Romney Makes Financial And Ideological Surge

By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Townhall.com

Monday, Apr 16, 2007

"Mitt Romney - a successful businessman, savior of the Salt Lake Olympics and former Republican governor of a Northeastern state - may not be the most obvious Republican choice for commander in chief."

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"But if you listen to the way Romney's been talking lately, the 'obvious choice' may change."

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"We were treated to his ironclad Republican ideology again earlier this month when Romney commented on administration faux paus, 'Washington is a broken place right now, dysfunctional in some respects, which has been evidenced by the trip by Nancy Pelosi to Syria, but also evidenced by the failure to deal with overspending.'"

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"He followed those comments up with a speech at the George H. W. Bush presidential library in Houston - not only supporting President Bush's current troop-surge policy in Iraq, but calling for increased spending on the U.S. military.

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"'I think many of us still fail to comprehend the extent of the threat posed by radical Islam, by Jihad. Understandably, we focus on Afghanistan and Iraq. Our men and women are dying there. We think in terms of countries, because we faced countries in last century's conflicts. But the Jihad is much broader than any one nation or nations. For radical Islam, there is one conflict and one goal – replacing all modern Islamic states with a caliphate, destroying America and conquering the world.'

"That's not exactly the most popular campaign talk, but it's leader talk. And these facts that our country, Congress and candidates are dismissing at an alarming rate are exactly what Romney is trying to remind them of."

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