Obama has completely screwed the pouch with Iraq and Afghanistan, and so people don’t want to think about Iraq and Afghanistan - they just want them to go away.
Putting Petreus on the ticket just screams Iraq and Afghanistan - in my judgment, that will just turn people off, if not overtly, at least subliminally.
>”Putting Petreus on the ticket just screams Iraq and Afghanistan - in my judgment, that will just turn people off, if not overtly, at least subliminally.”<
That was my first response. Besides there’s doubt that he’s really a conservative. As Dr. Sivana points out, many generals tend to be big government types. Authoritarianism in the military may be needed to win wars, but that’s not what we want for the country as a whole.