tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442316965427332285.post6497761080006472506..comments2016-11-29T08:16:15.456-08:00Comments on Secret memo: My view of Mitt RomneyBruce Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01975464286394973580noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442316965427332285.post-65759183591807801032012-06-26T13:26:08.733-07:002012-06-26T13:26:08.733-07:00I'll be fixing the link to Senator Reid. I be...I'll be fixing the link to Senator Reid. I believe it can be found at <a href="http://english.byu.edu/faculty/youngb/reid.pdf" rel="nofollow"> http://english.byu.edu/faculty/youngb/reid.pdf</a>Bruce Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975464286394973580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442316965427332285.post-35693372302928772932012-01-09T18:50:00.716-08:002012-01-09T18:50:00.716-08:00thanks for thisthanks for thislisa h.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11983554804367985541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442316965427332285.post-78145337521934557972011-05-08T13:09:17.613-07:002011-05-08T13:09:17.613-07:00I just wanted you to know that the Harry Reid link...I just wanted you to know that the Harry Reid link is dead, which is too bad, because I was looking forward to reading it.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00240627164697020604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4442316965427332285.post-7810949349169590972010-08-20T08:44:07.750-07:002010-08-20T08:44:07.750-07:00An earlier version of this post drew some sharp cr...An earlier version of this post drew some sharp criticism, to which I responded. (For that version and the comments, click <a href="http://secret-memo.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-view-of-mitt-romney.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) One concern was that I had not provided citations for the claims I made about Romney.<br /><br />I believe most of my points--both positive and negative--are uncontroversial, based on evidence widely known. But Romney's statement on revelation is less well known. It was made in December 2007 to a Boston TV reporter, Natalie Jacobson, who asked what he would do, as president, if God spoke to him or spoke to his Church's prophet.<br /><br />Romney's response was to laugh and say: "Well, I don't recall God speaking to me. I, I don't recall God speaking to anyone since, uh, Moses and the [burning] bush, or perhaps some others, but, but I don't have that frequent of communication." (See http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7785332--you might have to go to the paper's archives.)<br /><br />Perhaps he was just being careless. Still, I think his response is telling.<br /><br />*************************************************<br />ON ANOTHER MATTER: Since writing the original post, I've been reading up on Romney's opposition to the START treaty. What I've learned has made me much less likely to support Romney, both because of his dangerously hawkish stance and his evident lack of understanding of the issues.<br /><br />First of all, I'm inclined to take a positive view of a treaty supported by the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Republicans and Democrats of great stature and expertise in foreign relations and arms control (such as Jim Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger, and Brent Scowcroft). <br /><br />And I'm even more inclined in that direction when I learn that those opposing the treaty are the same people who brought us the invasion of Iraq.<br /><br />For a careful analysis including Senator Lugar's response to Romney's objections, see <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/107787-lugar-takes-shot-at-romney-over-start" rel="nofollow">http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/107787-lugar-takes-shot-at-romney-over-start</a> and <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/will-romneys-start-gamble-pay-off/60581/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/<br />2010/07/will-romneys-start-gamble-pay-off/60581/</a>.<br /><br />Besides my basic disagreement with Romney on the treaty, I am troubled to learn that his op-ed on the subject (almost certainly--for the most part--the work of one or more speech writers) betrays in its very vocabulary and phrasing his weak grasp of the crucial issues he was writing about.Bruce Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01975464286394973580noreply@blogger.com