GOP candidates unite in support of Iraq war

Source: Omaha World Herald

Published Sunday | April 15, 2007
GOP candidates unite in support of Iraq war
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER


DES MOINES - The war in Iraq may divide the country, but it did not divide the large field of Republican presidential candidates who wooed Iowa caucus-goers Saturday with tough talk on the war.

Nine candidates, speaking at a GOP event appropriately called the "unity dinner," made it clear in stark and dire language that they would oppose any effort by Congress to withdraw troops from Iraq.


Presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks during the Republican party of Iowa's Abraham Lincoln Unity Dinner.


They also made it clear that their pro-war stance separates them from the Democratic field.

All of the GOP candidates framed the debate in terms of national security.

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I should go find the article.. I just read it this morning LOL:rofl:

....They all act and talk like zombies!

Well, except for their brains...........

unless the whole country has been brainwashed, I see no way any pro-war candidate would win.

They're throwing this one. They'll support the least threatening Democratic candidate on the sly, and hope for a come-back in 2012. When everything they fucked up still isn't fixed yet, they'll try to blame the Democratic President. If it works, they're golden. If not, we may be seeing the longest string of Democratic control of the White House since Roosevelt and Truman.

for the worst... worse than it is now!

The Rovian politicians in the Republic Party are going to want to make sure that things are impossible to fix.

The Dems will get the blame for:

Losing the war..... increasing taxes.... homeless vets.... falling economy.... rising oil prices..... erosion of American manufacturing... etc

We know it's not so, but the Republic noise machine and Fux Snooze will play that tune over and over.

Witness the "US lost Vietnam because the Dems De-funded our troops" meme. Funds weren't cut off until the combat troops had left, but you'd never know it to hear the Freepoids.

It's an easy fix. Just start blaming the repugs NOW for all the problems they caused. Use language that defines the problems as repug proglems. Blame them starting NOW, don't wait until the election. Frame the debate so that you put the repugs on the defensive and don't let them get ahead of the curve. Make them try to defend all the corruption they've caused.

The only problem with this is that it requires the Dems to take an aggressive stand, which they seem physiologically unable to do. If they had done that before the last election we would likely have unstoppable majorities in both houses of congress.

Personally, I'd love to see a new generation of aggressive candidates take over congress. That's what will be needed to fix our shattered nation.

everything which is now happening on the Dem's and hope for a big sweep bag into power, wishful thinking. They really have no other strategy. Put yourself in their place and you can see they have no real options.

You're insuring none of you has a chance in hell of getting elected.

That's alright they can go down with USS Bushco.

:kick: MKJ

in recent times! What a gift.

The GOP is not a political party but a criminal enterprise being run by psychopaths.

their support of this disaster, or start talking about withdrawal, our candidates need to be prepared to hit them HARD with flip-flop charges. It's one thing to support the war in 2003, quite another to support it in 2007. They are doooomed.

One of those safe markets in Baghdad

considering what a bunch of idiotic warmongers they are. Many DUers think the 2008 election is going to be all about the war, but I think voters will base their vote on many things besides that.

have destroyed the nation. Emphasize corruption, election tampering, war profiteering, and start doing it now, ahead of the game so the repugs start on the defensive.

Election 2008: Clinton Edges Out McCain

Hillary Clinton (D) 47% John McCain (R) 46%

April 6, 2007

New York Senator Hillary Clinton (D) has a one-point edge over Arizona Senator John McCain (R) in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of the race. In April, it’s Clinton 47% McCain 46%.

In March, McCain led Clinton 48% to 41%, but the candidates were just one point apart in February. In earlier polling, McCain enjoyed moderate leads over Clinton of four points or so.

An earlier release showed that Clinton also moved within one point of the Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Political%20Tracking/Presidential%20Match-Ups/April%202007/McCainvs.Clinton20070405.htm

regardless of how badly things continue to go in Iraq and how wrong people like McCain are shown to be the electorate will still be likely to fall for tough guy rhetoric in Nov 2008.

Also, the vote for president is the least "rational" of all votes. It's based more on "feel" and "gut" and image than it is the particular issue positions of each candidate. Reagan won Massachusetts twice and not because the people here agreed with him on the issues.

If I had to bet my house who the next president will be I'd put my money on McCain.

continue.

Then in the general election the winner will be a hawk in dove's clothing. Too bad they won't be able to erase everything they shall have said between now and then.

I just had a chilling thought. A pro-war presidential candidate, and pro-war Publicans in general, would get a bounce in the polls if there were another major attack on US soil. The same might be true if we attacked Iran and/or suffered a major military loss such as the sinking of one or more of our major carriers.

Contrary to other asessments in this thread, I think Publicans intend to do whatever they can to retain the presidency in 2008. While it is true the next president will have a mess to clean up, Junior is a very easy act to follow.

while in Iraq, he says, "We did not go shopping" because of security issues. Ouch!

Keep on defying the will of the American people and we'll see how far you get.

Very difficult to believe that with all their tactical savvy, they've chosen to be so stupid.

I always hate to see a mass-suicide.

Let's buck 60% of the nation (at least)!

Glad to see them standing together on this. Makes our job that much easier.

The polls are overwhelmingly against them. What or whom do they serve?

and the republic party candidates "made it clear that their pro-war stance separates them from the Democratic field".

So there ya go, American majority, plain & simple, a clear and easy choice.

These clowns will be tripping all over themselves come next year trying to disassociate themselves from the clusterfuck known as Iraq.

Unfortunately for them, we'll be on hand to hang them with their own quotes made this year.

Hagel, if he runs, would be nearly immune from this criticism, since he's not only been against the war for a while (but oddly voted for it), but is now hinting that Bush could be impeached, which might look pretty appetizing to the Republicans in the near future.

is the so called "War in Iraq" which is an unforgivable, continuing, blatant international WAR CRIME! Any effort to continue, prolong, finance or escalate this tragic debacle is also a WAR CRIME!

That is all you need to know but for some reason we do not hear, or read, this basic truth anywhere near often enough. Calling the "War in Iraq" "illegal" only skims the tragic reality of the crimes being committed in OUR NAMES!

These groveling traitors/office seekers must know that we have irretrievably lost this "War in Iraq" already in absolutely every way that it could possibly be lost. We have lost economically, politically, morally, militarily and we have also lost the respect of every other country besides the "Coalition of the Billing". Even the citizens of those few "allies" that are still sharing the Iraqi Kool-Aid with Shrub and these Repukes probably loath us and the position we have backed them into.

WAR CRIMES!

WAR CRIMES!

WAR CRIMES!

Call it like it is, don't pussyfoot around the sad, stark reality, the Iraqis sure can't!

Discussing the situation that our troops there are caught up in is beyond me now, it is so sad... Every troop ever lost in this WAR CRIME is a complete waste of a treasured child, parent, friend and a fellow American. Every Iraqi lost, citizen, soldier or "terrorist", is also a victim. A victim, many hundreds of thousands, just"collateral damage", of our tragic, criminal hubris.

Any American believing that we had any right to invade another sovereign nation under any other situation but truly dire imminent circumstance, is surely complicit and obviously ignorant of the difference between right and wrong.

These candidates are an embarrassment, unspeakably ugly blemishes on the body politic, every single last one of them.

This will work severely against the GOP's agenda. Expect to see total reversals by these demagogues by August/September.