Of course there should be private timetables between the US and Iraqi government. It’s part of having a plan and strategy. The problem comes when you get asshats demanding publicly announced timetables.
But Romney is a RINO, can’t win, weak candidate, the hair, etc ad nauseum.
Don’t get why people hate the guy. I can understand people who have some trepidation about him, but there’s a contingent on FR that just outright hates the guy.
I want us out of the middle east as well, tomorrow would be fine.
Then,
blow the friggen place into ice.
Not worth discussing. Personally I support the guy who wants to just move the Iraqis aside and pump the oil out until the place is worthless and empty.
McCain’s buddy Senator Graham was on Hannity and C. tonight, and Sean ripped into him on this. Graham refused to answer, just looked slimy and kept repeating the talking points. I considered it the closest we’ll get to an admission of guilt.
McCain and his advisers aren't stupid, they know full well the media will cover for them no matter what. That's why it's going to be all the more gratifying to see should he lose Florida given how relentless his shills have been trying to shove him down our throats.
But McCain's straight talk express swerved into the mud on this one, and the fact that he chose to do so suggests some desperation. He will only get away with it if the MSM who have invested so heavily in his success cover for him.
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McCain’s comments are a desperation ploy. He’s just an old bitter man seeing his chances of becoming President going down the drain. As a conservative, I would never vote for him. I’d rather be front stabbed by Hillary than back stabbed by McCain.
Go Mitt!
On August 31, 1967, George Romney, the voluble, vigorous three-term governor of Michigan and former automotive executive, walked into a Detroit TV station to be interviewed by a local broadcaster with a lousy hairpiece. For more than a year, Romney had been talked about as the Republicans’ best chance for winning the White House in 1968. But the national campaign trail, at first welcoming, had become bumpy. Reporters pressed Romney repeatedly to explain his ever-evolving and often confusing position on military involvement in Vietnam, which he had strongly supported after a visit to South Vietnam in 1965 but later declared a tragic mistake. Polls showed his lead fading.
So, during that August interview, when he was asked to explain his inconsistent position on the war, Romney replied, “Well, you know, when I came back from Vietnam, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get.”
There, he said it. One word, brainwashing, and his presidential campaign would never recover. Worse, that one politically charged word became not just the shorthand for his aborted White House run, but the bumper sticker for his entire life’s work. Forget the poor boy who rose, Horatio Alger-style, to national acclaim. Forget the visionary of Detroit, who successfully championed the compact car over what he termed “gas-guzzling dinosaurs.” Forget the straight-talking politician who steered Michigan government from financial ruin and pushed through a new state constitution. In the four decades since that interview, there has been a Pavlovian response to the American political trivia question, “Who was George Romney?” Answer: The brainwashed guy.
There’s no taking it back.
Mitt Romney is a governor, doesn’t really matter what he said, he was no ones representative.
What did the Congresscritters from MA say?
**Did Mitt Call for Withdrawal in Iraq? **
If he did, he is cooked. That’s a dimocrat line.
A vote for Myth is a vote for an ULTRA-LIBERAL Republican.
Another last-minute dirty trick by McCain. Did he apologize to Mitt?
January 26, 2008 6:16
McCain’s Conversation Changer: A Misleading Low Blow
Posted by Michael Scherer
To review: In the course of a few hours, McCain said that Romney once wanted to set a date to withdraw from Iraq, accused him of working on the same side as Hillary Clinton in the Iraq debate, and accused him of disrespecting American servicemen and women. Is any of this true? Not that much.
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http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/01/mccains_conversation_changer_a.html
Me either, the fact is that privately - within a small circle in government - there has got to be a timetable, bench marks, etc. - for McCain to use this is unforgivable - and - I’m sick of hearing about his hero status - separate that fact - if it is a true fact - from the McCain that we all know - I don’t even like him, primarily for what he’s done in the past few decades. Plus, the hero thing is getting old and used way to much.