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Posted on 08/08/2012 7:17:28 PM PDT by CaptainKrunch
The political world is abuzz with speculation about whether Mitt Romney plans to choose CIA Director David Petraeus to be his vice-presidential running mate on the GOP ticket – but Petraeus’ positions on a variety of issues could upset conservatives if he is indeed selected for the slot.
The retired Army four-star general, who has been lionized by many Republicans, led the charge to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military – more than a year before the Obama administration repealed the armed forces’ “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
In March 2010, Petraeus declared “the time has come” for the military to reconsider the rule. In the same month, Petraeus told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria he served with homosexuals in the CIA and didn’t believe troops would have difficulty adjusting to working with openly homosexual service members.
He has expressed support for Obama’s calls for shutting down Guantanamo Bay prison and condemned American use of interrogation strategies such as waterboarding.
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Yeh!
At least two guys I know of had this guys # !!!!!
See Col sellin, and Admiral Fallon...
Semper Watching!!!!!
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This is exactly what I said on the earlier thread.
Petraeus is NOT a conservative. He would be a lousy VP.
It seems the higher the rank, the redder they get.
Me neither really. Red blooded patriotic Americans are outnumbered in every sector of society it seems. Or at least, in the power positions of society.
Even Mitt knows a Rockeyfeller NE Pubbie will not work.
BTTT
Petraeus is CFR. Enough said.
Now how would any informed American not see that the NWO has taken over here & elsewhere in so-called democracies. Like the saying, We are screwed. We are owned by the elites. These elections are nothing but frauds & the sheeple are either ignorant to the fact or lazy. Either way we are screwed.
Why would Romney pic an Obama appointee?
Do we not have other choices?
Bush sure knew how to pick and drag up crappy IR “experts”, lol.
In four short years he went from commanding the surge, to this.
You could be too for a minimal fee.
Gen. Patraous wrote the manual on COIN (counterinsurgency) for the army - the “winning hearts and minds” strategy....it’s working so well (/s).
No thanks.
Petreaus is dirty...
Proof: Obama put him as CIA Chief.. Unless Obama is stupid..
I see no proof of that.. Obama is not a patriot but he is not stupid..
General Petraus is by all accounts and from every perspective an exemplary individual and one of our finest generals but we do not seek the same values in our paladins on the political front that we do from our champions in military arts. There is a tendency among conservatives to assume that because a man demonstrates the physical courage necessary to rise to the rank of general he automatically possesses the philosophical mindset of a conservative. Perhaps this is because conservatives traditionally support the military and progressives instinctively oppose it.
The military is a hierarchical organization which functions from the top down but a representative democracy should be a societal organization with power percolating from the bottom up. The military ideally should operate according to the conception of a single mind ultimately responsible for the success or failure of a mission. A representative democracy must operate with some level of consensus and responsibility is inevitably diffuse as is the authority and power to effectuate a policy. Few indeed are the men like Dwight Eisenhower who can function well in both worlds. Ulysses Grant did not function quite so well but George Washington did. My guess is that it would not be liberals alone who would have been unhappy with president George S Patton.
The qualities of character which lead to success on the battlefield or even in the infighting common within the military hierarchy are not the same qualities that make for a successful politician. Dwight Eisenhower is a shining example of an individual who was successful in both fields but if one looks at his career as a general one will see that he was primarily a "political" general who acted both as intermediary, buffer, conciliator, disciplinarian and judge of competing personalities and agendas rather than a traditional field general moving units across the map.
It would be an interesting exercise to compare Eisenhower's method of governing for eight years as president of the United States with Douglas MacArthur's far more authoritarian method of governing Japan in the postwar years while relating those differences to their different styles of generalship.
The reflexive yearning for the man on horseback is a virus lurking in the spinal cord of every human requiring only the proper stimuli to activate it and bring it forth. One would expect liberals to succumb to the temptation because they are always whoring after the man rather than the principle, they are always anointing the next Messiah, but they are shielded from the temptation to invest virtue into a uniform by their reflexive animus toward the military. This is especially marked in an era in which the United States military is the organization literally in the front lines defending the whole world against the onrush of socialist utopia and its opportunistic bedfellow, Islamism.
It is a human tendency to look to the man rather than the principle. We argue on these threads all the time by reference to authority and we attempt to disparage others' points by calling them Rinos or associating their views or the source of their views with progressivism. Similarly, we tend reflexively to accept an argument if we think it is coming from a conservative icon. This is a very dangerous tendency which leads to error and ultimate political defeat.
For every Allen West we will probably encounter a Colin Powell. Uniforms, no more than clothes, do not make the man. Emphatically, race does not make the man. A successful military career tells us the man has personal courage both physical and moral, and an ability to penetrate the fog of war but it does not tell us that he possesses the skills necessary to articulate a conservative philosophy, energize electorate, win the election, and govern with consistent conservative principles. It tells us he is a man of high quality who is worth a respectful look.
Watch out the rombots will be all over you for slagging off the guy because he is the nominee or the supposed one anyway.
Looks like Drudge is putting Pawlenty on the short list with Petreus.
Just what I would expect from the candidate Obama himself and his media stooges chose to be our nominee and thus give us the illusion of choice this November.
One need look no farther than which president gave a general his star. I suspect Petraeus got his from BJ. No Dem president is going to promote to general any Col. with a whiff of conservative about him. That is why he is (Ret.) COL. Allan West. He would have never made general. NoDem would allow it and no Rep. would endorse it. The Good Old Boys in the GOP in DC will do everything they can to keep folks like West and Palin out.
Feelin' suicidal?
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Wesley Clark v2.0?
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I respectfully disagree. As VP, Petraeus' stature would diminish Romney's. Let's face it, Biden plays his role perfectly by making Obama look good by comparison.
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Great because you did it.
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