Romney Fails to Mention Libya in First Debate

Mitt Romney neglected to mention President Barack Obama’s policy disaster in Libya during Wednesday night’s first presidential debate.

Granted, the debate was supposed to be about domestic policy, but that didn’t stop Obama from mentioning his successes in beating down Al Qaeda and nabbing Osama Bin Laden.

Romney missed an awesome chance to nail Obama by pointing out the President’s failure to lead abroad and the deaths of many Americans as a result of the growing instability and tension in the Middle East.

It was an especially big error on Romney’s part given Wednesday’s news about Libya and the fact that the Bengzhai consulate has yet to be secured weeks after the attack on September 11.

The attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya is too big an issue to limit it to the foreign policy section of the alloted debate time. Romney needs to hammer that point home whenever and wherever he can if he wants the narrative to stick, especially since the foreign policy debate is weeks away.

It’s a great way to get a big long stutter out of Obama, and Romney would be remiss if he doesn’t take advantage of that opportunity whenever he can in the future.

By /// October 3, 2012
About Regina Conley

Regina is the Event Coordinator and an Associate Editor for Red Alert Politics. As a DC journalist who specializes in politics, policy and social issues, she currently contributes to the Washington Examiner and has had her work linked on FOXNews, CNN, the Washington Post, the New York Times and featured on the Sean Hannity Show. She is also a student of History and Spanish at The Catholic University of America.

Comments

  1. Brian Maday says:
    October 4, 2012 at 7:59 am

    Regina, the subjects to be covered in the debate were clearly explain. Foeign “anything” was not on the agenda. WAIT YOUR TURN.

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  2. roger says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:41 am

    This was STRICTLY domestic & economy detail. Both candidates couldn’t talk about the foriegn policy. That is why you did not hear anything about any foreign country. What happened in Iran yesterday, I think they should have dropped a hint. Soon we will get all that.

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  3. roger says:
    October 4, 2012 at 10:41 am

    This was STRICTLY domestic & economy debate. Both candidates couldn’t talk about the foriegn policy. That is why you did not hear anything about any foreign country. What happened in Iran yesterday, I think they should have dropped a hint. Soon we will get all that.

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    • Francesca Chambers Francesca Chambers says:
      October 4, 2012 at 12:42 pm

      Hi Roger,

      Thanks for your comment. However you are incorrect that the candidates couldn’t talk about foreign policy. They were supposed to talk about the economy, but they “could” talk about whatever they wanted – which they did. In fact, Lehrer had to keep demanding that they come back to the topic they were assigned. Also, as Regina stated, the topic didn’t stop Obama from mentioned that he killed Bin Laden. So Romney could have got in there had he wanted to.

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