Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., backs away from McCave gangplank, boards anti-escalation train

He's a Republic up for election in '08.

Backtracking like his nice hair is ON FIRE, along with his pants.



http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2007/01/24/news/news15012407.txt

Smith supports resolution to ban surge

PORTLAND - Building on his earlier calls for a change of course in the Iraq war, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., has thrown his weight behind a nonbinding resolution that rejects President Bush's proposal to increase U.S. troop presence in Iraq.

Smith's decision to sign on as a co-sponsor of the resolution offered by Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is just the latest sign that the once-unified GOP front on the war is splintering as polls show rising public disenchantment with the conflict.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Smith said he felt the war had “devolved far beyond what we authorized,” placing U.S. troops at risk amid a sectarian war rooted in political and religious conflicts.

“Who is the proper successor to Mohammed is not our fight,” Smith said.

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His newly minted anti-war persona will not work. He's going down down down in 2008. Please stop helping him sell his 'moderate' image he loves so much.

I am as critical of this hypocrite as any Oregonian could possibly be.

Read. Please.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Steve_DeShazer/16

Then come back and tell me how I am promoting his "moderate" record. :eyes:

I thought you were 'praising' him for backtracking. Sorry. Been a long day. Although I have decided to turn my attention to getting this bozo OUT OUT OUT.

Many people praise Gordo's post-November conversion, I'm not one of them because I know better.

No offense taken. Just making sure.

But you already knew that.

Gordon Smith is a magna cum laude graduate of the Arlen Specter School of Political Grandstanding. He really likes getting all those "moderate" headlines and encomiums when he says something startling for a Republican, like being against the escalation in Iraq or allowing as how gay people might actually deserve some consideration as human beings. But when the bills come up for a vote, there's no more down the line Republican than old Gordon.

His schtick has worn quite thin, and it may just be that Oregonians will turn him out of office in 2008. I fervently hope so. A strong Democratic candidate could just take this seat.