Plamegate: Bad For McCain (Vanity)

[sissyjane]

What are you talking about?? McCain has a snowballs chance in you-know-where...

Enough of the vanities already. Isn't there a daily limit?

[faithincowboys]

Did anybody in '92 give a crap about Iran Contra... they raised it. McCain, should he make it to the General, will have the world fall on him. I think Giuliani will too. Despite the new media, I don't think we are prepared for what the media and the Clinton war room will do to the nominee. Unlike Giuliani, McCain won't have the base solid on his side. This is merely me saying, "For those looking to a post-Bush world, McCain isn't the guy."

[piasa]

MARCH 31?, 2005 : (ROBB-SILBERMAN BIPARTISAN COMMISSION REPORT SAYS DEFECTOR "CURVEBALL," WIDELY ATTRIBUTED TO BEING LINKED TO THE INC- WAS NOT INFLUENCED, CONTROLLED BY OR CONNECTED TO THE INC - See CHALABI) The most damning charge is that he cooked up the phony intelligence that led to the invasion of Iraq. In the words of that noted foreign policy sage Maureen Dowd: "Ahmad Chalabi conned his neocon pals, thinking he could run Iraq if he gave the Bush administration the smoking gun it needed to sell the war." Such calumnies are so ingrained by now that La Dowd published that sentence on Sunday [April 3, 2005], three days after the release of the Robb-Silberman report that refutes it. The bipartisan commission headed by Chuck Robb and Laurence Silberman did not give Chalabi a totally clean bill of health. It found that two INC-supplied defectors were "fabricators." But it also determined that the most notorious liar popularly linked to the INC — a defector known as "Curveball" who provided false information on Saddam Hussein's biological weapons — "was not influenced by, controlled by, or connected to the INC." "In fact, over all," the Robb-Silberman report concluded, "CIA's postwar investigations revealed that INC-related sources had a minimal impact on prewar assessments." Translation: The CIA's attempts to scapegoat Chalabi for its own failures won't wash.------ "The friend we betrayed - (in defense of Ahmad Chalabi),"MAX BOOT, JEWISH WORLD REVIEW.COM, APRIL 8, 2005 Friday, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1380149/posts

[mhx]

Oh OK, I buy that. It doesn't make any sense to take him out too early.

I think actually the right thing for Hillary to do is just keep the investigation going, keep Karl Rove distracted, never come out with any real charges about anything, but just keep the air of corruption over the administration as long as possible in the press. We already can see that when Rove isn't paying 100% attention, it's a problem.

[faithincowboys]

And McCain's proximity to that won't be out of blast range.

[Mr. Mojo]

This is merely me saying, "For those looking to a post-Bush world, McCain isn't the guy."

Not exactly a revelation. I suspect only a handful of Freepers are looking to McCain to lead the post-Bush GOP.

[faithincowboys]

Yeah, since when does Max Boot's persuasive analysis persuade the liberals in the MSM?

McCain was out front on Iraq since the 90s. The MSM, in it's typical slanted way, will make him pay for it in the '08 General.

[layman]

I just feel sorry for the poor folks in Florida who might have lost their roofs along with their electricity .... they probably have no idea all this important stuff is going on in Washington. And even worse, without television they're oblivious to the tension and anticipation which has gripped the nation .... no, gripped the WORLD! .... regarding the political ramifications hanging in the balance. I've been recording everything from all the networks for posterity ... possibly for a time capsule. this is important sh#t, man.

[Beckwith]

If McCain is the Republican candidate, I start voting for my senator and leave the President vote blank.

[MikeA]

I really don't think anyone other than a few left-wing loonies really care all that much about Chalabi, not enough certainly to make it a campaign issue, especially since nothing has ever stuck to the guy in terms of all the mud thrown at him.

[sinkspur]

McCain, should he make it to the General, will have the world fall on him. I think Giuliani will too.

If McCain or Guiliani make it to the general, they will beat Hillary like a drum. And I think either of them could win enough primaries to do it.

[faithincowboys]

Well, I think the NRO people are saying that McCain is assiduously courting the think tank types and he basically got a you da man chorus at Heritage recently.

Many people are saying McCain isn't so born again, he did go to Nam-- no draft evasion charges, he wants to cut pork and he is very pro-Israel. I think lots of "smart" people think he can win and the McCainiacs from 2000 are ready to ride again.

[JOE43270]

I respect McCain though I believe he is the Manchurian Canidate. Not from the modern movie, the one from the late forties or early fifties. He did alot for America though I don't understand what the North Vietnamese did to him.

[rpellegrini]

McCain can't win anyway. If it were Hillary against McCain I wouldn't vote for either and I suspect a lot of conservatives feel that way.

[sgtbono2002]

If the media doesnt get indictments they will crap their pants.

[faithincowboys]

I really hope they don't. But I think Fitzgerald is enjoying this... this is an ego high. He has the fate of the Republic in his hands. If he just shuts up and walks away, he'll be a bad guy for life to the Left. If he brings down high placed neocons and cripples Bush, he'll get a lifetime supply of kisses to his ass...the Woodward golden parachute. It's a hard thing to turn down.

[kenth]

McCain is bad for McCain.

[ConservativeGreek]

they will crap their pants

If Fitzgerald doesn't get Rove his life will be in danger!

[Peach]

You never give up, do you?

[ConservativeGreek]

they will crap their pants

If Fitzgerald doesn't get Rove his life will be in danger!