Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Flip-Flopping GOP in disarray over War on Terror
President Bush has flip-flopped pretty badly recently by first maintaining for many months that the War on Terror can be won. Then as Carla noted in her post the other day, he said it can't be won. And now he's flip-flopped back to his earlier position that it can be won.
Former Republican speaker of the House and FOX News Channel contributor Newt Gingrich said that Kerry would be "really silly" to argue that he could "win the war on terror." Media Matters reports,
So basically they've got Gingrich holding to a position that defines Bush as being "really silly" because he asserts (well... when he's not flip-flopping, of course) that we can win the War on Terror.
I think the way this is supposed to work, from the demented point of view of Bush partisans, is that no matter what Kerry says he's wrong by some NeoCon hack's definition. Of course the logical implication here is that the average American voter is simply too stupid to see thru the BS. But, as usual, they're counting on you not being bright enough to understand that.
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Former Republican speaker of the House and FOX News Channel contributor Newt Gingrich said that Kerry would be "really silly" to argue that he could "win the war on terror." Media Matters reports,
On the August 30 edition of FOX News Channel's Hannity & Colmes, which aired live from the Republican National Convention, co-host Alan Colmes asked Gingrich about Bush's remark that the war on terror is not winnable. Gingrich said, "I'm sure you're going to have John Kerry, if he's not careful, saying something really silly, which is that he'd win the war on terror." Yet, as Media Matters for America has noted, it was Bush who said on July 30: "We have a clear vision on how to win the war on terror and bring peace to the world.
So basically they've got Gingrich holding to a position that defines Bush as being "really silly" because he asserts (well... when he's not flip-flopping, of course) that we can win the War on Terror.
I think the way this is supposed to work, from the demented point of view of Bush partisans, is that no matter what Kerry says he's wrong by some NeoCon hack's definition. Of course the logical implication here is that the average American voter is simply too stupid to see thru the BS. But, as usual, they're counting on you not being bright enough to understand that.
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