MCCAIN: Well, of course, he said he wanted a timetable. Before that, we have to understand that we lost the 2006 election and the Democrats thought that they had a mandate. They thought they had a mandate to get us out of Iraq.
And I was prepared to sacrifice whatever was necessary in order to stand up for what I believed in.
Now, in December of 2006, after the election, Governor Romney was won't weigh in. I'm a governor."
At the time, he didn't want to weigh in because he was a governor, I was out there on the front lines with my friends saying, "We not only can't withdraw, but we've got to have additional troops over there in order for us to have a chance to succeed."
Then in April, April was a very interesting year (sic) in 2007. That's when Harry Reid said the war is lost and we've got to get out. And the buzzword was "timetables, timetables."
Governor, the right answer to that question was "no," not what you said, and that was we don't want to have them lay in the weeds until we leave and Maliki and the president should enter into some kind of agreement for, quote, "timetables."
"Timetables" was the buzzword for the...
ROMNEY: Why don't you use the whole quote, Senator?
MCCAIN: ... withdrawal. That...
ROMNEY: Why don't you use the whole quote? Why do you insist on...
MCCAIN: I'm using the whole quote, where you said "I won't"...
ROMNEY: ... not using the actual quote? That's not what I said. MCCAIN: The actual quote is, "We don't want them to lay in the weeds until we leave." That is the actual quote and I'm sure... ROMNEY: What does that mean? MCCAIN: ... fact-checkers -- ROMNEY: What is the meaning? MCCAIN: It means a timetable until we leave.
“Governor, the right answer to that question was “no,” not what you said..” The arrogance of McCain makes me sick. Here he is telling Romney that there was only one answer and because Romney chose to answer in a different way from what McCain wanted to hear, he was wrong. Talk about controlled thinking. Imagine what a president McCain would be, his way or the highway. I also hated that little crooked nasty smile McCain had on his ugly puss whenever Romney was making points against him. The American people are jackasses if they vote McCain for president. They are worse than jackasses if they believe the media that McCain is the only one to beat Hilarity. Where have all the thinking Americans gone? It is a shame that all they can think about is what the government can give them.