Comments on: McCain, Putin, and why experience matters http://sorendayton.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: eyeon08.com » The closing argument: Experience versus management http://sorendayton.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-831 eyeon08.com » The closing argument: Experience versus management Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:27:04 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/#comment-831 [...] Seemingly a contrast between book-smarts and street-smarts. McCain knows the actors (thus his thoughts about Putin, which President Bush seems to have gotten wrong and McCain right) and operates from that position. One gets to argue from data though. How have people argued in the past from the input of experts? Ronald Reagan, of course, rejected the experts on "tear[ing] down that wall" and the SALT Treaty. He even created a new intelligence agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency because he wasn’t satisfied with the experts at the CIA. [...] [...] Seemingly a contrast between book-smarts and street-smarts. McCain knows the actors (thus his thoughts about Putin, which President Bush seems to have gotten wrong and McCain right) and operates from that position. One gets to argue from data though. How have people argued in the past from the input of experts? Ronald Reagan, of course, rejected the experts on "tear[ing] down that wall" and the SALT Treaty. He even created a new intelligence agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency because he wasn’t satisfied with the experts at the CIA. [...]

]]> By: NRO organizes conference call to defend questionable decision to endorse Romney—eyeon08.com reports that they received not one supportive question, and no one spoke in favor of the endorsement « who is willard milton romney? http://sorendayton.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-830 NRO organizes conference call to defend questionable decision to endorse Romney—eyeon08.com reports that they received not one supportive question, and no one spoke in favor of the endorsement « who is willard milton romney? Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:10:21 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/#comment-830 [...] December 20, 2007 in 2008, GOP, argument, campaign communications, campaign communiques, campaign literature, conservatism, election 2008, gaffs and pratfalls, incompetence, media, mitt romney, republicans, rhetoric, stupidity, the dark soul of Mitt Romney, triumph of unreasonTags: conference calls from hell, eyeon08.com, foreign policy, formerly conservative NRO, national review online, security, Sen. John McCain, stupidity “[The issue of foreign policy, which the NRO ignored in their rationale for endorsing Romney] shines an important light on National Review’s endorsement of Mitt Romney, which I discussed previously,” writes the Coptic Eye of eyeon08.com in a post titled McCain, Putin, and why experience matters They had a conference call today to defend it. I didn’t hear a single supportive question, and no one spoke up in favor of their endorsement. Ari Richter of the Concord Monitor asked why so little discussion of foreign policy twice. The first time, Rich Lowry responded that all the candidates were pretty similar. They shared the same views, so the only differences are execution. [...] [...] December 20, 2007 in 2008, GOP, argument, campaign communications, campaign communiques, campaign literature, conservatism, election 2008, gaffs and pratfalls, incompetence, media, mitt romney, republicans, rhetoric, stupidity, the dark soul of Mitt Romney, triumph of unreasonTags: conference calls from hell, eyeon08.com, foreign policy, formerly conservative NRO, national review online, security, Sen. John McCain, stupidity “[The issue of foreign policy, which the NRO ignored in their rationale for endorsing Romney] shines an important light on National Review’s endorsement of Mitt Romney, which I discussed previously,” writes the Coptic Eye of eyeon08.com in a post titled McCain, Putin, and why experience matters They had a conference call today to defend it. I didn’t hear a single supportive question, and no one spoke up in favor of their endorsement. Ari Richter of the Concord Monitor asked why so little discussion of foreign policy twice. The first time, Rich Lowry responded that all the candidates were pretty similar. They shared the same views, so the only differences are execution. [...]

]]> By: sampo http://sorendayton.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-829 sampo Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:15:00 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/#comment-829 ok, my rant is not done yet. this just shows how immigration pales in comparison to the foreign threats this country faces. being a tough neocon isn't enough. being smart is what matters. and what the heck is up with that dopey smirk on bush's face. doesn't bush know he owes his entire second term to mccain? ok, my rant is not done yet. this just shows how immigration pales in comparison to the foreign threats this country faces. being a tough neocon isn’t enough. being smart is what matters.

and what the heck is up with that dopey smirk on bush’s face. doesn’t bush know he owes his entire second term to mccain?

]]> By: sampo http://sorendayton.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-828 sampo Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:03:36 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/12/19/mccain-putin-and-why-experience-matters/#comment-828 No one gets it better than McCain. That's why most of the GOP 9-11 chairmen back his campaign and that's why he has more backing from foreign policy experts than probably every other GOP candidate combined. No one gets it better than McCain. That’s why most of the GOP 9-11 chairmen back his campaign and that’s why he has more backing from foreign policy experts than probably every other GOP candidate combined.

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