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Politics is not an ego-free business. And why should it be? I got a taste of that this week as New Jersey's Chris Christie and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took themselves out of presidential consideration. I saw the other…

Mitt Romney speaks to a group of veterans in Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 6. Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images Foreign policy, specifically the war in Iraq and U.S. anti-terrorism efforts, were front and center in both the Democratic and Republican…