Watch Iran’s Navy
Iran commissioned a stealth attack submarine on November 28, adding a dangerous and potentially destabilizing weapon to its aggressive arsenal. Built with Russian help, the Ghadir is capable of launching torpedoes and missiles simultaneously.
Perhaps Iran has suspended its nuke program. Perhaps not. An advanced sub patrolling the Med in the hands of Iranian nuts is bad news for that part of the world.
Makes me wish I was still in our submarine force. I never got to fire a Snap Shot at a submerged target–but I practiced a lot.
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Tags: Iran, submarines
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The GOP Horse Race
Mike Huckabee’s recent ascent through the polls is about to reverse itself.
Looking through RealClearPolitics news stories and polls, I saw a pattern:
- Huckabee says something stupid
- Romney fires off attack ads on Huckabee
- Huckabee makes something up that might not be true
- Romney fires off attack ads on Huckabee
- Huckabee attacks Romney’s ads
- Repeat until sick
Let’s assume that people in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, and the Palmetto State are not sadists who pick a candidate based primarily upon his or her ability to insult and impugn opponents. While negative advertising works well in politics, it works better between parties than within them. With McCain now attacking Romney, we can fairly safely predict
- The negative ads against Huckabee will hurt him badly, especially since they’re corroborated by Huckabee’s international ignorance and questionable honesty
- The negative ads against Romney will prevent him from gaining from Huckabee’s demise
- McCain’s numbers are locked in, just as they were in 1999-2000
- Voters are tired of candidates whose last names end with a long “ee” sound (or maybe that’s just me)
Huckabee’s credibility on foreign policy is dead, and his reputation for honesty isn’t too healthy. In addition to his inexcusable gaffes about Pakistan, Ed Morrissey points to a Politico report in which Huckabee told reporters that former UN Ambassador John Bolton agreed to join his team. Bolton, however, denied that he’d even spoken to Huckabee’s team.
California Conservative points to another recent gaffe of Huckbee’s, in which he seemed to indicate that foreign policy is not important since a president can “pluck out one of the tens of thousands of people who work” in the State Department. That’s like saying a cancer patient can simply grab any of the 500 employees of Barnes-Jewish Hospital to treat his disease.
WE are told that conservative Christians powered Huckabee’s recent rise. If true, then the beneficiary of his demise will have to be a social conservative and, likely, a Christian. That eliminates Romney (Morman), Giuliani (social liberal), McCain (unclear social position) from the displaced voter pool. This might be wishful thinking, but Thompson would stand to gain the lion’s share of disheartened Huckabee voters.
Another point in Thompson’s favor is his below-the-radar position. By avoiding negativity, Thompson has lost the free advertising the others have enjoyed, but he’s also avoided foreign object damage from negative ads aimed his way. If Thompson can use his recent fund raising success to present himself as a positive, conservative alternative to the mudslingers, empty suits, and liberals, he could score a big surprise in Iowa.
Whatever Thompson’s fate, Huckabee is done. Republicans may not list foreign policy as their top criterion, but they will not nominate a foreign policy lightweight who lies.
UPDATE: CBS News has found at least one Iowa voter who is switching from Huckster to Thompson because of Huckabee’s foreign policy blunders:
Could Huckabee’s lack of foreign policy experience be hurting him in Iowa? It made the difference tonight for at least one voter at a Fred Thompson event in Fort Madison.
“I was a Huckabee supporter until about a week ago,” said Brian Wright, a Fort Madison resident. “And then I heard his comment about Pakistan today.”
Candidate switchers are like mice–if you see one, there’s a whole bunch you haven’t seen.
election 2008, fred thompson, Huckabee, Iowa Caucuses, John McCain, Mitt Romney
Huckabee Slammed By Senior Aide
From CNN:
A senior aide to Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee admitted Friday that the former Arkansas governor had “no foreign policy credentials” after his comments reacting to the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto raised questions.
When a candidate’s senior aide admits the candidate knows nothing about the world beyond Arkansas, USA, the voters must take the aide seriously.
A vote for Huckabee might be more un-American than a vote for a Democrat. Either is vote for America’s collapse, but at least the Democrats know they’ll cause our downfall. Huckabee’s just plain clueless. The guy can’t point out Cananda on a map of Canada.
Previously, Huckabee was unaware of the National Intelligence Assessment that concluded Iran suspended its nuke program in 2003. He also thought Pakistan was west of Afghanistan, so don’t let him drive.
foreign affairs, geography, Huckabee
Democrats Prove Incapable . . . Again
The two leading Democrat contenders for president took time out from their campaigns, yesterday, using Benazir Bhutto’s assassination to demonstrate their utter incapability and unpreparedness to lead the world’s last remaining superpower.
Obama
Barrack Obama’s team blamed the United States, George Bush, and everyone who supported the Iraq War for Bhutto’s assassination. In other words, like the child he is, Obama blamed everyone but himself.
Clinton
Our friend Gateway Pundit points out that Hillary’s soliloquy on Bhutto centered on the Senators long, close, personal relationship with Bhutto that lasted a dozen years. But the Pundit found some critical errors that indicate Senator Clinton lied about how well she knew Bhutto:
** Benazir Bhutto’s father was hanged- not assassinated.
** Benazir Bhutto had 3 children not 2.Clearly, Senator Clinton did not know Benazir Bhutto as well as she would like you to think… [source]
Conclusion
With nuclear weapons getting closer and closer to Usama bin Laden’s filthy hands, the world needs a leader prepared to deal with dangerous terrorists. The Democrat Party offers no such leaders. The GOP offers four in Thompson, Romney, Giuliani, and McCain.
Vote Republican. A vote for Democrats is a vote for defeat.
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Tags: Bhutto, Hillary_Clinton, Barrack Obama, Fred_Thompson, Mitt_Romney, Rudy_Giuliani, John_McCain
Democrats Combat Surge With Propaganda Campaign
Just a few days, other bloggers (Captain Ed) and I speculated on the ramifications on Democrat surrender strategies of the increasingly obvious improvements in Iraq since the surge began. Ever the WaPo worried about how the Dems would deal.
Now we know: propaganda.
Following the phony story that Gen. Pace would urge the President to cut troops in Iraq by half, the Red Crescent, today, released a report that a record number of Iraqis have fled their homes in fear of their lives since the surge began.
“Does this surge have anything to do with it? We don’t know,” said Saeed Haqi, head of the Iraqi Red Crescent - the local partner organization of the International Committee of the Red Cross. “But they’re leaving because of the security situation in general.” (source)
Yesterday, the AP ran a story based solely on its own “compilations” headlined: “Iraq Body Count Running at Double Pace.” The yellow story cites no authority other than the AP itself. But the AP’s lack of credible sources doesn’t prevent it from demanding a higher standard from anyone who challenges its assertions:
Brig. Gen. Richard Sherlock, deputy director for operational planning for the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said violence in Iraq “has continued to decline and is at the lowest level since June 2006.”
He offered no statistics to back his claim.
What brazenness. The big media, the “drive-bys” as Rush Limbaugh calls them, are different agencies of the same body, like Sinn Féin is to the IRA. CNN reporters take LOAs to run Democrat campaign. Recently, MSNBC checked out 143 reporters, discovering that 125 had donated cash to Democrats or liberal political organizations. Only 16 reporters gave to Republicans. Clearly, the DNC has provided the MSM careful instructions on reporting on Iraq. Bastards.
Democrat Lies, DNC, Iraq Coverage, msm
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