The implied critique of Bush frustrates some GOP strategists. Vin Weber, a former House member, says disunity among Republicans is "enormously dangerous" because it threatens the party's traditional advantage as the one voters trust most on national security. "To risk giving that up by splitting with the president over a central national security issue is really betting the family jewels," he says.
Someone please tell Harry Reid to kick those "family jewels" as long and as hard as he can. Because as soon as people start realizing that the "strong" alleged national-security "credentials" of the republicans are just a front for keeping their contractor buddies up and running, some of the bloom will fade forever from that rose.
Ahhh, I love the smell of republican desperation on Monday mornings...
posted by Jo Fish on 11.21.05 at 01:32 PM
Comments:
It's a little late for that Mr. Vin Weber. The Republican congressman who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has turned against the war.
The Republican party of today would be an insult to someone like President Eisenhower. BushCo has become the posterboy for what is wrong with a military-industrial complex. And the price is being paid by patriotic young Americans.
They'd rather win elections than try to fix the mess? They can't admit ANY mistakes? Now how does that tranlate into being better on National Security? Being a hawk patriot does not mean that you're better for the country... ask the Germans about the Nazis. They were good patriots, too!!!!
You would think that 9/11 proved how much Repubs suck at National Security, wouldn't you?
and peeps is right. Mr. Freedom Fries changed his mind about 6 months ago.
posted by: merlallen on 11.22.05 at 10:48 AM [permalink]
I wouldn't trust a conservative to walk my dog much less be in charge of our national security. That the MSM portrays them as being king of the hill on security issues is like a modern urban myth. Remember this:
---Counterterrorism was nowhere to be seen on Ashcroft's list of top priorities for the Justice Department. Ashcroft's May 2001 "budget goals memo" outlined the Attorney General's top seven priorities. Counterterrorism did not appear anywhere on the list. After 9/11, Ashcroft released a revised strategic goals memo in November 2001 that inserted a new priority at the top of the list – "Protect America Against the Threat of Terrorism." --
or this
After September 11, both President Bush and his top national security adviser denied having any prior knowledge that Al Qaeda was planning an attack involving airplanes.
1999 –EXPLICIT WARNING THAT AL QAEDA HAD PLANS TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO BUILDINGS: A 1999 report prepared by the Library of Congress for the National Intelligence Council "warned that Osama bin Laden's terrorists could hijack an airliner and fly it into government buildings like the Pentagon." The report specifically said, "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives…into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or the White House."
posted by: no kool-aid for me on 11.22.05 at 11:14 AM [permalink]
