New York Daily News
He's angered the Brits, infuriated the Palestinians, and now he’s going after the Russians.
Globe-trotting GOP presidential hopeful
Mitt Romney was expected Tuesday to deliver a Cold War-type smackdown of the Russkies — and, by extension,
President Obama — with a “value of liberty” speech at Warsaw University.
Romney is expected to attack Russian leader Vladimir Putin for rolling
back Democratic reforms — and delicately suggest that Obama is leaving a
key ally like Poland in the lurch, though the U.S. is rolling out a
permanent military detachment in Poland.
Romney’s remarks, while delivered in Poland, are actually aimed at
impressing Polish-American voters back home in key swing states, like
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, that he needs to win in
November. People of eastern European descent tend to support the GOP
because of Ronald Reagan’s legacy.
In those states, as in Warsaw, there is deep suspicion of Poland’s
longtime Russian enemy — and with the Obama administration’s attempts to
“reset” the U.S. relationship with Moscow. Romney has called Russia
America’s “No. 1 geopolitical foe.”
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