This was originally posted at 2010 U.S. Senate candidate Chuck Donovan’s blog, DonovanForLiberty.com.  Re-published here with his permission.

The following headline today shows again the Mitt Romney has no new ideas and embraces the same old bad ideas.

“Romney flexes foreign policy stance, calls again for ‘crippling sanctions’ on Iran”

Imagine someone who thinks “bad” children need to be spanked and punished even worse.  Romney thinks that leadership means we just have to punish “bad” people even worse.  The Iranians refuse to do what we want?  Just threaten and spank them even more.  They still won’t do what we want?  Lets be mass murderers again and bomb them.  See, we solved the whole thing.

Here is a better idea.  ””Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.”(1)  It isn’t a new idea, just an old one that has yet to be tried, and yet to be offered by the current crop of so-called “leaders”.  Only two candidates have offered this idea in 2012.  One of them is out of the race.  The other is Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. [Read more...]