Posted on 04/17/2011 9:32:04 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Democrats think they have a candidate who can win Texas’ open Senate seat: Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.
Democrats appear to have recruited retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez to run for the U.S. Senate in Texas, setting the stage for the party to field a well-known candidate in the 2012 race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, a Democrat, confirmed that Democratic Senate campaign chief Patty Murray, D-Wash., was referring to Sanchez on Thursday when she said Democrats were close to announcing a candidate in Texas.
Sanchez, reached by phone at his San Antonio home, asked where the reports of a Senate run came from and then said, “I can neither confirm nor deny.”
Sanchez, the former top military commander in Iraq who was left under a cloud from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, would not discuss the Senate race.
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No.
Well, just as Holder is ‘good’ for HIS people, Sanchez will be good for those poor unfortunates crossing the Rio Grande to steal from us! The Black Plantation and the Hispanic Plantation. Both run by DemonRats and both keeping their ‘slaves’ subjugated and voting straight DemonRat!
I predict that he won’t get above 35%, no matter who he faces.
The Liberals will not have ANY problem with him. They know that ALL DEMOCRATS in the Senate are reliable votes, regardless of how they campaign or even how they voted in the past.
The ONLY thing that matters to libs is winning the seat, and they could care less about Abdul-Grab or anything else.
...we need to get it through our THICK HEADS that the Liberals are out to win first, and if they have to run Reagan’s clone on their ticket to win, they will. You just watch.
Michael Williams is the man who will win this seat.
It will be interesting to watch, for sure! The earth may have to open up and swallow many liberal pundits, like it did for Rumpelstiltskin.
I thought all military were Republican.
Nope, lots of affirmative action going on in the military.
Agree. Michael Williams should be at the top of everyone’s list. He is going to need a lot of financial assistance and I don’t think it’s going to come from the Texas Republicans except for those of us who also support the Tea Party.
I suspect he is running purely out of revenge.
After Abu Ghraib his name was pretty much “mud”, and he was turned down for a fourth star. But oddly enough, he was returned to his old command of V Corps, in Europe.
“On September 6, 2006, Sanchez relinquished command of V Corps in a ceremony at Campbell Barracks, Heidelberg, Germany. Sanchez had commanded the corps for more than 3 years; longer than any previous commander in the unit’s history. **In deference to Sanchez’ longevity**, he relinquished command to General David McKiernan, Commanding General, US Army Europe and Seventh Army, his higher commander, instead of to a successor.”
About the only people in the Army who are ever returned to a previous command do so under a cloud. And there is *never* any “deference to longevity”, in which a command is turned over to a superior, instead of a replacement.
So I’m thinking that instead of “relinquishing” command, he was in fact “relieved” of command and allowed to retire. And he blames W. Bush and the Republicans for not standing up for him.
Abu Ghraib is the least of Sanchez’s problems. Together with Don Rumsfeld and Jerry Bremer, Sanchez was responsible for the deterioration of a conquered Iraq into a full blown insurgency. Sanchez, as the military commander, was responsible for assessing the military situation and preventing an insurgent outbreak. This he failed to do.
Instead, he did Rumsfeld’s and Bremer’s bidding which was to consolidate his forces and prepare to withdraw. He did this despite clear evidence that such a course of action would lead to disaster. Like Darrell, his brother Darrell, and his other brother Darrell, these three morons should be banished from positions of authority forever.
I wonder if Sanchez agrees with his president and would withhold military pay in the event of a budget crisis. BTW our soldiers have received two paychecks for the first two weeks of April. The first arrived on April 14,and represented the time up to the continuing resolution deadline, and the second one on April 15 was for the time the remainder of the pay period after the resolution was passed. Our glorious leader was really going to hold the military hostage.
I see your Sanchez and raise you a Tommy Franks.
YES.
He’s an arrogant, egotistical, perfumed prince enthralled by the trappings of office. He surrounded himself with preatorians in Baghdad and made everyone treat him like he was an Arab sheikh, or some kind of royalty.
A perfect democrat.
Just my opinion, your mileage may vary.
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