Ethics

Ackerman Rips Romney's Foreign Policy Cred

By Ed Brayton

If you want to see a royal book review beatdown, take a look at my colleague Spencer Ackerman's review of Mitt Romney's new book, No Apology: The Case For American Greatness. This is a first class ass whipping from the very first paragraph:

Mitt Romney's just-published book, "No Apology: The Case For American Greatness," is a bid to bolster the former Massachusetts governor's nonexistent national-security and foreign policy portfolio ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run. But a glance through the remarkable conflation of conservative shibboleths, paranoid global fantasies and deterministic myopia in "No Apology" makes it difficult to avoid the conclusion that the perennial GOP candidate might have been better off saying nothing at all.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).