Posted on 01/30/2008 6:57:35 PM PST by Notwithstanding
Former governor Mitt Romney Wednesday endorsed President Bush’s plan for a troop increase in Iraq, breaking his public silence on the troop ``surge’’ by arguing that a stable Iraq is only possible if US forces can provide security to Iraqi civilians.
Hours before Bush spoke Wednesday night, Romney issued a statement calling for five additional combat brigades in Baghdad and two Marine regiments in Al-Anbar province -- precisely the plan for as many as 21,500 new troops that was outlined by the Bush administration before the president’s speech.
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Of course he did, McCain lied.
Good post. Romney is my guy now. McPain will be the death of the GOP.
I can not stand someone who is dishonest, and McCain kept up the act, that he was correct, just like Dan Rather with that damn fake Memo.
Eat dirt, McQueeq, you lying bastard.
We need, now more than ever, to make sure that the Left does not define us as an ideology, that they don’t marginalize us, and that they don’t read our eulogy while we are still alive and fighting.
And now more than ever, we cannot let them pick our nominee for them.
McCain is THEIR nominee, not ours.
But wait.. Romney waited TEN WHOLE DAYS into 2007 before he endorsed the surge. CLEARLY, he was waiting to see the outcome of the surge before he took a position... </s>
WHY? oh WHY?? Is it so hard for people to see what a fraud McCain is?
our nominee for them
should be:
not let them pick our nominee for us.
Exactly - he has the facts wrong (Romney actually endorsed the surge even BEFORE it was announced).
Bye, Johnny, I hope.
Yes. He endorsed the surge AFTER the President announced it, and after having taken his own time in doing so.
McCain’s point is key, and missing it requires a deliberate lapse in memory. The key point during this phase of the debate was in November and December 2006, when it seemed like the Democratic Congress might really try and force a retreat.
Romney was silent then.
Well, I’m making a contribution to Romney’s campaign.
Don’t care what the polls say about McCain being able to beat Hillary, not much difference between those two, as far as I’m concerned.
There was no democratic congress in November and December of 2006. The Democrats did not take over until January.
In November/December, we were confirming Petreaus, and Putting together the Surge strategy, and digesting the ISG report.
“WHY? oh WHY?? Is it so hard for people to see what a fraud McCain is?”
For one thing, the very people who should be backing Romney are railing against him. You have a guy who called for the wire-tapping of mosques if need be back in 2005, and I hear people over and over again believing this nonsense McCain blurped onto the political stage.
Romney was surging, rising in the polls, and all McCain had to do was lie. Somehow he has more credibility on this issue than Romney when he wants to close Gitmo (because the world doesn’t like it) and ban waterboarding.
He’s hiding behind his uniform to get away with things that would absolutely murder Romney, Thompson, or any other guy in the race. Can you imagine the explosion that would occur if Romney were to take McCain’s stances on Gitmo, for instance?
Actually, at the time, the Boston Globe considered Romney and McCain to be of one mind with the President:
“[Romney’s] position aligns him not only with Bush but also with Senator John McCain of Arizona, one of Romney’s leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. McCain has called for sending more troops to Iraq for more than three years, and has pronounced himself supportive of the president’s decision for a ``surge’’ in the troop level. For both Romney and McCain, casting their lot with the president on Iraq is a gamble that carries political peril. Unlike the other potential GOP candidates — who have remained mum on how they’d handle Iraq — they are now on record in supporting a controversial move that critics argue will likely worsen the situation in Iraq.”
McCain IS the establishment candidate - he’s not ours. As long as Huckabee is in the race he will take votes away from Romney and help McCain, because Huckabee has NO CHANCE to get the nomination - and never did.
He is only staying in the race to stop Romney. I have no doubt he cut a deal with McCain a loooong time ago.
He is as phony as they come.
December 17, 2007 The Huckabee Hustle By Selwyn Duke
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/12/the_huckabee_hustle.html
Pete Wehner at NRO took issue with the first two paragraphs of a Huckabee essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, particularly the claim by Huckabee that we’re too mean around the world; we’re trying to dominate the world, and we need to be more like a top high school student, modest about our abilities and achievements, generous, and then we will be loved. If we keep dominating people, we’ll be despised, and “the Bush administration’s arrogant and bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.”
National Review Online http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjgzMzYzY2Y1ZjAxNTg5YzAzNzY2MjMwOWYxNWM0ZTc=
Romney jumped on a chance at the debate tonight to set the record straight with McCain. He and they actually started both looking pretty foolish. In one of Ron Paul’s rare moments of lucidity he jumped them both over wasting time on semantics - they both looked bad after Paul’s comments.
Before that while they were in a cat fight. Romney did make a point about last minute attacks, but McCain scored on pointing about Romney wouldn’t comment because “he was a governor” before then became a presidential candidate shortly after. McCain was caught in a political trick but Romney was clearly using his “governor” status to avoid taking a stand before he tested the wind. It was a zero gain for each. McCain came across as snide, but Romney came across as fustered and as someone who can’t make his point and shut up. It got tiring listening to him say the same thing over and over. He would have done better to just say it the first time then drop it. The cat fight made him look as bad as McCain who had done something sneaky.
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