Romney Camp: Pelosi's Syria Visit Is Bad Because She Opposes Iraq War

[babylonsister]

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/05/romney_camp_pelosis_syria_visit_is_bad_because_she_opposes_iraq_war

Romney Camp: Pelosi's Syria Visit Is Bad Because She Opposes Iraq War
By Greg Sargent | bio

This is pretty revealing. In an interview about Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria, a spokesperson for Mitt Romney inadvertently gave away the game and revealed the real reason for the GOP criticism of her.

The moment came in this piece in a Pennsylvania local paper called the Lancaster Intelligencer Herald that I flagged earlier for a different reason. The piece reports on Romney's criticism of Pelosi, then interviews his spokesperson about the fact that Republicans also went to Syria:

Romney spokeswoman Sarah Pompei said during an interview later in the day Romney believes the United States should have "one foreign policy" and that Pelosi's visit will "create confusion and undermine our interests abroad."

"Nancy Pelosi is different because she is third in line to the presidency and the chief promoter of the troop withdrawal , which runs counter to the president's foreign policy agenda," Pompei said.

Yep -- her trip to Syria is different because she's the "chief promoter of the troop withdrawal." There you have it laid bare. This is all about the fact that Pelosi is the official taking the lead in the drive to end the Iraq war. This couldn't be more straightforward, really.

Look, when Pelosi took power this year there was no shortage of pundits -- and Republicans -- who kept issuing somber warnings that if she went too far in carrying out the will of the Antiwar Majority and took actual steps to try to end the war, she'd suffer badly as a result. Pelosi disregarded this "advice" from the punditry and pressed ahead with the people's business. Whatever its imperfections, the House bill to end the war is the most aggressive thing that possibly could have passed the House, and judging by the shrieks and head-banging noises coming from the office of Fred Hiatt it represents a real threat, a real start in the direction of grinding this war to a halt.

Bottom line: Pelosi is the front-woman in the effort to halt this catastrophe; she's showing early results; and most important of all, the public is supporting her efforts. This simply wasn't supposed to happen. So, in addition to all the things Josh says, the noise about the Syria trip is really a howl of frustration at Pelosi's preliminary successes and the public's support of them, a last-ditch effort to paint her as a friend of the terr'ists in order to fool the American people into opposing her efforts to carry out their own desire to see Bush's war halted for good. As Romney's spokesperson makes plain, it's all about Iraq.

[AX10]

1. Will Mitt Romney ever take a solid position or will he just change them..

as it fits his campaign? The latter is most likely.

[Bitwit1234]

2. Please tell me how

to post a link - say on a forum..I belong to the Frey, the Slate forum. I am so sick of the crap the republicans post about dems. Now they are again making fun of Nancy Pelosi wearing the head scarf. I have found pictures of Laura Bush all wrapped up in what appears to be a Burka. And Nancy Reagan with a head scarf when she visited an Arab. What I would like to do is post the link, but I don't know how.

I know you cut and paste the URL - name it - and then go to where you want to display it...but I can't get it to work..Cut and paste is easy. But where to you save the cut and paste till you name it and post in on the forum....I guess I am stupid but I don't know how...Make it posting for dumb dumb dummies.

[babylonsister]

3. You copy the link; don't paste it til you get it to where you want it to be.

And I'm not sure what you mean by naming it.
Does that help?

[Bitwit1234]

4. Well when you copy....and...

then get to where you want it to be you have to have a name for people to click on to go to the - say picture - I want to display..Just copy and paste is not what I want to do. I need to take it to a forum and the forum does not allow pictures just a link..I know I am not making my self too clear. But maybe someone might understand. I have it all written down. But I still can't understand it.

[babylonsister]

6. Read this and see if it helps (for pix):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3882686

[Bitwit1234]

8. Thanks I will try it.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Excellent post, Sister

No one is taking the Bushies seriously any more except the Bush babies, all 28% of them.

First they screamed it was a bad idea; then they found out she was carrying a message from the Israeli PM to the Syrian president. It was a real diplomatic mission and the Bushies were out of the loop. That sounds like the Israeli PM's idea.

So other heads of state don't think Bush can get the job done and go to the leader of another co-equal branch of government.

Normally, I would be a little concerned about the Speaker of the House going on a diplomatic mission like this. However, these are not normal times. Our presumptive president is a failure at a level that sets news standards for failure. He and his aides are nothing if they are not liars; who could blame Prime Minister Ohlmert if he has decided that no member of the executive branch under Bush can be trusted with a message of calm to the President of Syria?

In bygone ages when civilized nations were typically governed under an inherently corrupt system called monarchy, there was alway the problem of what do if the King were either a child or a demented old man incapable of making decisions. Under those circumstances, somebody would act as regent and govern the country as a crooked autocrat, just like a real king. He was called the regent.

Speaker Pelosi may have just become our President regent this week. It should be evident after six years that no one in the Bush regime knows how to govern or direct an effective foreign policy.

[AndyA]

7. Note to Romney: MOST OF AMERICA IS AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR.

That would put Pelosi in the MAJORITY, and you in the MINORITY.

Where the hell have you been since November, anyway? Trying to get one of your old Rambler junkers started? :rofl:

[The Magistrate]

9. Indeed, Sir

Calling her the 'chief promoter of the troop withdrawl' is hardly going to render her unpopular, in a political environmenmt in which at least sixty percent of voters favor that course....