Jennifer Rubin may actually be blinded enough by ideology to believe this:

For months, Democrats have claimed that Obama isn’t vulnerable on national security. But that’s nonsense. The “peace process” is in shambles; Russia is more repressive at home and aggressive internationally; Iran is moving toward a nuclear weapons capability; China’s human rights atrocities have multiplied; and Obama is presiding over a dangerous and severe cut in defense spending. A confident and knowledgeable opponent can makes these and other policy decisions into significant liabilities for the president.

The standard way to argue that Obama is vulnerable on national security and foreign policy is to list a number of unfortunate things that are happening in the world, and then pretend that U.S. policy is somehow responsible for “allowing” them. In some cases, these things aren’t happening at all (e.g., Russia becoming “more aggressive internationally”), or they are things over which the U.S. has had little or no influence regardless of the party in power or policy choices (e.g., China’s human rights record, Iran’s nuclear program). The next step is to pretend that hawkish Republican candidates’ preferred policies would more effectively remedy these things (while carefully avoiding any account of how this would happen), which requires pretending that Obama and the hawkish Republican candidates aren’t already in agreement on most issues.

As the collective Republican freak-out over Obama’s “flexibility” remarks suggests, Obama’s opponents on these issues are overly confident and not very knowledgeable. The entire exercise creates the impression of desperate people grasping at straws. Before his latest attempt at demagoguery, Romney was already at a disadvantage on foreign policy. He hasn’t improved matters with his most recent statements. Romney is on record claiming that Russia is “our number one geopolitical foe,” which makes him even less credible on these issues than he was before the manufactured outrage over Obama’s comments started.