Dems Clamoring to Tie McCain to Bush (?)

Cross-Posting FROM Gribbit’s WordThis morning as the President was waiting to greet John McCain at the White House for a lunch engagement, John Scott of Fox News Channel uttered the comment that Dems would love to tie McCain to Bush’s policies in the months before the election. We may even see the pictures of Bush greeting McCain in campaign ads. That may be true but it deserves a little context and it is our job to remind people of that context.

Today’s lunch and the pictures that accompany it is about the President handing the “keys” of the Party over to the GOP Nominee. It isn’t about past policy because we all know the tension that has existed between the two men in the past. There are differences between Bush and McCain that are obvious.

The first is spending. There is no way John McCain would allow the earmark spending to go unchallenged. Especially if his own Party has the majority. Bush did and that led to the change in majority in 2006. Economic Conservatives (and Conservatives in general) blame Bush for the loss of the majority.

The next difference is Guantanamo. McCain has advocated the end of the detention of foreign terrorists in Cuba. Bush says keeping it open is important to the prosecution of the War on Terrorism.

The next difference is water-boarding. McCain understandably is against ANY forced interrogation methods. Water-boarding works. Three terrorists have been water-boarded by the US in our history. Thousands of US troops have been water-boarded by the US. We do this to prepare our troops for the fact that everybody has a breaking point. Water-boarding is not harmful. No harm comes to the individual. And it works as evident by the fact that those three terrorists broke quickly. Less than 5 minutes total has been spend by this country water-boarding terrorists in our entire history. Three terrorists, 5 minutes, and terrorist attacks have been averted. Bush supports these methods, McCain doesn’t.

In the 2000 Primary Bush and McCain were at each other’s throats.

In 2003 McCain thought more troops should have been used to invade Iraq.

The only ties that are concrete are the troop surge and illegal immigration. Both support both. Thank GOD for Conservative bloggers and talk radio for shooting the Amnesty Bill down and Gen. Petraus for his advocacy of a troop surge.

Clamber as they may, we have a job like we did during the Amnesty debate to make sure the truth is known. The truth is not always in the public domain as stated by the advocates of a particular issue or candidate. It is bloggers and talk radio hosts who have the burden for exposing the underlying truth.

Time to go to work.

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