Romney Appeals to Bipartisan Mainstream

In a conference call held by foreign policy advisers Richard Williamson, Alex Wong and Eliot Cohen, the campaign suggested the tactic will be to paint Romney’s policy as part of the bipartisan tradition in foreign policy running from Presidents Harry Truman to John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Williamson, who took the lead in running the call (another indication that he is now the key foreign policy voice for the campaign) rejected a reporter’s notion that Romney was moving to the center. He said this is not a Republican or Democratic foreign policy, but a tradition in which Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama are the exceptions.