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.
“General Franks as a lightning rod?”
YES..(wink). What better way for the democrats to show how they truly hate our military and everything it stands for?
I can hear the democrat roar now and the average red blooded American would get to see their true colors!
But... what do I know?....lol
Seems to me that whoever our ultimate candidate chooses, they will become an instant ‘lightening rod’!!
Might be pretty hard for the Clintonistas to have much of a negative dossier on a man who has spent the last 40 years in the military too.
He'd make a good one. He'd store up the electrons and return them, with prejudice.