Can someone explain Romney's speech?

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Not much to explain. I think you understand perfectly.

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In reality, the mainstream part of both parties have pretty much the same foreign policy views so semantic differences like these drive voters more than they should.
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War in Iraq?

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Those differences were minimal when the war was beginning/popular...

That's not true at all.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-03-07/news/0303070308_1_military-action-iraq-older-americans

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Those differences were minimal when the war was beginning/popular...

That's not true at all.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-03-07/news/0303070308_1_military-action-iraq-older-americans

When it came to party elected officials/leaders, there were minimal differences.

A majority of Dems voted against authorizing the war.

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Those differences were minimal when the war was beginning/popular...

That's not true at all.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-03-07/news/0303070308_1_military-action-iraq-older-americans

When it came to party elected officials/leaders, there were minimal differences.

A majority of Dems voted against authorizing the war.

And where were the Congressional leaders? Very little, if any, difference between them and the GOP. That says something about the party.

The most visible face of the party, Nancy Pelosi, voted against it. Obama was not yet in office, but I very much doubt he would have supported it. Iraq was obviously the Republicans' war even if they scared a minority of the Democrats into going along with it.

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The most visible face of the party, Nancy Pelosi, voted against it. Obama was not yet in office, but I very much doubt he would have supported it. Iraq was obviously the Republicans' war even if they scared a minority of the Democrats into going along with it.

Nancy Pelosi was not a more visible face than Dick Gephardt in 2003. Nice try.

So now we're comparing the parties from nine years ago? We were speaking in the present tense.