McCain Previews General Election Strategy: Dems Were Wrong About Iraq

[babylonsister]

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McCain Previews General Election Strategy: Dems Were Wrong About Iraq
By Greg Sargent - February 18, 2008, 12:32PM

At a press conference today, presumptive GOP nominee John McCain signaled his general election strategy: Dems were wrong about Iraq; Bush's strategy is "succeeding," the surge worked, if we had done things the Dems' way, Al Qaeda would have succeeded in Iraq...

video at link~

Kicking off your campaign with a message that's at odds with solid majority sentiment that the war wasn't worth fighting doesn't strike us as terribly sound, but perhaps McCain is practicing the Rovian technique of turning your opponents' greatest advantage into a weakness.

It's also worth noting that Obama, perhaps more so than Hillary, can argue that if we'd never invaded in the first place, something McCain aggressively championed, there would never have been any Al Qaeda in Iraq in the first place.

[Hepburn]

1. Unbelievable...

...the Dems were wrong on Iraq. :eyes:

Now there's a winning slogan...NOT!

[babylonsister]

2. If that's all he's got, he's in big-g-g trouble! nt

[Hepburn]

5. I watched a bit of him today on the Daddy Bush endorsement..

...and maybe it is just because I dislike him so much, but McCain has the smarmiest voice. I just cannot stand to hear him. Plus...such a flat delivery and a zombie looking wife standing behind him.

BTW: Has anyone ever seen Cindy McCain open her mouth or appear on the campaign trail on her own? I have not noticed this...but I am not sure if it is that she is not able to go out and hit the trail on her own or if I have just turn off in my mind any time something comes on the tube that is about McCain and just have not noticed her doing anything? If she is not around...why not?

[tridim]

3. This will play well to the American backwash

About 2 out of 10 people.

Awesome strategery there McPain.

[BayouBengal07]

4. Let him get elected on it

Let him keep us in Iraq. Watch the security situation spiral downward without a political solution. Let HIM figure out what do with the other provinces outside of Anbar and Baghdad where we don't have a security presence. Let HIM figure out what do with all those Sunni warlords and insurgents we armed, once they're done fighting for us. Let HIM try to establish a national oil law, a viable economy and trading market, and a political accommodation for the Kurds.

If he wants to run on that, he'll reap what he sews.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

6. Looks like he's locked up Utah. The rest are in play.