Don’t take this as an attack, but I think you’re dreaming when you suggest McCain is going to do the right thing by the military.
Look, if you just look at McCain over the years, it’s impossible to come away not realizing he has been a miserable failure as a conservative. If the guy isn’t running for the top spot in the land, I can live with it. If he is, I can’t.
I can’t find more than one or two instances of John actually standing on the right side of an issue. I know his voting record is supposed to be stellar, but the real world stuff I’ve seen doesn’t reflect it one bit.
So what I am left with is the idea that this guy has much more often than not ruled from the left side of the isle. Why then do you and others think he’s going to all of a sudden be a conservative when it comes to the military? Seriously!
We haven’t seen his true colors there. He isn’t in a position of leadership with the military today, yet what we can see isn’t all that convincing.
He wants to close Guantanamo. He doesn’t support water boarding. He wants those terrorists to get a trial, and I think he means a civil trial. And yet folks tout him as a man who is going to be the consumate conservative leader of our military.
Well, if he does turn out to be one, it will be a 180 degree departure from his propensity to rule as a democrat.
I don’t believe he can do it, and once it’s too late you’re going to be sorry you every put this guy into the position of CIC. If he wants to do something negative, the RNC, the Republicans in Congress and a great many people on this forum will find a way to explain away the danger and back him.
Heaven help us if this man gets anywhere near 1600 Pennsylvania avenue. He will have no oppostion.
Opposition is the operative word for the next four years. If we don’t have it, we have nothing too sacred to be destroyed.
Just judging by his voting record on the Senate Armed Services Committee, he's the a stalwart and consistent support of all things military...Look, former Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia was a Democrat so was for Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson. But both were pro-military types...and that comes first with me because nothing will ever trump the protection of this nation, IMO.
He wants to close Guantanamo.
What's wrong with moving the prisoners there here? And, what's the use of keeping it as Raoul is on his last legs and Fidel is just about ready to croak (if not dead already)? Though, I will grant you that Cuba makes fine argument for a 100 year Iraqi stay because we've been in Cuba exactly that long.
He doesn’t support water boarding.
Sleep deprivation works just as well.
He wants those terrorists to get a trial...
The Israeli government gave Adolph Eikman a trial...he still lost.
And yet folks tout him as a man who is going to be the consumate conservative leader of our military.
Well, at least he gets points on backing the right people in the military to get the job done: (liek Petraus). "Mission Accomplished" Bush let 5-time draft deferred Dick Cheney and no-combat, extremely brief time-as-a-Navy-flight instructor Rumsfeld run the war. And, look what happened.
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