John McCain also knows his stuff on foreign policy matters. Did you all see his comments about Putin and Putin’s wrongly getting the time “Man of the Year” award instead of General Petraeus?

Knowledge of military matters and foreign policy will always be critical to have in the President.

It’s not taking as long as I thought.

Dusty on December 19, 2007 at 2:04 PM

The key question is “What do his supporters who backed his surge do when they sense the inevitable?” I gotta think Fred should be the beneficiary, even if he isn’t a regular church goer.

“That’s an 11-point drop for Huck in less than a week.”

“A month is a very long time, in campaigning terms, to stay atop the Hill. From my perspective, Huck isn’t standing atop because he rolled the others off, he crawled up the other side while McCain, Romney and Giuliani were in the midst of trying to throw each other down the other side.

It won’t be long that those three, and Fred, rush the top and I’ll predict that, if not by Iowa then shortly thereafter, Huck’s gonna be a bloody dripping lump at the bottom of the hill and whining, to boot, about how he got there.

Dusty on December 2, 2007 at 4:42 PM”

It’s not taking as long as I thought.

A very significant portion of the WOT is having secure borders, in fact, his position invites attacks on the homeland. He fails the WOT test.

This is a good point, which is why I’d think the right would need to extract some promises from him on enforcement and walling off the border first, before he talks about his amnesty-light, etc.

That’s an 11-point drop for Huck in less than a week.

Who said HotAir was not a nationally influential blog? I would like to believe that we are — finally! — witnessing the inevitability of the HotAir franchise, and their drumbeat of negative, but accurate, reporting on the developing Christian Theocracy that is the Huckster campaign.

But he would prosecute this war like few chief executives, and probably convince at least a few on the left to stop whining about it so much. That’s a relevant upside, especially because he’s probably got the most cross-over appeal and could trounce Hillary, and maybe Obama.

BillINDC on December 19, 2007 at 1:15 PM

A very significant portion of the WOT is having secure borders, in fact, his position invites attacks on the homeland. He fails the WOT test.

A consolation for Mitt — he’s back within one of Huckabee in Iowa. That’s an 11-point drop for Huck in less than a week.

Thank God. Well, not God, but you know what I mean.

McCain was right on Iraq, but one of these days the war in Iraq will be over.

The war on radical Islam, not to mention dealing with the powers (Russia, China) triangulating against the US, will be going on for at least a generation, and he is not a bad guy to have in the national security driver’s seat. Especially since that is the most important role of a President, along with appointment of Supreme Court judges, and spending, which McCain would also be good on.

I’m not really an immigration hardliner, but I understand conservative frustration with it and him. I also personally don’t like McCain’s nanny-state impulses (congressional hearings on ML Baseball?!)

But he would prosecute this war like few chief executives, and probably convince at least a few on the left to stop whining about it so much. That’s a relevant upside, especially because he’s probably got the most cross-over appeal and could trounce Hillary, and maybe Obama.

I still won’t vote for him in the primary.

And we will be left with all the other issues that McCain has deserted the conservatives on.

Favorable opinions of Huckabee have dropped from 81% to 67% over the past week and the Huckabee tide has receded a bit.

You have to wonder if it’s a case of people starting to rethink their earlier support once they hear about his record.

But I will never get the image of him cavorting with Ted Kennedy on the Immigration Bill and trying to railroad Amnesty for Illegals down our throats in the dead of night without even wanting a DEBATE on the Senate floor.

He was disgraceful on that issue, and by joining inthe chorus of leftists calling us xenophobes he was INSULTING to the Republican base which wants our laws enforced.

Im sorry, but all the touchy-feely ads in the world will never wash away the bitter taste of that shameless performance.