[jmull]

To add more context:

Mitt Romney, the author of this op-ed, went on to be the republican nominee in 2012. By then this had proven to be a very bad take.

I don't know that he ever really had much chance against an incumbent Obama, but I think this alone would have lost him Michigan... Romney was born there and his father was governer of Michigan so this came off as a betrayal. In any case, this was a good talking point if you wanted to argue he had a lack of vision.

[WeAddValue]

To the credit of his vision, in a 2012 debate he said Russia was a concern in international affairs. Back then everyone looked at him funny like he didn't realize the Soviet Union had fallen 20 years earlier.