of benchmarks for withdrawal from Iraq, before he was against them.It’s amazing how this guy is going to deceive his way to the Republican nomination…….

I think Mitt is not playing like he means it. He only gets so many chances and he has really failed to capitalize on all the material that exists in re McClinton

America1st on January 31, 2008 at 2:41 AM

Read this

In the business world, Mitt Romney is as successful as anyone can be. No one attains his level of achievement without enormous talents and an oversized ego. Yet, compared to John McCain, Romney is modest and self-effacing. As a businessman among politicians, he is a boy among men.

If by some sick twisted sense of God’s humor, McAmnesty gets elected, he’ll put forward the same crappy initiatives any Dem would, he’ll be just as soft on the borders, just as forgiving of criminal aliens, just as cushy on terrorists and our taxes will rise just as fast.

The only difference is the GOP congressman and Senators would almost HAVE to back him for a little while, thus making the destruction of America that much more bitter. At least with a Dem in office we’d see a little backbone and fight while the ship sinks. And we’d have one person clearly responsible when it comes down to placing blame. Who knows we may have the next Jimmuh being sired here.

You really think the media will force him too? Really?
Mark V. on January 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM

Yes they will. The day after he gets the nomination when it will be too late for GOP primary voters to pick the better choice in Mitt Romney.

How will Mr. Straight Talk spin his way out of this one?

You really think the media will force him too? Really?

I think Mitt is not playing like he means it. He only gets so many chances and he has really failed to capitalize on all the material that exists in re McClinton

Hope I have a reason to hang onto it after Feb. 5th.

Come on Mitt!

Every time I take a second look at McCain I want to vomit.

msipes on January 31, 2008 at 1:11 AM

SECOND LOOK AT PEPTO!

(Sorry, hadn’t done one of those for a while.)

I’m not voting for that schmuck.

Either way, it works. ;)

Bryan on January 31, 2008 at 12:20 AM

Agreed. The people who are voting for him because they think he’s the most electable will be in for a rude awakening in the general.

I was considering studying Political sceince in college and did so for a year. When I told my mother I wanted to get into politics she said to me “Why do you want to be a criminal ?”

I was taken aback by what she said till I realized she wasnt calling me a criminal but rather she veiwed politicians as being crooked.

The real moral of that story is doesnt matter how noble and righeous you are when you go into politics a large segment of people already consider you crooked simply because too many politicians have spoken with forked tongues. I guess its wrong of me to want absolutes when no one is capible of giving them.

I understand misgivings with him. Truly I do. We don’t have a perfect candidate. I just don’t think McCain’s treatment of him on the timetable/benchmark issue was fair at all. It showed a side of McCain that won’t help him if he’s the nominee.

Bryan on January 31, 2008 at 12:20 AM

Yeah I can see that being true. McCain does have problems with dealing with conservatives. He takes those as badges of honor when its simply just political rhetoric. Honor is about standing up for things greater than yourself rather than self serving things. McCain does confuse what is and isnt important at times. But unilke the Clintons he doesnt do it on purpose as a matter of manipulation. I guess it comes with being a politician.

Personally Id love to ask McCain and Mitt questions. Or even let Michelle do it. Would be fun to watch so if you and Michelle go to Cpac take a camera !

William Amos on January 31, 2008 at 12:16 AM

I understand misgivings with him. Truly I do. We don’t have a perfect candidate. I just don’t think McCain’s treatment of him on the timetable/benchmark issue was fair at all. It showed a side of McCain that won’t help him if he’s the nominee.

When you get engaged, things get messy. Words start slipping around, and a certain kind of trimmer gets very skilled prying one word out of one context and banging it against another pried from a different context. It’s one of the lamest and most infuriating of all political exercises. The only good thing is that most of the time, it doesn’t matter. The losers get to think they were robbed, like fans who think the refs fixed the game.

Sure, McCain “started it” – and you can win the argument that way if you want to sort it out like six-year-olds. He’s nowhere near as adept verbally as Romney. (I could imagine Bill Clinton and Romney debating about absolutely nothing for hours on end.) It’s sad, it’s a weakness, it sometimes makes McCain look bad, and, like a lot of people of his type, he overcompensates and looks worse, and it may hurt him against the Dems.

Politically, his point remains uncontradicted, because it’s 100% accurate. It wasn’t even the wrong strategy for Mitt: He never had a chance competing with McCain for credibility as a war president (or even as a conservative). Them’s the breaks.

I think my uneasiness is due to Mitt’s more policy wonk talk that I am misreading. Again he said he wanted to “Double Gitmo” which I also took as “We want to arrest more Al Qaeda’ Romney’s plan can work its just a smaller scale of fighting. BTW has Romney said he wants Osama dead or alive ?

Its real easy to read more than one message in romney speak.

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said: “I called for that . . . several weeks ago. I’m glad that John McCain agrees with me.”

Romney’s team ought to air that quote over and over and over and over. And finish the commercial with a picture of Ted and Obama holding hands.

CK MacLeod on January 31, 2008 at 12:06 AM

He said he would veto any bill that called for a timetable to withdraw. That’s not prevaricating. That’s a clear, straight answer.

How will Mr. Straight Talk spin his way out of this one?

Hint: Straight Talk won’t be involved. But you knew that.

Making a big issue of what a “Straight Talker” you are is just a giveaway that you’re a big fat liar, John. Just like the dirtiest, sleaziest, most shameless used car salesman in my hometown billed himself as “Honest P—”.

Most of COIN is about mundane meetings over school lunches while some local guy in the corner tells your intel specialists where the bad guys are holed up. It’s about training up local cops and troops to be clean and help enforce the law without sectarian partiality. I saw that sort of thing with my own eyes a year ago. It’s the strategy that’s turning Iraq around, and Romney’s co-opting it. I don’t see the problem with that.

Bryan on January 30, 2008 at 11:40 PM

and I agree about it in Iraq. I also said that Iraq is not the whole WOT and there are other fronts.

But again I do question the economic aspect of Romney’s plan. Why do we need to help “

threatened Islamic states have public schools, micro-credit and banking, the rule of law, human rights, basic health care, and competitive economic policies”