Eric Fehrnstrom, a former top aide to Mitt Romney, took to Twitter on Wednesday to claim that the 2012 Republican presidential nominee’s widely mocked claim that Russia is the United States’ “number one geopolitical foe.”
Fehrnstrom linked to a piece in The Atlantic by Michael Hirsh, who wrote that Romney “actually had things right” about Russia — although the point was made “inartfully.”
Turns out Russia is our #1 geopolitical foe tinyurl.com/ccdpkyc
— Eric Fehrnstrom (@EricFehrn) May 8, 2013
During an appearance on CNN last year, Romney said Russia was “without question our number one geopolitical foe” — a remark that President Barack Obama’s campaign used to highlight the Republican’s lack of credibility on national security.
