[Notwithstanding]

Hat tip to Ann Coulter, who highlights the same facts but lists a different source for the information.

[AmericanMade1776]

Of course he did, McCain lied.

[BUSHdude2000]

Good post. Romney is my guy now. McPain will be the death of the GOP.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Eat dirt, McQueeq, you lying bastard.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

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.

[SomeCallMeTim]

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?

[manic4organic]

Bye, Johnny, I hope.

[furquhart]

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.

[psjones]

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.

[AmericanMade1776]

McLie is working hard to earn his Pinnochio badges.

[eyedigress]

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.

``It is impossible to defeat the insurgency without first providing security for the Iraqi people,’’ Romney said in a statement released Wednesday morning.

``In consultation with generals, military experts and troops who have served on the ground in Iraq, I believe securing Iraqi civilians requires additional troops.’’

[Sola Veritas]

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.

[Sola Veritas]

“Romney issued a statement calling for five additional combat brigades in Baghdad and two Marine regiments in Al-Anbar province”

Romney knows zilch about the military, he was just repeating what someone told him to say. McCain may be obnoxious, but there is no denying he owns that issue on understanding the military and how it works.

It is a losing strategy for Romney to play armchair general. He doesn’t have the gravitas for that.

[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting. I guess supporting the president's surge strategy is what McCain means by surrendering. Interesting too that Brownback and Hagel both bailed out on the president and now are nowhere to be found. Whaddasupprise.