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  The Kerry-ization of Mitt Romney
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ContributorBrandonius Maximus 
Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  Sep 11, 2012 01:08pm
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AuthorMIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI
News DateTuesday, September 11, 2012 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionMitt Romney is getting the full John Kerry treatment on national security — and some top Republicans are alarmed by what they see as his ham-handed response to it.

Romney — whose convention speech didn’t include a salute to the troops or a reference to Afghanistan, where about 75,000 Americans are still at war — is getting hit almost daily now by Democratic attacks that he is wobbly and therefore untrustworthy on national security.

It’s the same critique Republicans used to undermine Kerry to devastating effect eight years ago — and the Obama campaign plans to use the run-up to the presidential debates to make a major issue of Romney’s surprising convention stumble.
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