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Stanley McChrystal is certainly not Douglas MacArthur, and I doubt that the administration will be dumb enough to allow him a venue in front of congress to give an "Old soldiers never die..." speech. Nevertheless, in my estimation, General McChrystal may have just become the front runner for the 2012 GOP nomination.
- McChrystal will have an instant platorm for speaking and fundraising
Certainly, he won't be able to discuss classified material, but McChrystal could quickly become a fixture at American Legion and VFW halls. The theme of his speech? "Our smart troops could win this war, but we have this dumb congress and this weak-kneed President...."
- His career has been in Special Forces
No, McChrystal is not a Medal-of-Honor winner, but I bet he's done a lot of really exciting stuff. However, most of it involved special forces and intelligence, so it's really exciting stuff he'd love to tell us about... but just can't. We are, however, free to use our imagination.
We're the land of the free, because of the brave...and he won't let us forget that for a minute
- He's a Political Outsider
He's not a public official... he's just a brave defender of freedom. To hear most conservatives solutions to our problems, what we need in Washington right now is more people with no meaningful experience in government.
- He'll be a return to the short, declarative statements of the Bush years.
Things are simple. Conservatives know this simple truth. We don't need all of that fancy, long-winded, book learning we get from the professor in the White House. We need this kind of thinking to address the issues that really matter:
Gays in the military? BAD Islam? BAD Jesus? AWESOME Abortion? VERY BAD Health Care Reform? BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD... VERY BAD Income Taxes? AS BAD AS ISLAM, GAYS IN THE MILITARY, HEALTH CARE REFORM, AND ABORTION, PUT TOGETHER "Under God" in the pledge? GOOD Distribute Christian Bibles in Afghanistan? YES (note: this is a huge issue to many fundies) North Korea? MORE TROOPS Illegal immigration? MORE TROOPS Oil Prices? WAR IN IRAN Unemployment? SEE "OIL PRICES" The deficit? CUT ALL OF THE CRADLE-TO-GRAVE ENTITLEMENTS TO PAY FOR MORE TROOPS
- He's a victim ... just like you!
Is your business overtaxed? Did you not get the bail-out you deserved? Are you afraid of losing your gun collection to the socialists? Well here is the candidate for you! A brave soldier, fighting for freedom, who lost his livelihood because of (wait for it)....... Barack Obama!
So...it will not shock me at all to see McChrystal emerge as the lightning rod for administration opposition, and a McChrystal/Ron Paul 2012 ticket would not surprise me one bit.
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