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Going for Broke

3.10.08 @ 12:01AM

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This appears to be the developed Democrat strategy for warfare. George Bush has embraced it fully. We came with hugely insufficient troops. It is a measure of how much we are not a superpower that we have been unable to field enough troops to bring victory in Iraq.

Our military was decimated by Bush the First and reduced to impotence by Field Marshall Clinton. Ronald Reagan left America the strongest military in the world, we have allowed it to wither nearly unto death.

I do not believe we can win in Iraq without more troops and much more violence done by us.
-- Jay Molyneaux
Denver, North Carolina

ROUSH'S ARMY
Re: Michael Roush's letter in Reader Mail's Mood Swingin':

When readers such as Mike Roush praise Sen. McCain, the Republican Party needs to pause and examine the damage it has inflicted upon itself. "Independents" such as Mr. Roush, who openly distain the conservative base, nonetheless have given the RNC and McCain a false sense of hope. Unfortunately, we've been down this road before, and the support coming from Mr. Roush and his ilk, along with McCain's erstwhile friends in the MSM, will dissipate in November like the morning dew on a hot August day.

I've never quite understood the fascination "Independents" have with McCain. Surely, McCain's investigation of the Boeing Tanker deal (Roush's example, not mine) is not the substantive philosophical foundation for this ethereal alliance. Rather, as oft told by Mr. Roush, it's McCain's apostasy with conservatism and conservatives that excites the likes of Mr. Roush. Hence, Roush's snide comments about Limbaugh and leaders of the religious right. That, and McCain's quirky (and hypocritical) forays against the Washington establishment, of which he is a charter member.

So, when Mr. Roush suggests that conservatives need to "walk the talk," I take that to mean that conservatives just need to shut up and go away. Sec. Rumsfeld famously intoned that you go to war with the army that you have, not the army that you wish you had. If McCain intends to go to war with only Roush's army, and leaves his conservative vanguard behind, McCain will find Sec. Rumsfeld's comments rather prescient. And given McCain's unseemly antipathy towards Sec. Rumsfeld, the last laugh might well be Rumsfeld's.
-- A. DiPentima

CHOICE CHOICES
Re: Quin Hillyer's The Ticket for McCain:

If we really want to win, and that is not likely unless the Democrats keep killing each other; McCain, who real conservatives will have to hold our noses and collective breath, along with a strong dose of sublingual nitroglycerin, before we can jerk his lever, will need someone who appeals to the North and Jewish vote. Enter Joe Lieberman. He is perhaps the most solid "Democrat" in the Congress now that Zell is gone.

He is not my favorite choice, but he can help deliver the victory. Without a lot of Democrat dissatisfaction with their nominee we are doomed due to the ineptness of the last four years.
-- Jim Garlington

It's Haley Barbour for me.
-- Peter Everts
Battle Lake, Minnesota

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