Is a Private Time Table a Time Table or a McCain Dirty Trick?
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Romney evidently agrees that he said - paraphrased, "There is no question Bush and Maliki must have a series of private timetables they speak about (between themselves) but we do not want them (terrorists in Iraq) to wait in the weeds until we are gone"
McCain has characterized that statement as supporting a timetable during the time frame when McCain very publicly campaigned against any kind of time table and for the Surge and against Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld finally fell under the weight of McCains' continuing criticism.
At the time, many thought he was politically dead because of his support for the very unpopular Surge. How is it, that it seems to have become even more unpopular today because nobody is talking about it other than quiet, reluctant acknowledgment that the Surge, AT MINIMUM has been accompanied by a significant reduction in violence.
McCain and many others say that is proof the Surge has worked as McCain so publicly said it would.
Others say the reduction in violence is due to other reasons.
Romney also had to admit in the Debate that his two hometown newspapers have endorsed McCain. Wonder if he wishes he could talk back the charge that if the New York Times endorses you then you must be liberal. The New York Times endorses a candidate in each party and Hillary and JohnCan Did win that endorsement.
Romney calls McCain a nixonian and McCain could have brought up this comment anytime before the last week before Super Tuesday, arguably the nations first national primary.
Comment by Richard Burke on 6 February 2008:
As a Republican, I will never vote for McCain even if he is nominated as the GOP candidate as I and many others I have talked with feel that he must still think he is under capture and needs to lie and spread dirty tricks to save his skin from the enemy. I want a person as a president that is honest and trust worthy which John McCain is not. Furthermore, all he talks about is being a hero, the Iraq war, a foot-soldier for Reagan, and how he is ready to be commander-in-chief right from the start. In other words, it is all about war and fighting. This is not what the real voters want to hear. Our main concern is the economy about which he stumbles and doesn't seem to understand what it is all about. He was only schooled in war not the economy.
Comment by Anita Bonghit on 6 February 2008:
I too will never vote for Juan McCain. I just can't understand though how he gets so many delegates when so many republicans hate him. Do people really have such short memories that they don't recall how he was dead set on giving amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens?
Juan McAmnesty for pres and watch the country go to hell with huge entitlements for illegals that working Americans (assuming you can get a job that pays since illegals are driving down wages) will pay for.
Comment by Sam Ervin Jret. on 6 February 2008:
I have to agree that the Time table thing seemed a "dirty trick" at worst a convenient yet dishonest word play at best, but if you think Mr. Romney offers honesty in public policy you may want to check his record. If it's the economy (stupid or otherWISE) you are concerned about, the GOP seems to have forgotten its History as at least wanting to be small government. The government has never more been in your business, personal and professional. The only thing the Reagan Revolution brought us was just enough deregulation in just the wrong areas to cause the loss of environmental progress (to that point made), lead back in our children's lives and a banking and loan fiasco that continues to this day. On the other hand the government is in our bedrooms, our computers, our telephones and e-mails and with no regulation of that what so ever.
Comment by Ruth on 6 February 2008:
You can all just talk, but he is (Mcain) the only one who is reall top normall at this election of 2008 I believe that he will be the best to lead the country then the others..what is the problem with illigal immigrant? there are some people who enter this country legall and past do of there visa or other lagall enterance but decided to stay and pay taxes and do good and even having kids who was borne here..
So everyone thinks that all ilegall are came here other then the airport entrence?? you are mistaking people with those who did it against the llaw..
Who do you want to be the one??? Clinton? Mit Romney? or maybe obama? I don't think so they not even have that president look ot talk..
I hope that non of them will run this great country..
Ruth.
Comment by Barbara tardanico on 6 February 2008:
I feel so bad for you and your warped slant on things. Your presence in this country is the result of being born of a US citizen. Just like in every country in the world you have to be a citizen of that country to be able to take up residence and work. Just try to go to England and stay there. Unless you have legal papers that let you stay there then you're gone..end of case. Why is it so hard to understand the law? Have you ever been hit head on by a car driven by an illegal uninsured driver who was under the influence of alcohol? It is just the beginning of a major headache that never goes away. Believe me no president has control of what happens after they look the other way.
Comment by Barbara tardanico on 6 February 2008:
I believe Mitt Romney, from the point of intelligence, business acumen,honesty and integrity has it all over all of the others. Because he is such a gentleman he is not a scrapper like McCain who takes things out of context and puts a nasty slant on it. Judging how the masses make judgment based on whatever the media pushes them to believe and take it on hearsay as gospel is there any wonder why this country is in the state it is in. After the surrender and takeover many will have wished they used their vote more judiciously.
Comment by Dan on 7 February 2008:
Mccain needs to let the public know why he didnt vote on the ec bill, osama and billary did.I thought johnny was the straight talker and was honest, all ive seen is his distortions and nitpicking on insignificant issues. Mitt is a businessman, he knows what to do, having a lib in there will only enrich the welfare recipients. Illegals to date have killed 36,000 americans, car wrecks, murders, drug ddeals, it is time for them to shove off before we have a civil uprising. People are getting tired of the drug crime, why do you think so many states have passed concealed carry? It is coming to a head, folks are getting tired of it.
Comment by Stephanie on 7 February 2008:
I agree with Barbara and Dan. Romney has the aptitude, experience and character to lead this country out of the immigration and financial chaos we're experiencing now. McCain has DELIBERATELY misled the voters with statements taken out of context about Mitt's record in Massachusets. I've researched that record and in each case Romney took the best (and most conservative) route available to him at the time. Pray that people open their eyes and ears to the TRUTH.
Comment by Dan on 7 February 2008:
Well, I would just like to take a quick minute to chime in on all the Mcain bashing. Just so everyone is up to par. The reason John is being called a Non-conservitive, is becuase of his unique ability to work on both sides of the isle. WOW, someone who looks past the polorizing differences and actually gets things done. I always find it interesting that people love to critisize someoneelses ideas, but never come up with any of there own. I may not agree with All of John's Ideas, but at least he comes up potential solotions. Instead of just complaining about the problems. I believe this is why so many of us dispicable moderates are voting for him. Truth, integrity and an honest desire to get the country back on the right path. Good luck John. And thanks for not taking these people to seriously.
Comment by Jordan on 8 February 2008:
It seems that the McCain defender doesn't know how to spell. That's rather telling. If you can't spell you probably can't read the writing on the wall about John. John is not about truth. He gets a free ride with the "Straight talk express". What a load of bull.
Comment by Phyllis Patton on 8 February 2008:
I feel this country has missed the boat that carried Romney. He was truthful. Mccain has inherted some of the Bush qualities. We dont need another Bush Jr at the helm. Now, I would settle for Huckabee. he has integrity and good common sense, and not afraid to stand up to those old white gloved Republicans.
Comment by Linda on 8 February 2008:
I think everyone has completely missed the boat. Wake up, America! The only candidate that is TRULY conservative and his voting record shows it, is Ron Paul. Yet, he doesn't have the money to make a big splash like all the rest and the media has ignored him. Of course, the media is liberal so they are going to make sure nothing gets said about an honest conservative. He's more like the old time candidates (some of them) spoke the truth. We all say we want a conservative but yet nobody is willing to give up their perks, their handouts from the government. Too bad, I think Ron Paul has give up. Our loss.
Comment by Sam Ervin Jret. on 9 February 2008:
Jordan, your logic about the link between spelling and reading is as false as your assumption that I am a defender of McCain in any sense. My point, if you can read the writing on the post, was that McCain's "time table" comment was a dirty trick at best, and that honesty was not something I would expect from either of these candidates. But in order to understand what I read, you do have to drop your defensive posture, open your mind, read, think, comprehend. Then and only then you may agree or disagree.
Comment by Gwyn on 9 February 2008:
I do not believe for one second that John McCain is a conservative. The only true conservative is Alan Keyes.
Comment by Lagomorph on 9 February 2008:
I'm consistently awed by the absolutely shocking stupidity exhibited by Republican suicide voters who are threatening to vote for either Obama or Clinton or my personal favorite, staying home to vote for No Juan at all. Why? Do they honestly feel that both of these candidates are running to the right of John McCain? Are these people stoned, or are they really that stupid?
If all John McCain does right during his administration is continue prosecuting the war on Islamic Fascism diligently and appointing conservative judges like Alito and Roberts, that's a definite step up from either Clinton or Obama. Every single candidate in this party is flawed including Mitt Romney, who - correct me if I'm wrong, which I'm NOT - was labeled a "former liberal governer of Massachusetts" by Robert Novak prior to his well-timed departure from the race this week. My, how quickly they forgive and forget Romney's liberal policies on gay marriage, abortion and "fees" aka "tax increases" and yet John McCain is the one who's a pariah. What a crock!
I used to think the people on the Left were insanely rigid idealogues, but now I get to see the true face of the Republican Right Wing. I'm a Libertarian who registers Republican, and I was around when Reagan was President. He spent like a drunken sailor on defense (thank God) and started the whole idea of amnesty for illegals, yet I'm absolutely intrigued at the invocation of his legacy by so-called "conscientious conservatives" and "values voters" as if he were the absolute end-all be-all of their core values. He was an incredibly personable and eloquent individual, but the Republican Party establishment despised him as much then as they do John McCain (and Mike Huckabee) today. I was there. I remember. D-E-N-I-A-L means Don't Even kNow I Am Lying. It's not a river in Egypt, it's the true face of the Right Wing and it's just as ridiculous as it is ugly.
So all you so-called conscientious, principled Conservatives go ahead and stay home, or vote for Obama or Clinton - either way you'll get a couple more Ruth Bader Ginsbergs on the Supreme Court, and you'll also ensure that Al Qaeda will slaughter every single Iraqi who so much as walked on the same side of the street as an American GI with your irresponsible, hostile, petty little posturing. And then you big bunch of self-righteous self-congratulatory babies can take your so-called conservative consciences and faith-based values straight to Hypocrisy Hell with you when you go.