Posted on 11/16/2001 1:10:45 PM PST by america-rules
That's the lesson learned from Poppy41. He won the Gulf War too quickly and too easily. It scared off the Democrat front-runners in the '92 election leaving lesser men like Tsongas and you-know-who. The problem was that the Gulf War became a forgotten war by the time Election Day rolled around. If W spanks the Taliban, takes his win and goes home, nobody outside New York is going to remember in 2004. That's one reason why this war must be taken beyond the Afghan borders. Who'll be next? Someone between Iraq and a hard place?
Mineta was never mayor of Denver. He was a former congressman from San Jose and, along with Robert Reich who resigned, were the only members of Clinton's cabinet to serve scandal-free.
Tell the defeatist, leftist, hate-America press to go pi$$ up a rope!!!
Please, Buchanan and McCain are Populists, about as far from Libertarian as you can get. Don't blame these idiots views on us:)
None of them have ever worn a uniform in the defense of their country; none of them suffered in a Hanoi POW camp; none have ever been in Harm's Way in the defense of the nation!
None of them have ever worn a uniform in the defense of their country; none of them suffered in a Hanoi POW camp; none have ever been in Harm's Way in the defense of the nation!"
Sorry, but I am not a mind numbed robot for someone just because he was a POW. I wish we could all remember him for just that. I once met John McCain when he was a Conservative Republican at a state convention, took a picture with him, and thanked him for his service to this country. That was before he started flipping out. It is too bad that he will be remembered as a liberal political hack.
That record, while deserving of our thanks and recognition, in no way sheds light on whether he holds correct political positions, has integrity, or is even sane. We all know or have met Vietnam vets who have none of those qualities.
His military record is a fairly decent indication of what kind of a person he was at the time, and the experience may be useful to him in his work today, but it's no seal of approval of him as a person.
I don't really judge people based on what they were 30 years ago. I want to know what they are today.
With John McCain, I do not like what I see today.
Absolutely!
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