Meet Ambassador Mitchell Reiss

I had a very pleasant chat today with Ambassador Mitchell Reiss (here's a short bio). Ambassador Reiss was a panelist at the Current Strategy Forum here in Newport, RI today, and during one of the breaks I strolled up and chatted him up. Instantly engaging, very interesting, and quite witty, Reiss served as a senior foreign policy advisor to Mitt Romney during his recent Presidential primary run. We talked a bit about foreign policy, the current President (Reiss was very fair about giving the President his due where he deserved it) and Republican presidential prospects for 2012 (he was not sanguine).

Ambassador Reiss is now an official at William and Mary, so I couldn't resist asking why he'd take a job at the Commonwealth's second tier school....he laughed and said that UVA was too slow to offer a job.

I'm beginning to keep a mental note of the kinds of people who are ultimately going to be behind a Republican Renaissance someday....Ambassador Reiss is one of them.