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To: Steelfish

No thanks. He calls himself a Rockefeller Republican and that’s all I need to know about his leanings.

From the article linked below:

“Petraeus is registered to vote as a Republican in New Hampshire—he once described himself to a friend as a northeastern Republican, in the tradition of Nelson Rockefeller—but he said that around 2002, after he became a two-star general, he stopped voting.”

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/09/08/080908fa_fact_coll#ixzz0cG9wwtbj


26 posted on 01/10/2010 4:37:56 PM PST by nomoremods
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To: nomoremods
but he said that around 2002, after he became a two-star general, he stopped voting.”

I think that's terrible. It's a bad example and if true he should have kept it under his hat.
29 posted on 01/10/2010 4:44:45 PM PST by visualops (Pray for the USA)
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