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For McCain, Surge is a Losing Strategy
Townhall.com ^ | July 23, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 07/23/2008 5:08:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 07/23/2008 5:08:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

so if we win before obama has a chance to demand we surrender, that helps obama

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

man the media is is going into defcon 5 spin control....


2 posted on 07/23/2008 5:10:51 AM PDT by edzo4
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To: Kaslin

Jonah taking the Drudge route hoping for an Obama win to help inflate his sagging career.


3 posted on 07/23/2008 5:12:29 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Did you actually read the article?


4 posted on 07/23/2008 5:13:52 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Kaslin

McCain needs to jump on the energy band wagon. He should appear in every oil state and demand more drilling = more jobs. He could do the same with nuclear power plants. We voters are being hit hard on energy right now. Expose the no drill dims, McCain!


5 posted on 07/23/2008 5:15:02 AM PDT by raisincane (Dims think we're all oblivious to the obvious)
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To: edzo4
McCain doesn't need to explain why he'd be a better commander in chief. Voters already acknowledge his superior judgment on foreign policy by huge margins. He needs to explain why, going forward, we'll need that judgment.

Yes, please explain this to our deliberately dumbed down masses for they have not a clue.
6 posted on 07/23/2008 5:18:07 AM PDT by yobid ("...the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe")
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To: Strategerist
Yes I did read the article and Jonah made the weak comparision of the end of the cold war and to the current WOT.

9/11 is still fresh in the minds of voters and McCain holds a strong lead in who makes a better CIC. The WOT is still a hot war and is not a "cold war" and for Jonah to make a comparision between the two is disingenuous and smacks of despeartion and ill-equipped intellect.

7 posted on 07/23/2008 5:21:34 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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I disagree with the article. The casualties and chaos in Iraq have been an overwhelming weight around the GOP’s neck for the last four years. It’s become common wisdom that Bush and the Republicans shamed and damaged the country by dragging us into an “unnecessary, unwinnable war”. McCain needs to change that narrative and has been very successful, especially in the past few days, of doing so. Already, it has become more accepted that the surge was a great success and that we are capable, if we haven’t already, of winning the war. McCain should keep reiterating how wrong Obama has been about Iraq and needs to make the country feel proud about our efforts there and help the people understand how crucial our victory is.


8 posted on 07/23/2008 5:23:27 AM PDT by Catphish
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To: yobid

You’re right about the dumbed down masses.
Polls show most Americans believe the Republicans control congress. It’s going to be an uphill fight.


9 posted on 07/23/2008 5:23:55 AM PDT by Artemis Webb ( OBAMA/HUCKABEE '08)
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To: DallasBiff

Agree with you 100%. Foreign policy is McCains strong suit and the WoT is one of the most pressing issues. It’s only reasonable he centres on it.


10 posted on 07/23/2008 5:25:02 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: Kaslin

Actually Goldberg is right. Wake up McCain, start asking Barry what he will do after the troops leave on his watch. What will happen if there is a bloodbath, if Iran takes over. What will Barry do? Have tea and talk?

McCain always gets stuck trying to prove he WAS right, rather than pressing on.


11 posted on 07/23/2008 5:25:49 AM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: raisincane
McCain needs to jump on the energy band wagon.

McCain has. Have you seen this ad that is running in PA and OH.

McCain Pump ad

12 posted on 07/23/2008 5:26:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: Catphish

I think Rush made a great point yesterday (maybe he wasn’t the first one to say it, but he’s the first I heard).

Obama’s over there feigning all kinds of concern for the Iraqi people - they need jobs, infrastructure, education, health care, etc. Yet Obama and Democrats did not care a whit about the Iraqi people before the invasion and if not for the invasion, Iraqis would still be living under a murderous dictatorship.

Rush asked, “Obamessiah, where was your concern for the Iraqi people prior to 2003?”


13 posted on 07/23/2008 5:29:37 AM PDT by randita
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To: Kaslin
he ran on getting us out with honor

I remember the 'honorable' way the Huey's flew off the embassy roof with people desperately trying to get on.

14 posted on 07/23/2008 5:32:53 AM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
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To: edzo4

There is truth to what he says because like Bush SR he is seen as a single issue candidate, although I did like his commercial blaming Obama for gas prices. bush SR lost because the public felt we were safe (which we werent) and wanted to move on to domestic spending and issues. Obama is like 1992 Clinton, and the media is doing the same.

As much as I dislike McCain, I like this weeks attacks on Obama. I really enjoyed them and was surprised.


15 posted on 07/23/2008 5:46:18 AM PDT by sickoflibs (We cant win elections (with illegal's votes) by out-welfaring Democrats)
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Obama is like 1992 Clinton

maybe so, but Clinton only got 43% of the vote that year and Bob Barr or Ron Paul are not going to get 19% of the vote like Ross Perot did...

16 posted on 07/23/2008 5:53:17 AM PDT by edzo4
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To: Kaslin
From my very limited conversations with my friends and neighbors:

A platform that highlights our success in Iraq instead of addressing the above is doomed.

17 posted on 07/23/2008 5:54:48 AM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (DR #1692)
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To: DallasBiff

9/11 has been pushed to the back of the American consciousness, no more immediate than the battleship Maine.
Voters are anyone who will get on the bus for $20 and punch one hole.


18 posted on 07/23/2008 6:16:55 AM PDT by steve8714 (Curtis Strange ruined a man better than himself.)
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To: edzo4

That was the irony of Clinton attacking Obama, he was attacking him 1992 self .

I think the best thing would be if Obama wins by the slimmest amount possible, getting beat up badly in the process(as many people realize he is a disaster) , then tries to pass some huge sweeping liberal ideas. He already promised open homosexual behaviour in the military, all while making the female western press reporters in Jorden dress like Muslims to not offend.

You see the press built Clinton up 92, then tore him down. Now who walks on liberal water 2008 ???


19 posted on 07/23/2008 6:19:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs (We cant win elections (with illegal's votes) by out-welfaring Democrats)
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To: Kaslin

Stinky pile of bovine poop!

LLS


20 posted on 07/23/2008 6:21:27 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (REAGANISM... not communism!!!)
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