Patton and McCain
March 16th, 2008 at 06:59pm Matt DiBari
Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe has an editorial today on the Iraq war. He uses George Patton’s famous “Americans Love a Winner” speech to explain both John McCain’s success and the recent upswing in public opinion towards the Iraq war.
The article cites John Podhoretz’ Commentary article as further proof that Americans never wanted to fail in Iraq, despite what Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi may have thought. Americans handed them the Congress because we were not winning in Iraq. When Reid and Pelosi took this as a mandate to further their defeatist agenda, public approval of the Congress plummeted.
Mr. Jacoby makes it very clear that come November, America will have an option between the defeatism of Obama or Clinton and John McCain’s quest for victory.
And as Patton said, Americans love a winner.
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7 Comments
1. Sarah | March 17th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Americans love America.
2. Geoff | March 17th, 2008 at 11:24 am
At this point some of the signs are encouraging that Iraq will turn out to be a positive for Sen. McCain and the opposite for the Retreat-at-all-Costs Democratic nominee. But I think it’s also possible that Iraq will have improved to the point that it’s not an issue, and that instead voters will care only about the economy, which, as the nominee of the party holding the White House, will not be to Sen. McCain’s benefit.
3. Joe | March 17th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
But I think it’s also possible that Iraq will have improved to the point that it’s not an issue
Only if that $12 billion a month drops to about $2 billion a month and the 160k troop-level is down to about 60k.
Otherwise… Iraq will be a downer for McCain along with the awful economy (of which, according to his own admission, isn’t very good at understanding).
4. Sarah | March 17th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Senator McCain has a long and strong voting record as a fiscal conservative. For example, his principled votes against Medicare part D and against the original Bush tax cut bill, because there were no spending limits in the bill at the time.
5. Geoff | March 17th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
To be fair and honest, the absence of concurrent spending cuts was not the only reason Sen. McCain did not vote for the Bush tax-cuts, but also because he believed they were skewed to the wealthy.
6. Geoff | March 17th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I don’t think that is correct, Joe. If we are winning in Iraq and the American people recognize that fact to a genuine degree, then Iraq will not be a downer for Sen. McCain but on his Democratic opponent, who will have to account for their defeatist stances.
7. Sarah | March 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Please consider the possibility that John McCain anticipated the problem of defending the bill against the liberal media. Please consider, as well that the income divide in this country is something the liberal media frequently use to bash the conservative Right.