Posted on 07/26/2007 4:42:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
His campaign’s sorry state isn't just a setback for the candidate. It's a sign that the country won't listen to a military man running for president—at a time when it matters most.
July 26, 2007 - In early November 2003, at a time when Fred Dalton Thompson was playing a tough D.A. on "Law and Order," John McCain was cross-examining Donald Rumsfeld for real on Capitol Hill. It was still very early into the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but the as-yet-unacknowledged (by Rummy, that is) insurgency was already out of control. Alone among his fellow GOP senators, McCain blasted Rumsfeld for not putting enough U.S. troops on the ground, and for resorting too soon to "Iraqification"—that is, transferring security to ill-prepared Iraqi forces.
In an extraordinarily blunt speech at the Council on Foreign Relations that grim autumn, McCain warned that ultimately Iraq could become another Vietnam "if we lose popular support in the United States."
The next day, the secretary of Defense asked McCain to breakfast. "I read your speech," harrumphed Rumsfeld (that "must have been an enjoyable experience for him," McCain later joked to me). Then Rummy patiently explained to his fellow Republican why he and his top civilian brass (Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith and the usual crowd of incompetents) would continue to do things the same way. They "believed there was no need for additional troops," McCain later related. McCain had already realized that Rumsfeld was a lost cause.
The real question, the senator suggested to me back then, was whether George W. Bush himself would push Rummy to make changes. "I’d like to see the president fully engaged,” McCain said. Bush needed to be on top of “more details of what’s going on."
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No, actually it's a sign the GOP base won't consider an open-borders/amnesty advocate as their nominee.
And frankly, that's a good sign.
It isn’t because he is a “Military Man”.
Its because nobody trusts him or believes him.
(With good cause.)
Or it's just a sign that if you watch McCain too long, you can see he's always on the edge of becoming unhinged. There's a reason that he has so few allies among those who have worked closely with him.
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Agreed. Also, McCain is former military. Big difference in fact. Currently he is a nut as well as pro amnesty/ open borders.
This author is clueless.
It’s about McCains’ positions.
McCain has clarity only on one issue. I heard him on a morning show. The rest of his stuff is dictated by Senator Kennedy. What a shame...Listening to him on the war made me wish he had a whole brain.
Much like Joe Lieberman in that regard.
It has nothing to do with McCain’s being in the military or not.The reason for Not voting McCain for President was that he was always supporting the wrong team.The Democraps.
He would only vote and support the conservative wing of the Republican party when it came to his benefit.
Actually it is because McCain will stab any and everyone in the back.
LLS
Sadly, the one issue he has clarity on is:
1) the most important issue facing the nation, and
2) a position no other candidate (sans D. Hunter) will take.
Mark my words, Guiliani, Romney, nor West Hollywood Fred will stand up the defeatist and pledge victory.
Mark my words.
The usual claptrap from Newsweek. Thank God they won't be around much longer.
Not that he doesn't deserve to be nuts but he is. Many believe he is also a traitor.
No more posts, please- We have a winner.
Why do you morons not get that Senators Sphinctor, McCaniac and Limply Grahamnesty are nothing more than lame ducks waiting to be replaced.
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