More from secret video: Romney says Mideast peace "unthinkable"

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 4:08 AM PDT

2012/09/18 · 04:08

More from the secret video of Romney at a private fundraiser at the home of private equity manager Marc Leder in Boca Raton, Florida:

I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say, "There's just no way." And so what you do is you say, "You move things along the best way you can." You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. We live with that in China and Taiwan. All right, we have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it.

He also expresses disinterest in possible solutions:

On the other hand, I got a call from a former secretary of state. I won't mention which one it was, but this individual said to me, you know, I think there's a prospect for a settlement between the Palestinians and the Israelis after the Palestinian elections. I said, "Really?" And, you know, his answer was, "Yes, I think there's some prospect." And I didn't delve into it.

He mocks Obama as naive:

The president's foreign policy, in my opinion, is formed in part by a perception he has that his magnetism, and his charm, and his persuasiveness is so compelling that he can sit down with people like Putin and Chávez and Ahmadinejad, and that they'll find that we're such wonderful people that they'll go on with us, and they'll stop doing bad things. And it's an extraordinarily naive perception.

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Mark Penn: great strategist or greatest strategist?

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 6:36 AM PST

2008/02/14 · 06:36

This diary has no substance; I just wanted to collect some of Mark Penn's greatest hits in one place, so we can deride him some more.

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