Right Wing Pushing Petraeus For President

[RedEarth]

The GOP presidential field seemed complete last night when former senator Fred Thompson finally announced he was jumping into the race. But apparently the right-wing isn’t satisfied with its choices and is hoping that the race may have room for one more candidate — Gen. David Petraeus.

Today, the New York Sun has an editorial entitled “Petraeus for President?” In the piece, the editorial writers pen the speech they would like Petraeus to give on the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks:

I am prepared, even eager, to command our forces in this battle — but only on one condition: That you signal that you share my goal of victory. If you think I am mistaken and wish to continue your efforts to undermine me, then I cannot command. Absent that signal, I will resign, effective immediately, and take my case to the voters in a run for the presidency on a campaign to finish the work of winning the war and redeeming the sacrifice of so many Iraqis, allies, and our own GIs.

The Corner’s Kathryn Jean Lopez approvingly linked to the editorial this morning, titling her post “Dream Sequence.” Last spring, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol told the Harvard Republican Club that he and other “conservative insider” believe “a ticket of Fred Thompson and David Petraeus might be able to avert electoral disaster for the GOP” in 2008.

It’s unlikely that Petraeus would be as warmly received by the American public, which wants withdrawal from Iraq. According to a Rasmussen poll of major political figures, Petraeus has an approval rating of only 24 percent — a number lower than even Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/06/petraeus-president/

[MADem]

1. Uhhhhhhh....let me put it this way: Eisenhower, he AIN'T. NT

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Ike won a war...

Petraeus prolonged a lost cause. Any questions?;)

[TwilightGardener]

2. What's with the lines?

[rodeodance]

3. Condi was their gal for while also.

[Lautremont]

4. "President Betrayus"

Has a nice ring.

I'm not too worried about it ever actually happening, though. The Iraq-batross around his neck is too heavy.

[TornadoTN]

6. Perhaps, but you can be sure the V.P. nod will go to a military man

For the Republicans, it's the only strategy that will connect with voters at the polls when they cast their ballots. Remind the voter throughout the campaign that "our boys are in harms way, we can't leave them their with the mission incomplete!", leaving the "completing the mission" out there just to make the people feel that its within reach. Name a V.P. with military expierence (Iraqi war military expierience even better - think Petraeus or Franks) and all those voters that have that on their minds go to the polls and cast accordingly. The illusion of having a "Eisenhower" as a V.P. would be the perfect scenario for their endless scheme of war and division.

[acmavm]

7. Name one honorable military man who would take the job and

run with that bunch of clucks and f*cks.

[TornadoTN]

9. That's the catch, they don't have to be honorable

Naturally, anyone who would get in bed with the G.O.P. is the anthesis of honorable. They only have to wear the uniform and spout the rhetoric.

[spanone]

8. simply pathetic...how about larry craig? he's been on tv a lot.

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Good grief

If you want a general for president, go with General Clark, a much, much better choice.

[krispos42]

11. gotta fix that "strike" command there in the post

Past that...

<sniff sniff> Smell that? Republican fustration and disenchantment!

Smells like.... liberty! :-)

[TwilightGardener]

12. How many GOPer candidates are they going to throw at the wall

to see if one finally sticks? Jeeezus, what a sorry and desperate lot of losers--I guess Petraeus is the next logical step after digging up a former Senator from a TV show.