McAmesty is a one trick pony. His only appeal is his commendable stance on the troop surge. That is it, period. On no other issue has McAmesty stood with the Republican leadership in the last 8 years.

I think it is clear that Mitt Romney was not endorsing timetables in the context of the conversation. Clearly he was speaking towards allowing the president to set the agenda for troop levels in Iraq without making an announcement to the world and the enemy what those plans maybe.

This arises from the McFliper now because he is losing on the economy, which he knows nothing about (fought against the Bush tax cuts), he is losing on immigration (Oh! now I get it) and he is losing on his "Global Warming" which hunt. Even as we speak, he is becoming John Kerry before our very eyes. In the debate, he claims NOW to support making the Bush tax cuts permanent after having voted against them, which is very much like one of his liberal buddies, Mr Kerry, except McFliper's version is "I actually voted for them after I voted against them."

Now today, McAmesty evolves yet again on immigration. First he tried last year to force an amnesty deal down our throats, cursed other Republicans who tried to make it so criminal illegals couldn't get the amnesty package, teamed up with Harry Reid to block Republicans from amending the bill and fought against fence building on the border. Now, McAmnesty announces he is for the "attrition approach" which the other Republican candidates have been touting from the beginning.

McAmnesty has often defended his pro-illegal immigrant stance with the line "I'm not going to tell a soldier serving our country in Iraq that his wife is about to be deported." My question is "Why would one of our soldiers knowingly jeopardize his career by marrying an law-breaking illegal alien? If he married her, why didn't he file for an adjustment of status to keep her here?" Furthermore, if a soldier's son steals a car, commits identity fraud, or any other crime are we then are supposed to just turn our head and forget about it because his Dad is a soldier? I don't think so. Such an argument is silly in that it is a ridiculous one in a million occurrence and a soldier or private citizen who knowingly marries an illegal alien is quite aware of the risk they are taking and is maybe even complicit in the their spouse's crime.

I am pro-legal immigration. I am married to a legal immigrant myself so I know of what I speak and I have paid the thousands in fees and documentation and spent the time in interviews at embassies and at the Immigration service to show for it.

McAmnesty only proves his lack of economic knowledge by not understanding the effect illegal immigration has had on our economy. The net result of illegal immigration has been to artificially suppress wage growth in this country. Without illegal immigration, American construction and plant workers would have much higher incomes instead of seeing the cost of living rise without wage growth as has been the case for the last twenty years.

Speaking of someone willing to wave the White Flag, McIdon'tknowsquat believes America's days of being an industrial Giant are over and that the whole economy can be service and technology based. What crap! How are we susposed to be able to defend this nation without strategic industries? During WWII, our automobile plants made tanks and airplanes and we had the steel plants to support their production. Smith Corona, a type writer manufacturer, made firearms. The list of industry mobilized for the war effort is long but could not have happened if the industry did not exist. Microsoft and Domino's pizza will not win a war against China should it happen and it could. In a war against China, we would be is a terrible fix because they would cut-off our steel, cut-off our consumer products, flood the market with our currency, crash our stock market by liquidating their "Sovereign Investments" in US banks and capital markets and totally destroy our ability to fight. Take into account the amount of technology we have exported to them that they will use against us in a cyber-attack against our infrastructure and their anti-satellite warfare. So for all of McLostcall's bluster on being a "leader and military genuious" his willingness to continue the export of American industry in favor of "Green Jobs", which are the most useless of all strategically, he is actually signing off on the articles of our defeat in any global conflict.

It is little surprise then that McMessofthings would try to misdirect his own failures by pointing fingers at an out of context quote.

John McCain is stretching the truth to pin a tail on poor Mitt Romney. This is McCain trickery pure ansd simple.
John McCain has never met a Democrat he didn't like. He calls himself a maverick but as George Will said anyone who believes what he believes we call a Dwemocrat.
McCain is for amnesty McCain/Kennedy, against free speech McCain/Feingold, for global warming taxes McCain/Lieberman, against Bush tax cuts. This beltway Senator is business as usual for the driveby media no wonder he has been endorsed by the New York Times and their ilk.
He is out of step with true conservatives: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin and George Will. Fox News has fallen into the trap with Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke all moderates promoting McCain.
GOP don't let the liberal Democrats nominate our candidate for President in 08! Jerry White, Springfield, IL

I'll go with Romney on this one. Wasn't McCain also quoted in 2007 as saying he would be okay with benchmarks and timetables? That's rich, for him to be criticizing Romney for saying pretty much the same thing now.

They say when you get old, your memory is the first thing to go.....thus appears to be McCain's problem regarding what he thought Mitt Romney said, but can't articulate with accuracy....

I think it is really sad that one can go out and tell blatant lies and get away with it, like McCain and Clinton have done

John Amnesty McCain is the perpetual war candidate.He stated we might be in Iraq for 100 years.When the subject of war comes up watch the happy glint in McCain's tired old eyes.This man is unbalanced,and has a horrible temper.I can't think of any war he has opposed.McCain=more American body bags and constant war and belligerent saber rattling.I detest this shallow fake.

MCCAIN IS PRESIDENTIAL

romney is residential

I searched for this quote after the debate tonight so I could read it for myself. Here's how I read it. Romney was asked about timetables for withdrawing troops, not timetables for troop levels or progress reports. He answered affirmatively. He even talked about the timetables being not public because the enemy will know how long before you'll be gone. I read that as withdrawing troops. So naturally, the follow up question dealt with vetoing a bill that includes timetables for withdrawing troops. Romney continued to stress that revealing the timetables to the enemy would be wrong and he would therefore veto any such bill. His statement suggests that he's for timetables, just not public ones.

I'm posting a comment as a reaction to the other comments instead of the article. I first thought that these must be comments posted by the left-wing democrats because of all the name calling. I don't often see that quality in conservatives. The disdain that so-called "true" conservatives have for McCain and Huckabee continues to astonish me. I understand that McCain has not always voted with the Republicans on the issues and that his principles are more pragmatist than hardliner, and that Huckabee's affinity for every day people has some conservatives afraid that he'll play Robin Hood and steal from the rich to give to the poor, but in my opinion, these are two strengths of two strong men. McCain doesn't always vote down party lines and doesn't always agree with the establishment. Neither do I. Huckabee does care about the little guy. The vast majority of Americans are little guys (despite the fact that most of that majority don't like to think of themselves that way).

But what amazes most me about the "true conservatives" is the hypocrisy with which they boast of Mitt Romney and to a lesser extent, Rudy Guilani (although Rudy's absence and now withdrawal from the race has saved them some of my slings and arrows here). He has molded his policies to fit whatever state he's in at the time - more left-wing and big government as Governor of Massachusetts, and now running right as a national candidate. It goes beyond pandering to a constant re-invention in a way that stinks of John Kerry. He appears so plastic and molded into the Manchurian candidate that he literally frightens me. If he is so easily molded to fit the bill for "true conservatives," then what cookie cutter will take hold of him next?

In the April 3 interview transcript above Romney plainly stated that he supports timetables for exiting Iraq. Romney got so worked up about it and loudly exclaimed he never supported timetables, yet he indeed did, right there in black and white.
Why is McCain being accused of lying when it is Romney that is doing so?