Romney: 2010 Good For GOP

[Mike (Premo)]

HUMAN EVENTS editors Tom Winter and Jeb Babbin interviewed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on September 18. Here are excerpts from the interview.

HE: What do you think should be done as an alternative to the Obama handling of ballistic missile defense?

ROMNEY: Well, the threat of nuclear terror and nuclear attack on one nation or another has only gotten larger, not smaller, over the last few years. Not only because of North Korea’s missile tests and nuclear testing, but also given Iran’s ambition to become a nuclear nation. The instability of Pakistan, with its very extensive nuclear capacities has increased the risk, not lessened it. For that reason, a nuclear defense system must be at least one of the highest priorities of the United States of America. And a decision to pull back from missile defense can only in my view be the result of the Democrats’ resistance to supporting anything that Ronald Reagan came up with, and that people like George Bush supported. It is such a common-sense objective, recognized by American citizens around the world to protect ourselves from nuclear terror, that I simply cannot understand President Obama’s decision to walk away from our commitments to Europe

HE: If you were President, would you tell Atty. Gen. Holder to back off on this investigation?

ROMNEY: Absolutely… Going after the prior administration for practices which were deemed lawful by that administration and by their attorneys is not a productive course for America. President Obama has hung our laundry out for the world to see with regards to interrogations, at the same time without showing the results of those very interrogations. The implication is that he was only trying to discredit the Bush Administration.

HE: I was going to ask you about cash for clunkers and the whole outlook for the automobile industry.

ROMNEY: The right course for the automobile industry, which I indicated from the outset, was don’t bail them out until you restructure them. And we put about $20 billion into those companies, which is just money down the drain in my opinion. They needed to go through bankruptcy to be restructured. The administration finally came around to that, and Chrysler and General Motors went through that process. Once they went through bankruptcy, and with the government’s additional support of those enterprises, the government got a lot of stock. That stock should have been distributed to the American public, the taxpayers, not held by government for Barack Obama and his administration to try to soldier the American out of the wheel industry.

Much more in the linked article.

Romney: 2010 Good For GOP - HUMAN EVENTS

Mitt Rimney is really beginning to sound like a damn good presidential candidate. I think he's a guy I could support, but I've seen him defend the Massachusetts state run healthcare unconvincingly, IMO. I like his thoughts on foriegn policy and how to define victory as well as his plan to get Government Motors out of the government's evil clutches.