Original Article on Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Muscatine, Iowa Mitt Romney swatted at Ron Paul on Wednesday, a shift for the candidate who has largely ignored the Texas congressman and a possible sign at the shifting nature of the race in the state that in less than a week holds the first presidential voting contest in the nation. During a stop at a coffee shop here on the banks of the Mississippi River, a voter asked him about America's relationship with Israel. After arguing that President Obama has deeply damaged relations with a nation that is a vital United States ally, Romney turned to Iran and criticized Paul's isolationist foreign policy, though not by name. "The greatest threat that Israel faces and frankly the greatest threat the world faces is a nuclear Iran," ...(read more)