With shoe on other foot, a Democrat cries foul

Washington Examiner ^ | January 4, 2010 | Chris Stirewalt

[ricks_place]

When Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill was trying to unseat incumbent Jim Talent in 2006, she frequently bashed President George W. Bush for being incompetent on terrorism. As she told NBC's Tim Russert, "This is not an administration that's ready to protect us."

McCaskill argued throughout her campaign that Bush had made the nation more vulnerable to terrorism by invading Iraq, and she harped on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina as proof that Bush had left the nation susceptible to attack.

McCaskill, who used a wounded Iraq veteran and a woman with Parkinson's disease in her ads attacking Talent for budget votes and stem cell policy, also attacked Bush for domestic wiretapping.

And she favored withdrawing all troops from Iraq by 2008 because the Bush troop surge was "a wild failure" that had bred a "culture of dependency" in Iraq. "We are not breeding a democracy," she warned.

But that was a long time ago, politically speaking -- before McCaskill became one of the first senators to endorse Barack Obama, before she voted to extend the same domestic wiretapping she once deplored, before she joined her fellow Democrats in congratulating the Iraqis on their new framework for national elections, before Obama committed 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and before he became responsible for keeping Americans safe from terrorism.

Now Obama is under attack for the way his administration handled the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound jetliner, and McCaskill and other Democrats are crying foul.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Why is it our side wont fight this crap?.It shows weakness.

[srmorton]

I remember this race very well. It was a razor-thin victory, even though this despicable woman had thrown everything possible at Jim Talent who was too much of a gentleman to throw it back in her face. She played the embryonic research card, implying that Jim Talent WANTED Michael J. Fox to suffer from Parkinson's Disease, just because Talent was pro-life and not in favor of federal funds being used for embryonic stem cell research.

Rush even got into the act because of the outrageous commercial Michael J. Fox made in support of McCaskill. Fox later admitted that he deliberately did not take his meds before filming the commercial so the Parkinson symptoms would be more pronounced. It was also one of those elections in which the polls in St. Louis were kept open later than they should have been to increase the Democrat totals. Jim Talent chose not to challenge the outcome of the election.

[Graybeard58]

I stole mine (Tag Line) from a fellow member, fortunately I had room to give him credit.

[y6162]

Claire = Miss Piggy

She is a viscous partisan. It’s good that she gets a dose of her own medicine.

I think she’s beatable in MO.

[Jim Noble]

Iraq.

[Jim Noble]

Iraq.

[Jim Noble]

Iraq.

[Jim Noble]

Iraq.

[Jim Noble]

Iraq.

[painter]

He ran a piss poor campain.

[srmorton]

I was responding to a poster last night who asked if Jim Talent ran a poor campaign, but my internet started acing up and I did not get it to actually post until this morning. I know the original article mentioned Iraq, but I do not see how it relates to the post I was responding to.