Ackerman argued that Mitt's positions are all for show. Larison counters:
It would be encouraging if Ackerman were right, but it doesn’t follow that someone has a good grasp of international affairs and foreign policy because he has a sharp, inquisitive mind. We would like that to be true, but it isn’t. Romney may be well-educated and intelligent, but it doesn’t mean that his judgment on foreign policy is any good. A candidate can be smart and ignorant, and he can let ideology fill in a lot of the gaps in what he doesn’t know.
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