Have you heard about this: Petraeus for President (2012)?

[1776Forever]

Petraeus for President? Army General Keeps Speculation Alive
Aides Deny that Petraeus is Eyeing a Bid, but Analysts say He's Playing Coy

By HOWARD LaFRANCHI
May 16, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/david-petraeus-speculation-presidential-bid-alive/story?id=10645536

Speculation has run rampant for months that Gen. David Petraeus, who heads the US Army's Central Command and is widely credited with lead authorship of the "people first" counterinsurgency doctrine implemented in Iraq and Afghanistan, is toying with the idea of a run for the White House.

General Petraeus did little to squelch that speculation last week when he spoke at the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), one of Washington's premier conservative think tanks.

With former Vice President Dick Cheney and members of the Bush-era glitterati known as the neo-cons looking on, Petraeus accepted AEI's annual Irving Kristol Award, named after the giant of neo-conservatism -- a conservative ideology with roots in American liberal thinking that eschews realist foreign policy in favor of an activist and interventionist approach to the world. The highest goal of neo-conservatism is the spread of "American values" including freedom and democracy.

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Makes you go hmmmmmmm...

[dhill926]

1. keep your enemies close?.............n/t

[laughingliberal]

3. Let's hope that's the motive. nt

[pinboy3niner]

6. AND he's now made Afghanistan Petraeus' war, too. nt

[Dr Morbius]

2. Generals can win elections, but only if they come from popular wars.

The last general to successfully translate his military career into a Presidency was Adlai Stevenson, who left office nearly 50 years ago. The last before that was a civil war general, Grant.

[monmouth]

4. I'm thinking President Eisenhower...n/t

[BonnieJW]

5. You mean Eisenhower, right?

Adlai Stevenson wasn't president.

[murielm99]

7. He wasn't a general, either.

[laughingliberal]

9. delete - misread response. eom

[Dr Morbius]

16. Yeah.... I was tired. Sorry. (nt)

[Cleita]

8. Adlai Stevenson was a Democratic Governor of Illinois. He ran against Eisenhower and

lost. Eisenhower was a general who led troops in WWII. He beat Stevenson because he promised to end the Korean War. He did get the fighting to stop when he took office.

[Arkana]

10. Um....Dwight Eisenhower was the hero of WWII who became the 33rd President.

[NoPasaran]

17. Following Grant, Presidents Hayes and Garfield had also been generals

And while not a general, Teddy Roosevelt's time as colonel of the Rough Riders did nothing to damage his own political career.

[Sinistrous]

11. The neo-cons have been grooming Petraeus for years.

He will be running for President, in 2016, if not 2012.

[madokie]

12. And it'll take some serious grooming for betrayus to be anything close to presidential

his aspiration for the white house is not a worry of mine.

[Golden Raisin]

13. In a land where Bush the Younger

was President for 8 horrifying years and Sarah Palin was nominated and taken seriously as a Vice Presidential candidate (the proverbial heartbeat or bullet away) we all better worry because anything can and does happen here.

[madokie]

14. Not honestly it won't

and if you are wanting to include dishonesty then anything goes

[brooklynite]

15. Makes me go "naaa"

National defense is only one of the three Republican pillars. He supports eliminating DADT, so there go the Social Conservatives, and there's no proof he'd increase defense spending (which includes things like Government-provided health care and ) while cutting taxes.