Is Bush supporting the surge to screw McCain?

[CTLawGuy]

I think so.

Remember that before the election McCain had come out and said that we should put more troops in.
At that point Bush was "stay the course" all the time.

I bet McCain didn't think Bush would change from that.

It makes sense, Bush is trying to run out his clock, so that when the next president has to deal with the problem that president can be blamed when Iraq inevitably collapses.

McCain probably thought Bush would continue to say "stay the course" and wait out the rest of his term.

McCain could thus propose this "brilliant" new idea of a surge and use it to hang his presidential hat on. He looks good when Bush continues what he is doing and, predictably, the situation gets no better.

But after the election, which was a mandate for an end to the situation in Iraq, Bush preempts McCain's idea. Why?

Bush is a guy who never changes his mind, who never listens to anyone, and who never admits a mistake. Why would Bush suddenly change course now, especially when he can run out the clock?

I think it's because he doesn't like McCain. Now that Bush is doing McCain's idea, McCain looks like a horse's ass when it doesn't work. He loses it as a platform. Dems are smartly calling it the McCain doctrine.

The funny thing is Bush gets no advantage from doing this. He couldn't reasonably believe that 20k more troops out of 140k will make any difference (the military estimated securing the country (back in 2003) would have needed about 400k troops). The surge is politically unpopluar. All Bush needs to do is keep Iraq from completely falling apart until his term ends.

The only explanation is he is trying to sabotage McCain. I'm guessing it might be bad blood from 2000 or Bush shilling for another candidate.

[rwenos]

1. Bush Has No Reason to Care

. . . whether he screws McCain. Do you SERIOUSLY think Pigfuck cares which Pub wins the WH next time around? He'll be checking out his new digs at the Carlyle Group's offices in NYC, and the phone links to Crawford.

He probably cares a helluva lot more who will be the new SecState and SecDef in the next Pub administration. And more about who's the president of Paraguay, so far as his big new real estate holding in the Gran Chaco is concerned.

Would that he might care about who would be Attorney General, and whether a grand jury is being impaneled.

But I don't think he cares about anything more than his own selfish pigfucking interests, and those of his selfish pigfucking family.

[CTLawGuy]

2. He's a petty, vindictive guy

so of course he does.

[babylonsister]

3. No. nt

[Hosnon]

4. No...McCain is one of the best Republican candidates out there. Bush is still a party

loyal.

He would not do that.

Edit: By "best" I mean "most electable".

[aquart]

6. Riiiight. Because he tests so well.

Especially when you mention his age.

Hint: DU has moved on. We're slobbering over Republican Hagel now, not Republican McCain.

[Singular73]

5. Heh, no.

They are cutting all kinds of deals with McCain as we speak.

Lets see if the raidcal right embraces him.

Doubtful. A guy like Brownback will get the nomination.

[MonkeyFunk]

7. Brownback has no chance

an arch-conservative Catholic?

A LOT of social conservatives won't vote for ANY Catholic, and a lot of moderate Catholics won't vote for an arch-conservative.

He has no name recognition, he's dull, he's not attractive. No chance at all.

[Rebellious Republican]

8. This picture says it all.........

[sendero]

9. I doubt it..

... he is making this vain effort to try to salvage his "legacy", to hope against hope that somehow he can fix this disaster and make his daddy proud.

You know and I know it's not going to happen, but going double or nothing is easy when you are betting with other people's lives and money.