I found myself today, listening to John McCain (or as Tyler Borg and I like to refer to him as: Good Ol' Balls McCain) speaking about how lucky we are that we have NOT pulled our troops out of Iraq.
Video here At first I was like, a little shocked. I was because of this reason: This man is running for President. He is running for President in a nation where the majority of Americans feel and say that the Iraq war was a major mistake, most people want the troops home, and the popularity of the people who got us into war, are extremely low. I will now depart from the notion of whether or not I think the war is a good or bad idea, that should be obvious, but instead, I will focus on how this will be the downfall of Good Ol' Balls McCain.
In order for him to run a successful campaign, he is going to have to convince the American public that the Iraqi war is a GOOD idea, and that he was right all along in advocating its start.
I just don't think this is possible for the Republican party to pull off, there is too much public dissent and opposition, and the other two candidates in the race, are stomping him into the ground with their turn-out numbers, while running on a heavily anti- "100 years in Iraq" platform.
And if either of the Democratic candidates put two and two together, and link the Iraqi war WITH the failing economy, it will be lights out.
The Democratic candidate doesn't even have to show a strong correlation between the trillions of dollars spent over there, and the poor shape of the economy here, that candidate will just merely have to put the thoughts in our heads. It makes sense, it is provable to some extent, and the public is already heavily leaning in that direction.
Slam dunk anyone? No, I won't go that far.....yet
But just remember what I said Iraq War = Poor American economy and weak dollar
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