dylan87

Good thing for the Republican party that it is going to be Romney. If you take a look at the campaign finances up to this point he is the only canidate who could actually keep up with Obama on the money trail. The other would have no chance winning against Obamas billion dollar campaign machine, despite his debate skills.

First two points are good. The second one very important, especially since Republican canidates are taking such an extreme position on Iran already. Right, of course Europe has to solve it's problem by themselves. But America can of course aid their European partners in some points. The IMF is a huge player, and has a lot of US funding. The rating agencies are based in the US, thus the government has influence there as well. But in the first place, ackknowledgeing the problem and it's impact on America would be a plus.

Irans rhetoric in the last couple of weeks has been quite intersting. Even for Iran, it has been pretty drastic. Of course it's all just words with no actual impact, but why now? Any internal struggle they need to abstract their own people from?

As meantioned by others after me: US wars: now that Irak is gone the Strategy in Afghanistan should be the main talking point. Obama has his plans on the table, the main question is: what are the Republican canidates thinking besides their usual "Iran is bad" "Terrorists are bad" rhetorics. As I meantioned earlier: The current economic crises is already a huge topic in the current primaries, but completely neglecting the world wide connections the US economy depends on. Republican canidates have very much made clear by now what they think about Europe, but do they realize that the debt crises (which they never talk about ever) actually could have a pretty heavy (or has) impact on the US economy? A point of interst would be, what is the next president going to do about it, besides dealing with their own huge deficit.

Foreign policy should be definately an issue. After it is neglected by the republican field right now, it hopefully will come up in the general election. The republican canidates debate foreign policy and talk about fighter planes for india or how they would bomb Iran (important issue, but not relevant at this point), but don't meantion europe or it's debt crisis with one world. A foreign policy issue that actually can have an impact on the US economy, the most important issue in this election?