in the next Presidential Election?
2007-09-13 06:03:07 · 16 answers · asked by danno 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
It will be a one of the straws that breaks the donkey's back. I really think people in general are tired of all the negativity and lack of respect. The man is one of our highest ranking military leaders. He deserves to be treated with civility. Extreme negative campaigning tends to turn off voters in the end, and I hope that is the case here.
I don't like it when EITHER side engages in negative campaigning and it instantly turns me off of whichever candidate is doing it. Stand on your own merits and stick to issues. Personal attacks are inappropriate.
2007-09-13 06:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by ItsJustMe 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
One would HOPE so. There have been numerous other times when we thought certain things would be their demise........such as 'Whitewater'. 'travelgate', 'Vince Foster suicide', and ad infinitum. I realize this is all 'Clinton shenanigans', but it goes to show the Democrats, all of them, seem to bounce back from the most horrendous things, things that would have strangled the Republicans. The Dems would have crucified simillar things if the Reps were caught doing the same things.........know what I am saying? This thing with Petraeus is abominable, and the NY Times is playing the dirty and bloody game right along with them. Aiding and abetting. SHAMEFUL.
2007-09-13 14:30:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Dimmocraps OWN defeat. They cannot admit to anything else. The drumbeat of the entire left is the defeat of the U.S. and therefore the defeat of George Bush. Their "Hate George Bush Syndrome" is so deep and strong that they cannot stand to see George Bush successful at ANYTHING he does, even if it means the defeat of our military and our loss in the war on terror.
Will this cause their loss in the next election? Hell, no! The American people are sheeple with short to no memories of what has gone before and won't vote against the hand that feeds them their welfare and government largess.
They will listen to the same old promises and continue to believe them. They will listen to the same claims of repoopdecrap corruption from the most corrupt politicians this country has ever known.
The trouble is that we have NO viable candidates from ANY third party to mount a campaign against the corrupt two party system that we now have that would have any chance of success.
The dimmocraps are headed for a very hard fall, but it may not happen in the coming election. The repoopdecraps have such troubles in their own house that they will be hard pressed to hang on to what they've got.
2007-09-13 13:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by Big Jon 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Unwarranted? Please. This is the man at the helm of all of our troops in Iraq. The day we stop asking the hard questions of our leaders is the day we become a dictatorship. No thanks. Someone had to ask the hard questions, though Warner did a fine job on the Republican side of things. No, it won't affect the election in a negative way. There are millions of us who are tired of the spin and want some hard cold truth instead. We aren't going to get that from the party that coddles each other endlessly.
2007-09-13 14:19:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
While I would certainly hope so, unfortunately, I doubt it. Questioning people in authority is one thing; public contempt for a person who has served his people tirelessly for years is quite another. The problem is that our younger generation sees absolutely nothing wrong with impugning the character of a person that has earned his way getting an education to becoming a 4-star General, unlike politicians who lie to get elected, then try to embarrass a man that earned his stars the hard way. But the General got the best of them and let that be a lesson to anyone blinded by Bush hatred.
2007-09-13 13:11:16 · answer #5 · answered by Thegustaffa 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nah... Some random scandal will knock out the biggest candidates they have... The war at large... they backed down. Many were in fact (argue this one) just like the enemy telling our own soldiers on CNN that all was lost instead of supporting them until they were called on it as traitors...then they changed to supporting the troops and not the war. By and by, they will hang themselves, as lord knows they have enough rope to do so already. The good general is only do his job...but as it needs to be done. Without prejudice for either party.
2007-09-13 13:14:14 · answer #6 · answered by NY PTK 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It pales in comparison to the mess of a situation that the Republicans made of the whole country. We will have to work three times as hard to just get back to where we started before the current bunch of clowns came into power.
2007-09-13 13:10:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
No. Questioning people in authority is part of democracy. Otherwise you are saying we are under martial law or under a dictatorship. In that case, there would have been a bloodless coup d'etat.
2007-09-13 13:10:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, but even France has finally discovered the problems with come with socialism and is swinging back to a more conservative stance as a matter of survival.
2007-09-13 13:10:43 · answer #9 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
John Warner and Chuck Hagel were the most vocal, and they are Republicans.
2007-09-13 13:09:11 · answer #10 · answered by Mitchell . 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋