They have both candidates covered:
"Romney turns to advisers to build foreign policy; Team strategy similar to his ’08 campaign" July 08, 2011|By Matt Viser, Globe Staff
WASHINGTON - In addition to Mitchell Reiss, a former diplomat and the president of Washington College in Chestertown, Md., and Kerry Healey, the former Massachusetts lieutenant governor who is among those consulting with Romney on foreign policy, Romney’s core sounding board has generally consisted of Jim Talent, a former senator from Missouri; Dan Senor, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and Cofer Black, former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center.
Wasn't Senor also a Bush Administration propagandist on Iraq, and didn't Black work for Blackwater?
Related: Healey playing key role in Romney campaign
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: At Home With the Healeys
She should feel at home around Mitt.
In certain instances, the team reaches out to others, such as Meghan O’Sullivan, a former Bush administration deputy national security adviser on Iraq and Afghanistan; Walid Phares, a Lebanese-born professor at National Defense University; or Bill Martel, a professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
“It’s a fairly centrist group,’’ said Michael O’Hanlon, a foreign affairs specialist at the Brookings Institution. “It’s not a big neocon group. It’s pragmatic and realist.’’
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The issue of Afghanistan could be divisive among the GOP field. There has been a growing division within the Republican Party over the direction not only of the war effort but over what role the United States should play in international conflicts....
In the GOP field, two-time ambassador Jon M. Huntsman Jr. has the most extensive international experience....
Huntsman, however, has taken one of the more radical approaches, saying the United States should reduce its 100,000 troops in Afghanistan to 15,000. In part, he was citing the growing federal deficit as a reason to wind down the costly war.
Related:
"Representative Ron Paul of Texas took perhaps the hardest line. “I’d bring them home as quickly as possible,’’ Paul said. “And I would get them out of Iraq as well. And I wouldn’t start a war in Libya.’’
Also see: Ron Paul "I'm the Commander in Chief - I Tell the Generals what to do!"
A Huntsman spokesman said his group of informal advisers consists of three prominent Republicans: Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations; Brent Scowcroft, a national security adviser to Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush; and Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush....
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Meet your next president, Amerika:
"Obama making presence felt in Republican fight
Some Democrats said they increasingly view Romney as the GOP field’s greatest credible threat to Obama should the former Massachusetts governor survive the party primary process. ]
Related: Romney 49%, Obama 46%
Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41%
Also see: Romney vs. Ron Paul
“He’s the only one who’s plausible,’’ said Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who has tested public impressions of Romney in recent surveys. “He looks like he could be president.’’
The perfect corporate candidate!
A June poll of likely voters by Greenberg’s Democracy Corps group found Romney in a statistical tie with Obama in a hypothetical general election matchup....
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Also see: Mormons on center stage
Romney gets a boost from new funding environment
