Right Wing Lunatic

For all the times I call out someone when they are wrong, occasionally I get to hear from them and they offer a rebuttal.  I doubt I'll be hearing from Huffington Post blogger Rick Jacobs on his idiotic assumptions:

As the Petraeus/Crocker show starts tomorrow, think about this: a Republican White House victory in 2008. That'd mean four more years in Iraq and who knows what in Iran. It'd mean four more years of torture in prisons, of wire tapping our phones and computers, of making the environment worse, not working to reverse the damage. Four more years sounds far- fetched, doesn't it? The "surge" has failed. America's low standing in the world is matched by that of Bush's standing in the US. The Republican presidential candidates are in disarray. The American people "get it." The Republicans can't win again in 2008, right?

Well Rick, the surge HASN'T failed.  Unless you want to discredit the guy who's been over there and seen what it has and hasn't accomplished.  Or perhaps you haven't seen the testimony of the General seeing as how you posted this yesterday.

That I can forgive, but all reports and leaks coming out of Washington said that he had positive things to say.  So you're simply making assumptions.  Something I very rarely like to do.

Secondly, what makes you think a Republican would have us in Iraq another 4 years?  General Petraeus is saying that we can start bringing a lot of our guys home at the end of next summer if things keep going the way they are now. 

If America has such a low standing, why are there people STILL coming to America to build better lives for themselves?

And if American's "Get it".  Why do 72% of them say that no matter what General Petraeus says in his report, it won't change their mind about Iraq?  That's pretty close minded if you ask me.

Governor Schwarzenegger gave the delegates a talking to on Friday night, explaining that they had left the voters behind, that they had to address issues such as the environment and healthcare if they hoped to win another election. This was on the heels of his having called the Electoral College dirty tricks initiative part of a "loser's mentality" for those who seek to change the rules in the middle of the game.

Any candidate will lose the election if they don't pay attention to voters needs.  It doesn't matter which side of the aisle you're on.  Plus, the "loser's mentality" is what Democrats were wanting to do right after the 2000 and 2004 elections.  There were calls for reforming the Electoral College votes to more of a popular vote right afterwards that didn't go very far.  So if Democrats wanted to change the rules then, they shouldn't have a problem with changing the rules now right?

Travis

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Labels: Assumptions, Huffington Post, idiocy, iraq

# posted by Travis @ 12:53 PM