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I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 2:17 am
by FullDJacket
I don't see any other republican who can beat Obama at this point. Mitt Romney commited political suicide with his health care reform in Massachusetts, Sarah Palin is brain dead and Ron Paul is an old lunatic. Who else is there?

It's too bad Petraeus agreed to take over the CIA. :(


"In thinking about how to cope with political divisions in the United States over Iraq, he was influenced, he told me recently, by Samuel Huntington’s 1957 book “The Soldier and the State,” which argues that civilian control over the military can best be achieved when uniformed officers regard themselves as impartial professionals. Petraeus is registered to vote as a Republican in New Hampshire—he once described himself to a friend as a northeastern Republican, in the tradition of Nelson Rockefeller—but he said that around 2002, after he became a two-star general, he stopped voting. As he departed for Baghdad, to oversee a “surge” deployment of additional American troops to Iraq, he sought, as he recalled it, “to try to avoid being pulled in one direction or another, to be in a sense used by one side or the other.” He added, “That’s very hard to do, because you become at some point sort of the face of the war, the face of the surge. So be it. You just have to deal with that."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008 ... _fact_coll

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 9:42 am
by Skate4RnR
This world needs a Republican that's willing to properly armor our soldiers before sending them in to slaughter.

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:31 am
by EvilMadman
David Petraeus & Condoleezza Rice 2012

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Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 1:22 pm
by SeminiferousButtNoid
Career military men are completely clueless about anything that doesn't have to do with the military, look at Eisenhower and Grant. Plus he's a hawk and we just had 8 years with one and we have a self-loathing closet hawk in office now.

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:27 pm
by EvilMadman
SeminiferousButtNoid wrote:Career military men are completely clueless about anything that doesn't have to do with the military, look at Eisenhower and Grant. Plus he's a hawk and we just had 8 years with one and we have a self-loathing closet hawk in office now.
Think it's pretty much a moot point now anyway.

After the Bin Laden assassination, NO ONE is going to defeat Obama in 2012. Unless the economy reaches Great Depression levels and that hasn't happened yet.

Plus, most Republican candidates are ridiculous asshats. :lol:

Huckabee.
Romney.
Palin. She cares more about being a celebrity/"the next Oprah" (or so I've heard).
Trump. He's nuts. lol
Ron Paul.
Pawlenty.
Gingrich. I like Gingrich, but no chance.
Mitch Daniels. Who?
Bachmann.
Santorum.
Gary Johnson. Who?
Alan Keyes. LOL

Herbert Cain seemed like a sensible, decent enough chap.

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 5:18 pm
by Liquid Boom Boom
Lt. Col. Allen West could beat Obama. http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/ He's a good man.

Bin Laden or not, BHO is going to have to defend the economy, Libya fiasco, unemployment, skyrocketing debt, a stimulus of a trillion dollars that did nothing but fund pet projects, forcing Obamacare down everyone's throat and lord knows what else by 2012. He's beatable, but not with the current crop of Republican douches.

Patraeus is interesting....I'd love to hear his platform. He's a smart MF, I bet he has an interesting take on the current state of affairs.

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 10:21 pm
by Skate4RnR
Barry's doing a good job for us lowlife motherfuckers that ain't millionaires so I'll vote for him again.

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 6:37 pm
by Total Ass
Skate4RnR wrote:Barry's doing a good job for us lowlife motherfuckers that ain't millionaires so I'll vote for him again.
Examples?

Re: I want General Petraeus to run for president in 2012

Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 4:07 am
by Skate4RnR
Total Ass wrote:
Skate4RnR wrote:Barry's doing a good job for us lowlife motherfuckers that ain't millionaires so I'll vote for him again.
Examples?
He sent me a welfare check or two.