REPUBLICAN PRIORITIES: AN OBSERVATION

The argument being made by Mitt Romney and his backers is that the Obama administration is angrier at the makers of a Muslim-bashing video than it is at the people who've been attacking our embassies, and who killed our ambassador in Libya.

The problem is, Mitt Romney is clearly angrier at Barack Obama than he is at the people who've been attacking our embassies, and who killed our ambassador in Libya.

And Romney's backers are clearly angrier at the media than they are at the people who've been attacking our embassies, and who killed our ambassador in Libya:

* Wall Street Journal editorial page: "Romney Offends the Pundits"
* John Podhoretz in the New York Post: "The Media Lash Out: Bashing Mitt's Mideast Comments"
* Erick Erickson: "The American Media Beclowned Themselves Yesterday"

Romney has a press release out now titled "What They're Saying About President Obama's 'Weak Leadership,'" featuring quotes from the likes of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and those great foreign policy experts Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry. I'm looking in vain, however, for a press release on the Romney Web site that just says the attacks are abhorrent and indefensible and doesn't say how much more awesome Romney is than Obama.

The problem isn't that Romney initially politicized this. It's that he's consistently done nothing else. He has no plan. He has no ideas.

He does, of course, have a catchphrase. "No apology" -- that seems to be the totality of his plan for dealing with situations like this. That seems to be the totality of his backers' plan.

He and his backers do, admittedly, know who their enemies are. Unfortunately for America, their enemies are not the perpetrators or instigators of these embassy attacks.

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UPDATE: Mitt finally tones it down.