Romney, Hezbollah, and healthcare

Published: August 3, 2007, 8:15 pm

Tags: mitt romney, election 08, foreign policy

The hyper-conservative World Net Daily has caused a bit of a stir on the right today with this report. Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney has cited the social welfare network of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group as a role model the U.S. should copy to help promote goodness and freedom around the world. This isn't going over well among some conservatives. National Review's Lisa Schiffren said it is really horrifying to think that a man of Mr. Romney's intelligence would make the a [sic] serious diplomatic mistake of citing a radical terrorist group as a model for U.S. policy. This is where being a techno-guy, without any real foreign policy experience, (or ear) begins to matter. There's two parts to this. One, did Romney say what WND reported? And two, is Romney right? The answer is yes, to both. WND didn't misquote Romney. Check the entire clip. It was, oddly enough, a pretty good answer. Hezbollah curried favor in Lebanon by offering key

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