Romney Watch: Early opposition to New Start missile treaty

[philly_bob]

Mitt Romney came out early -- in July -- in opposition to the New Start treaty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/05/AR2010070502657.html

In a response, Slate Magazine's Fred Kaplan said: "In 35 years of following debates over nuclear arms control, I have never seen anything quite as shabby, misleading and —- let's not mince words —- thoroughly ignorant as Mitt Romney's attack on the New START treaty."

http://www.slate.com/id/2259779/

Romney replied here: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243540/eight-problems-new-start-mitt-romney

This is Romney's second position since I started following him. He came out against earmarks, which is fine with me. But this position hurts national security and undercuts Obama's ability to negotiate. Loosely-supervised Soviet nukes are a big problem for world peace.

And look whose side Romney's on: torture memo author John Yoo and who-needs-the-UN John Bolton (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/opinion/10bolton.html), long shamed and discredited.