The crisis in Ukraine 'would have been different' if Mitt Romney had been elected president, according to a former Republican Virginia governor.
President Barack Obama, said Jim Gilmore, is sacrificing America's national security on the altar of rank partisanship, blaming Republican-led cuts in the rate of spending growth for new limits on America's involvement abroad.
'He's satisfying himself with "Well, I have to scale back our safety because of you, because of your sequester,"' Gilmore told MailOnline, referring to a series of Defense Department budget cuts put in place as a dicey solution to a congressional budget stalemate in 2012.
'That's politics. That's not national leadership. He seems to be using partisanship as his excuse for a reduction of our national security and safety.'
Gilmore was Virginia's governor from 1998 to 2002 and now runs the Free Congress Foundation, a conservative think tank that pushes for aggressive U.S. foreign policy.
He told MailOnline on Friday at the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference in Nashua, New Hampshire that Obama 'doesn't have a vision for the big-picture safety and security of this country.
''He should have reversed course' after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Gilmore insisted.
If Obama had lost his re-election bid to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, he said, Putin would have been less bold.
'In all probability it would have been different' with Romney in charge, Gilmore told MailOnline, since Obama isn't believable overseas.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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3 comments:
God forbid.
Ha. EVERYTHING would be different under Pres Romney. Or even Pres McCain. TOO BAD FOR US.
-Martha
Hopefully, Romney would have warned the people who launched the revolution in Ukraine, that they need to recalibrate their strategy. If they had just waited until the next election, Russia would not have had the excuse to cause the revolt in Crimea.
The US has had this total jughead mentality for decades now, of supporting every slimeball in the street who wants to start a revolution.
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