Posted on 08/31/2007 9:59:36 AM PDT by ZGuy
In today's Washington Times "Inside The Ring" column Bill Gertz reports three Republican presidential candidates are considering retired Army General Tommy Franks as a vice presidential running mate.
General Franks, commander of U.S. Central Command from June 2000 until he retired in 2003, led American and Coalition troops in two strategically unprecedented campaigns in two years – Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq.
Franks would boost Republican prospects in the South and provide an articulate spokesman for winning the global war against Islamist extremism and a counter to the Democrats' current defeatism:
"All Democratic candidates overtly oppose the Iraq war and most favor ending the Bush administration's military and paramilitary emphasis on fighting global terrorism. A Democratic administration in 2009 likely would restore the approach of the Clinton administration, which favored law enforcement and diplomacy over military action.
Reviving those failed Clinton policies will only bring us more terrorist attacks such as the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; the 1995 bombing of U.S. military headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the 1996 bobming of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia; the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the 2000 attack against the USS Cole in Yemen, and 9/11."
I got light-headed there for a minute.
Me too!
barney is being considered for the dim tickets I heard. Both the purple one and gay one.
Franks makes as much sense as pretty boy Wesley Clark.
Why not tap Shinseki? You want to look good to the American people, admit to the mistakes of the Republican administration and republican controlled congress of the 2000-2004 era by bringing in the man who called Bush out on the rug months before we invaded Iraq.
The big wig armchair warriors in the Rep. national party would never allow such an offense to their manliness to occur. And everyone in the country would see through such a ploy as shear duplicity and vote pandering. Just like putting Franks on the ballot would.
This post wasn’t meant to take away from Franks accomplished career, this was aimed at the politicos who float idiotic rumors like this.
“I got light-headed there for a minute.”
Better light in the head than light in the loafers.
You got light-headed, I felt momentarily light in the loafers at the mere thought of My Boy Lollipop in the Oval Office, or (more likely) tapping on the door, trying to get in.....
Sadly, the only postwar President to come directly from the military was Ike. We all know that Ike was too accomodating to the opposition party then.
General Franks as a lightning rod?
Because that is what he would become, under any Republican Presidency. Not because of what he is, or what he says, but that is how the opponents arrayed against the Republicans direct their attentions. If one studies how the attacks are now directed agains the Bush Administration, very few of then actually land on Bush himself. They hit at Attorneys General, Secretaries of State, Secretaries of Defense, and high-ranking White House aides. They even spend more time running down Dick Cheney, than George W. Bush. Bush, they dismiss as not being very smart, and yet, somehow, he keeps on outfoxing them.
But really, being a general and in charge of marshalling a widespread and diverse military is WAY better preparation for the job than idling away on the back bench in the Senate.
See my #26, to see how painful the thought was for me.
See my #26, to see how painful the thought was for me.
I believe both Quayle and Ford were US senators prior to being VP.
Check that. Just Quayle was a senator.
It probably goes without saying the the MSM would have a veritable FIELD DAY with this, the idea of the first Career Military Man in either Potus or Veep positions since
who?>.....Eisenhower??
He would be a big help to the GOP in Florida and Virginia.
“though I’m still rooting for a Fred Thompson/ J.C. Watts ticket.”
From your keyboard to God’s ears.
You and me both. That was a close one.
LOL. Just LOL.
I’m more likely to be vice president. XD
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