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It was love at first fight sight.

Phil Byler on January 23, 2008 at 4:45 PM

Schwartzkop, with McCain-like disloyalty, refused to endorse his boss Bush senior against Bill Clinton. His endorsement should be used as a negative indicator.

John McCain also has the endorsements of former Secretaries of State George Schultz, Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Eagleburger and Alexander Haig, former Navy Secretaries John Lehman and William Ball, former national security officials Bud MacFarlane, James Woolsey, Tom Kean, Tom Ridge and Robert Inman, former Cabinet Secretaries (outside State) James Schlesinger, Jack Kemp, Robert Mosbacher and Peter Peterson, Senators Sam Brownback, Richard Burr, Tom Coburn, John Thune, John Warner, John Kyl, Pete Domenici, Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman and Gordon Smith, former Senators Phil Gramm, Alphone D’Amato, Dan Coats, Warren Rudman, Mike DeWine, Peter Fitzgerald and Slade Gordon, as well as congressmen, state attorneys general and business leaders. That is a conservative group of people who have carried public responsibilities.

I have posted several times lengthy rebuttals to such issues as the “Gang of 14″ to show that your reliance is nonsense. But you people are so caught up in your rationales that you cannot see the forest for the trees. You are asking for a Hillary Clinton Presidency. The polls show only John McCain as the Republican who can win in November.

Desert Caution
Once ‘Stormin’ Norman,’ Gen. Schwarzkopf Is Skeptical About U.S. Action in Iraq

By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 28, 2003; Page C01

TAMPA–Norman Schwarzkopf wants to give peace a chance.

The general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War says he hasn’t seen enough evidence to convince him that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now. He thinks U.N. inspections are still the proper course to follow. He’s worried about the cockiness of the U.S. war plan, and even more by the potential human and financial costs of occupying Iraq.

You have got to read the whole thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A52450-2003Jan27&notFound=true

McCain is the only GOP candidate who can beat Clinton, and more crucially Obama, in the general.

That mantra used to be about Rudy. How is that working out?

With the Democratic stranglehold on Congress it is vital that we have a GOP President.

Pax americana on January 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM

A GOP President? Well that rules out McCain.

Sen. John McCain has served our country with honor

They always feel a pressing need to include the word “honor” when talking about McCain’s service. It’s a curious thing.

With someone like Duncan Hunter, they never feel the need to stress the word “honor” when mentioning his service because there was no question about it.

Does anyone really care what he thinks?

Wade on January 23, 2008 at 9:10 AM

Yes. Will it change my vote? No, but I do care what he thinks. I have undying respect for General Schwarzkopf, and I thank him for his service. He deserves at least a minute of my time to hear him out.

Schwarzkopf’s just worried that he’s going to be the guy who has to call that soldier serving in Iraq to tell him his mother’s being deported.

World B. Free on January 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM

Better to be that guy than the guy who has to call a soldier in Iraq and tell him that his mother has been killed by a drunk-driving illegal alien, or one who couldn’t read the road signs because he didn’t speak English; or that his little sister has been raped by an illegal alien criminal who’d been deported four previous times for other crimes; or that his father committed suicide after he lost his business because a company that used illegal alien labor kept underbidding him.

I guess McCain would be happy to make those calls.

Frozen Tex on January 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Look at the picture I linked to. That green shows up just fine on my end.

And my color balance is a-ok. The pic Brian has up front is blue for me.

It’s no big deal. I just want to be in on the gag if there is one. :)

It has to be said that Stormin Norman has a better sense of who is best going to support the military, national security, and American interests overseas than the vast majority of internet bloggers.

McCain is the only GOP candidate who can beat Clinton, and more crucially Obama, in the general. With the Democratic stranglehold on Congress it is vital that we have a GOP President.

Not just the White House, but Congress as well. With the current Dem controlled Congress’s approval ratings in the toilet, that should be easy. (I know….”Famous last words.”)

The congress will be important whoever wins the White House. Right now, the Dems are likely to wind up with 55+ Senate seats. If they were to get to 60, they’d be veto-proof.

Does anyone really care what he thinks?

Wade on January 23, 2008 at 9:10 AM

Yep I do.

davenp35 on January 23, 2008 at 11:13 AM

I’ve read the same thing about him, more than once. and again, I didn’t hear it until well after the war, and it was a bit of a let-down.

chrisro on January 23, 2008 at 10:49 AM

you may need to check the color balance on your monitor; that’s an Army green class-A uniform, there.

Can you be completely unsurprised by something, yet disappointed when it actually happens? If you can, then I am.

Me, too, Bryan. Unfortunately, this says a helluva lot more about Stormin’ Norman than I ever wanted to know. I’d rather not know that his judgment is so poor, and that he’d succumb to identity politics rather than what’s good for the nation.

My initial response when I saw this was: “Ick.”

If you think loosing this election is the key to winning the next one, maybe we should check with Rudy on the tactic of loosing elections as a path to victory.

dedalus on January 23, 2008 at 10:18 AM

I’m not suggesting we lose this one to win another one. I’m suggesting we win this one all around. Not just the White House, but Congress as well. With the current Dem controlled Congress’s approval ratings in the toilet, that should be easy. (I know….”Famous last words.”)

I think it is time for people to quit worrying about who some has-been endorses and use their brain to determine who THEY themselves should support.

Sure, I have the utmost respect and appreciation for the service of Stormin’ Norman S., but that doesn’t mean he has more intelligence or insight as to who should be President.