MICHAEL J. TOTTEN DOESN'T KNOW WHICH PARTY'S NOMINEE HE WILL VOTE FOR IN 2008???

TOTTEN (see the comment thread):

I vote for members of both parties, and I don't know which party I'm voting for next year.

I find this extraordinarily bizarre.

After all, each and every one of the Democrat candidates has said they would withdraw by a date certain.

This a policy which observers as diverse as John Burns of the NYTIMES, Michael Ware of CNN, and O'Hanlon & Pollack of Brookings (all left-of-center observers from organizations highly supportive of Democrats and liberals and their policies) have uniformly said would be a genocidal disaster.

The hawkiest of the Dems is Hillary and even she supports withdrawal by a date certain.

Obama has made either major gaffes or major foreign policy errors: calling for attacking our ally, Pakistan, and deriding our soldiers in Afghanistan.

Biden has long favored an arbitrary withdrawal timetable.

Edwards too.

Ditto Richardson.

WHAT'S WORSE, The Dems all maintain this belief despite the gains our surge is winning. And, despite the signal it would send to friend and foe alike.

An anti-JFK signal. As JFK said in 1961:

"we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

HERE - WATCH IT YOURSELF:


The current Dems seem a lot less hawkish than JFK; the JFK of that Inaugural Speech would vote GOP today.

If one cares about the future of a democratic Iraq, and preventing genocide, then one cannot in good conscience support ANY of the Democrat candidates.

If Totten thinks that winning the war in Iraq and defending our allies in Iraq and in its Kurdistan region is important, then Totten is wrong not to have already made up his mind.

Furthermore, I believe that not a single Democrat running for the presidency can be trusted with our national security or the defense of the free world.

Voting for a Democrat now is like voting for a Copperhead in 1864.

Believing that, I have no choice but to vote for the GOP candidate for POTUS in 2008.

AND YES: I AM A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT - have been since 1974.

1974 - when the Dems pulled the plug on the nascent democracy of South Vietnam and stood by as - ONE YEAR LATER - North Vietnam violated the terms of the Paris Accords and INVADED the south. And it led to... genocide, tyranny, and totalitarianism in SE Asia.

Today's Dems want a repeat. In Iraq. And the Middle East.

I feel that Totten should know this; I wonder why he refuses to accept it?

Of all the Congressman who caucus with the Democrats, in either body of Congress, the only one who gets it is Lieberman. A man today's Democrat party couldn't renominate.

Joe gets it.

WHY CAN'T TOTTEN!?

IS HE TO THE LEFT OF LIEBERMAN?

COULD HE REALLY SUPPORT ANY OF THE DEMOCRATS NOW RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, OR THE TWO GORLLAS ON THE SIDELINE: GORE AND KERRY!?