Posted on 05/02/2007 1:34:28 PM PDT by presidio9
In my poker game, we split the pot between the "best" and "worst" hands — which encourages more people to stay in and to bet more so that, with the right cards and smart playing, there is a nice pile of chips to win. Consequently, every player's dream is to get dealt a two-way hand, one that wins both high and low.
Over the past two years, President Bush and his Republican colleagues have been dealing great hands to their Democratic adversaries. The Iraq war, Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley, Randy Cunningham, Harriet Miers, Scooter Libby, Alberto Gonzales, the RNC e-mail accounts. The great hands just keep coming. But card players know that you have good and bad runs. A key measure of a player is how well he or she maximizes profits from the winners and minimizes losses from marginal hands.
The same is true in politics. One person who ought to know this is the senior senator from Nevada, of all places, Majority Leader Harry Reid. But Reid took the winning Iraq card that the Bush administration dealt to him and proceeded to misplay the hand, telling reporters: "this war is lost."
What, you may ask, is wrong with that? Wasn't Reid simply making an accurate statement? Perhaps, but there are at least three things wrong with Reid's strategy. First and foremost, the Senate Democratic leader turned himself into the messenger of defeat, which of course quickly became the message itself: Republicans have been extraordinarily stupid in recent months, but they still know what to do if opportunity knocks. "When a top Democrat tells reporters he believes the war is lost," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, "he is telling American troops they have failed. And he is telling our enemies they have won.
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If you heard that on Hannity, then what you heard was Hannity mixing in Dhimmi Harry's "The war is lost" quote into the Dem surrender vote press conference.
Of course, it's quite possible the bozo repeated it on his own today, too....
Proving that the Democrats and their apologists view the Iraq war solely through the lens of politics. It's not that Reid was wrong to label the war as lost. Oh, no! Instead he was wrong not to politicize any blame created thereby.
Democrats and their handmaidens in the drive-by media are truly disgusting.
Emphazise and repeat bump.
Everything has been politicized since 1/20/93.
Spell check, spell check, sp...
And do you recall who originally issue those instructions?
Bill and Hillary learned well.
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