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Senator's call for pullout divides GOP
Contracosta Times ^ | 08/25/2007 03:07:07 AM PDT | Margaret Talev

Posted on 08/25/2007 2:47:57 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

INDIANAPOLIS -- As hundreds of Republican activists from a dozen Midwestern states gathered Friday to talk about the 2008 election, one of the more divisive topics amid the vendor booths and candidate tables was a senior GOP senator's call for President Bush to bring some troops home from Iraq by Christmas.

Many delegates were angry with Sen. John Warner of Virginia, a former Navy secretary and one of Congress' most respected military voices. They said he seemed to be undercutting Bush, selling short recent reports of military successes and pre-empting a mid-September report to Congress from top military and diplomatic officials.

"I assume he's sincere, but so what? He's a politician. He's not a general," said James Bopp, 59, a Republican National Committee member from Indiana. "It's apparent that the change in strategy that Bush has initiated through the surge is being successful," Bopp said. "So we should pursue it to victory."

Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who visited the biennial Midwest Republican Leadership Conference, called Warner's stance disappointing and "premature."

"It's almost as if the food critic has judged the dish and written his column before the chef's brought it out of the kitchen," Huckabee said.

Warner made his recommendation Thursday after returning from a trip to Iraq, where he met with U.S. and Iraqi military and civilian leaders. He also was informed by a new National Intelligence Estimate that identified some improvements in securing parts of Iraq but projected worsening prospects for governance.

(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 110th; bush; iraq; iraqsurge; johnwarner; warner
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1 posted on 08/25/2007 2:47:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SandRat; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; blam; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Allegra; onyx; ...

fyi


2 posted on 08/25/2007 2:48:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Granddaughters!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who visited the biennial Midwest Republican Leadership Conference, called Warner’s stance disappointing and “premature.””

I agre with Gov. Huckabee. My Brothers and Sisters are ACCOMPLISHING the MISSION.


3 posted on 08/25/2007 2:55:21 PM PDT by JOE43270 (JV43270 God Bless America and ALL WHO HAVE and WILL DEFEND HER.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“Sen. John Warner of Virginia, a former Navy secretary and one of Congress’ most respected military voices.”

Respected by whom?


4 posted on 08/25/2007 2:59:13 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Soon to be former Senator Warner won’t be facing reelection in 2008. How does this divide the party? It’s the Democrats in the Senate that are seriously divided.


5 posted on 08/25/2007 2:59:21 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
No, Senator Warner. But I do think we should have the common courtesy to offer the insurgents a reacharound.
6 posted on 08/25/2007 2:59:33 PM PDT by RichInOC (...R. Lee Ermey, a role model for us all.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Where’s the border fence?


7 posted on 08/25/2007 3:00:48 PM PDT by Old 300
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

There are a number of RINOs who need to pullout of the GOP.


8 posted on 08/25/2007 3:02:54 PM PDT by windsorknot
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There are a number of RINOs who need to pullout of the GOP.

Yes, but it would feel so much better to KICK THEM OUT! :o)

9 posted on 08/25/2007 3:07:20 PM PDT by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gov. Mike Huckabee, who visited the biennial Midwest Republican Leadership Conference, called Warner’s stance disappointing and “premature.””

What a lame response. And I'm supposed to take seriously FReepers' claims that Huckabee is some great conservative?

10 posted on 08/25/2007 3:08:03 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Atheist pro-lifer)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The way the press is reacting; you would think someone died and Warner was now President. Warner is a contradiction in terms; and seems to have forgotten some serious history lessons.

Am sick of these 'bigger than thou' egos; who think they need not support their President; and whom cannot grasp the portents of an American defeat.

11 posted on 08/25/2007 3:08:38 PM PDT by cricket
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Right on. I haven’t respected that RINO in a long time.


12 posted on 08/25/2007 3:08:39 PM PDT by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Nowadays everyone thinks they have presidental insight..


13 posted on 08/25/2007 3:13:41 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Warner’s wrong about pulling out. The guy hasn’t thought out the repercussions of running away. I expect dangerous suggestions like this from D’crap politicians but not Republicans !!!


14 posted on 08/25/2007 3:17:57 PM PDT by Obie Wan
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"It's almost as if the food critic has judged the dish and written his column before the chef's brought it out of the kitchen," Huckabee said.

Huckabee has the down home country intelligence to make a great President. He's precisely right here.

15 posted on 08/25/2007 3:21:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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What about the Dems being divided when Leiberman bucked the party? I guess maybe they aren’t divided after all since they threw him out of the party! That’s how they the tolerant ones deal with those who disagree with them.


16 posted on 08/25/2007 3:24:24 PM PDT by bombthrower
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To: bombthrower

That’s true. I’ve advocated Warner take a trip back home too though.

What you’re probably addressing is the media that fails to mention the Lieberman dynamic while capitalizing on the Warner sutuation. You’re right on target.


17 posted on 08/25/2007 3:28:36 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I heard Warner give some suggestions the other day about maybe 5,000 troops leaving as a wake up call to the Iraqi politicians.

The desperation of the Left Wing Press has blown it into Warner marching on the White House and challenging the President to a duel.

18 posted on 08/25/2007 3:35:30 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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Who cares what John Warner says? The guy is always on the leftist side when a vote counts - media allows him to posture as a conservative as they know he is reliable part of liberal establishment.


19 posted on 08/25/2007 3:42:52 PM PDT by nvcdl
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Warner made his recommendation Thursday after returning from a trip to Iraq, where he met with U.S. and Iraqi military and civilian leaders.

Wonder what he found out that the MSM is not reporting.

20 posted on 08/25/2007 3:53:42 PM PDT by KDD (Ron Paul for President)
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