Re: Iraq–Doesn’t anyone make the argument that W eventually won a tenuous semi-victory & Obama threw it away? twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
Re: Iraq–Doesn’t anyone make the argument that W eventually won a tenuous semi-victory & Obama threw it away? twitter.com/ByronYork/stat…
Dickerson should have asked each one of the candidates: Were there WMD in Iraq? Talk radio has been telling people for a decade that WMD were found but – somehow, for some reason – the media is covering it up and Bush was too much of a gentleman to argue.
Partisan Republicans are kind of like transgender people. They fervently believe something thats the opposite of reality. None of them argued with Trump when Trump said “There were no WMD” but they ought to have to say it out loud, especially Jeb! and Rubio.
Good point, KSantal. It’s all well and good, at this late stage, for conservative officialdom to feign outrage at “Bush lied…etc.” when it can be used as yet another brief against Trump. But the only reason Trump can even employ such an argument is that conservative intellectuals and operatives conceded it long ago. Love him or hate him, Trump has once again exposed the weakness of the Republican field (and the conservo-sphere generally) by advancing this position in the midst of a Republican primary. He’s showing contempt for his rivals, and making a pitch to the non- (or rather anti-) Republican electorate. He’s baiting the other candidates into defending the Iraq war, confident that none will do so in a forceful way–just as none has proved independent enough to seize the immigration issue away from Trump, and thereby supersede him.