senate should not be ratified.”
Carafano makes the point that although other Republicans oppose START, Romney’s opposition to it is bold, considering he may decide to run for president.
“Even in the ranks of the Senate, most of the honorable gentlemen and gentlewomen are holding off rejecting the treaty outright. Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Jim DeMint of South Carolina have expressed a pretty high degree of skepticism. At best, however, most of the legislators on the right have confined themselves to demanding the White House give up more background information, demanding “reports on Russia’s compliance with a nuclear arms control treaty that expired last December,” and requesting “the record of negotiations that led to the New START agreement in a letter to President Obama on May 6.”
“By coming out and saying the treaty is unacceptable as it is, Romney finds himself standing pretty much to the right of the Right.”
Read Carafano’s full post here.
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