Boehner heads straight for the "you're either with us or against us" page of the Karl Rove Playbook

[Amerigo Vespucci]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republicans have seized on a liberal advocacy group's print ad attacking Gen. David Petraeus and have called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to denounce it. In the ad, running in Monday's edition of The New York Times, bold letters under a picture of Petraeus spell out "General Petraeus or General Betray us?"

MoveOn.org Political Action, which paid for the ad, accuses Petraeus of "cooking the books for the White House" on progress being made in Iraq and calls him "a military man constantly at war with the facts."

House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said, "Democratic leaders must make a choice today: Either embrace the character assassination tactics Moveon.org has leveled against the four-star general leading our troops in the fight against al Qaeda, or denounce it as disgraceful."

"Gen. Petraeus and the other commanders in the U.S. Armed Services have dedicated their lives to defending the very freedom that enables MoveOn.org the right to free speech. I support that right, but I find the way they have chosen to exercise it today to be disrespectful and downright reprehensible," Boehner said in a statement.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/10/petraeus.moveon/index.html?iref=topnews

[Purveyor]

1. I watched Pat Buchanan on MSNBC tonight and he was quite 'giddy' over this major Bush victory

over the Democrats.

He proclaimed they (Democrats) have no other option than to give Bush what he wants for Iraq and Iran.

I'm ill over the policies and enablers of this 'criminal' gov't that our peoples have elected.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Pat dislikes the Bushies and the war--and yet, he hates the Dems far more, and it shows.

[jmp]

3. I say embrace it ...

Call Petraeus a political shill (I'd like to call him worse) ... and cut off the funding.

If we don't end this war now, it could drag on for many more years. There is no guarantee of a Democratic victory in '08, and there will always be "signs of progress". Any bill funding this mess even partially or for "just a few months" should never be allowed to reach the floor.

We need to kill this neo-con monster before it kills us.

[TankLV]

4. Bonner - I'M AGAINST YOU!!!

and all TRAITOROUS LYING REPUKES!

Are you clear now?

[stimbox]

5. Did Boner cry when he said that?