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Race4008’s Jen Rubin asked Senator John McCain about Mitt Romney’s statement about Osama Bin Laden. McCain attributed his position to "naivete."
Recall the quote:
[Romney] said the country would be safer by only "a small percentage" and would not see "a very insignificant increase in safety" if al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught because another terrorist [...]

The day after Reuters reports that Osama Bin Laden has returned to operational control of al Qaeda, Mitt Romney says that we don’t need to get Bin Laden. Huh? Byron York gets it right, "Perhaps Romney should watch the tape of the planes hitting the towers again." This highlights how shallow Romney’s national security experience [...]

Doesn’t MoveOn cutting an ad attacking John McCain help him? I think that Michael Goldfarb nailed it:

As the Hotline points out, "The more liberals bash McCain, the more comfortable conservatives tend to get." Truer words were never written. The idea that this ad could do any damage to McCain in a primary is absurd. Republicans [...]

Today Jack Murtha called for a draft again. Last weekend in New Hampshire, John McCain gave an articulate defense of the all volunteer force and service, but pointed out the insanity of a draft: There is a bunch more video in there on the military, service, and similar issues. Just pimping my [...]

Jonah Goldberg has a great article at NRO about how Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani are two different strategies for handling coming from a liberal, northeastern state. Romney’s strategy is basically to change his position on every issue in sight to come in line with the conservative base. Goldberg doesn’t totally buy it, and regularly [...]

A couple of days I wrote on the results of the Diageo/Hotline poll. Most people have focused on the Presidential results. BlogPI has written about McCain’s credibility on security with Republicans. I started looking at how GOPers prioritize issues, and thought it had some interesting presidential implications. So here’s the data:

Issue
%
Issue
%

Oppose Iraq
19
Fear
6

Support Iraq
18
Illegal Immigration
6

Terrorism
10
Religious and [...]

Update: Brownback had previously taken a position and this blog suggests that Romney is talking about 20k troops.
Update II: Silence from Giuliani.
So far, the debate on the relationship between the Iraq and the 2008 Presidential has focused on the Democrats running from the war and the effect on John McCain’s candidacy. I wrote on both [...]

In recent weeks, there has been interminable talk about how John McCain’s Presidential hopes could be over because of his position on Iraq. While I see that McCain’s position on Iraq could be a threat to his candidacy, I think that the Democrats are between a rock and a hard place.
President Bush is clearly telegraphing [...]