Romney says NO – he hasn’t supported timetables and says that McCain saying he had was unfair – and draws heavy applause.
McCain makes a good point that he was for the surge the whole time and contrasts it with Romney not weighing in because he was a governor. McCain does have a better record on standing firm on his positions, and the surge does seem to be working.
Now they’re going at it over specific quotes – did Romney say he supported timetables or not? Cooper comes through for us and reads the actual quote – “timetables and milestones”. My interpretation is that he meant timetables for progress. If he didn’t mean that he wouldn’t have added the word milestones. That doesn’t suggest that he meant it as a timetable for getting out. Incidentally, Romney keeps getting applause, with none for McCain so far.
It does seem slightly disturbing that Romney wouldn’t take a position, but I think we’d have to look at what other governors said at the time to ascertain fully.
Ron Paul TEES OFF on the Iraq question, saying that Romney and McCain are having a “silly argument” over technicalities. Republicans shouldn’t be the party of policing the world, the were elected to stop Korea and Vietnam, etc. He ties it in to the crashing dollar nicely as he always does. Most Repulicans won’t, but I think that he makes a lot of sense and did a good job of portraying himself as above the squabbling with a much more sensible policy that actually follows the constitution. He also draws heavy applause from his fanatical supporters as usual.
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