Sen. Warner's comment may make it easier for some Repugs to speak out??

[rodeodance]

maybe so.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20070824bcusiraqrepublicans_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop
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Some conference-goers said Warner might have a point, but they felt sheepish about saying so.

Clyde Hall , 70, began talking about how his son-in-law was getting ready to be sent to Iraq on his third Army rotation when one of Hall's traveling companions cut him off, saying, "Clyde, Clyde, let's not get personal."

Hall lowered his voice. "I think he made a comment that everybody has to take a look at," he said of Warner. "He said he'd thought it well out. And he's been a former defense chief. You'd have to see the facts he's seen, and we don't always see those. So it's difficult sometimes to pass judgment, because if we haven't seen what he's seen, we don't know what he's doing."

Indiana State Republican Party Chairman Murray Clark said Warner's remarks make it safer for other Republican officeholders and candidates to question aspects of Bush's strategy for a war in which political progress has remained elusive.

"I think it's probably empowering to our candidates who are out there," Clark said. "There's a lot of people at this conference like yours truly that have been and continue to be very supportive of the president. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be able to have discussions about important issues like that that open up doors to solutions other than what the president has proposed."

Clark wouldn't say whether he agreed with Warner.

[dazzlerazzle]

1. Warner's remarks

The biggest fear they now have is losing enough seats in the Senate that the Democrats have enough to overide filibuster. The administration is hurting their chances in the states that the incumbent is weak. Sen Warner may feel that it is time to move with the public, and possibly keep his party from further damage.

[nevergiveup]

2. Sen. Warner , much like Arlen Specter,

is "all hat and no cattle". When it is time to vote in a few weeks he will fall back into the fold.

[TwilightGardener]

3. Yeah, that's what they said about Lugar and Voinovich this summer, too--

what we have to remember is that if a Repub goes against Chimpy in any way on the war, that Repub is as much hated as when a Dem (think Lieberman and Baird) suddenly supports the war. Lugar, Voinovich, and now Warner will be trashed or at the very least discounted as out-of-touch "old-school" thinkers. It would take someone like DeMint or Inhofe (Freeper heroes) to change their minds, same as it would probably take a Feingold changing HIS mind to suddenly convince us that the war is a great idea.

[Captain Hilts]

4. Yes. Let's hope it works. nt