WHAT SHOULD ROMNEY DO? – AT 9:07 A.M. ET:   There will be attempts to muzzle Mitt Romney during this foreign-policy crisis.  So-called "responsible" elements will say that we must be bi-partisan.

That is rubbish.

Bi-partistanship was John McCain's response to the financial crisis that erupted in the midst of the 2008 campaign.  McCain, as you'll recall, suspended his campaign and returned to Washington to help manage the crisis.  He quickly learned that the Obama people had no intention of doing the same thing.  McCain came off looking weak and confused.

Yesterday, Mitt Romney properly condemned the anemic response of the administration to the assault on our Cairo embassy.  One of Obama's political hacks replied that he was shocked, shocked, that Romney would make a political statement at a time like that.  Oh my, oh my.

Romney should say today, and vigorously, that Americans have a right to hear from their presidential candidates in this situation – that he will support Obama when he's right, and condemn him when he's wrong, that we will not let our democracy be held hostage by terrorists.

There is a risk to Romney in this.  Americans tend to side with the president during a crisis, but maybe not this time, as the Obamans have botched pretty much everything.  Obama was on the phone with Bibi Netanyahu last night, trying to make nice after it was clear that the White House looked ridiculous in turning down Netanyahu's request for a meeting with the president.  This came a week after the Democratic National Convention left God and Jerusalem out of the Democratic platform.  The Dems are plunging to the left, and maybe the White House realizes that the appearances are awful.

Go Romney. 

I'd even go so far as to suggest that the speaker of the House call the House back into session for a full inquiry into the Cairo and Libya attacks, and our appeasement of Iran.  And I'd have the House Foreign Affairs Committee drag our shrill, confused, secretary of state into a public session to explain herself.  Maybe she could send Bill instead.  That seems to be the style these days.

September 12, 2012