{"id":9688,"date":"2007-01-21T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9688.html"},"modified":"2007-01-21T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T20:16:25","slug":"mccain-cant-even-find-the-goalposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mccain-cant-even-find-the-goalposts\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain can&#8217;t even find the goalposts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9519.html\">suggested<\/a> that Sen. [tag]John McCain[\/tag] (R-Ariz.) is in the process of moving the goalposts when it comes to his favored policy for troop escalation in Iraq. As of today, McCain&#8217;s only consistency is his willingness to be inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at McCain&#8217;s position over the last couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>* Three months ago, McCain we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15446757\/\">should send<\/a> 20,000 more troops to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>* Two weeks ago, McCain said 20,000 more [tag]troops[\/tag] <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/01\/08\/mccain-iraq\/\">aren&#8217;t enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* A day later, McCain said he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9519.html\">wasn&#8217;t sure<\/a> if 20,000 more troops would be enough.<\/p>\n<p>* One week ago, McCain said 20,000 more troops <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/12\/ap\/politics\/mainD8MJRGCO0.shtml\">are enough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* And today, McCain is back to saying 20,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/01\/21\/mccain-small\/\">aren&#8217;t enough<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press, McCain said, &#8220;I would have liked to have seen more&#8221; troops sent to Iraq. He added, &#8220;If it had been up to me,&#8221; more U.S. troops would be on their way into Baghdad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, McCain&#8217;s principal selling points as a candidate are a) his &#8220;expertise&#8221; on military matters; and b) his consistency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently suggested that Sen. [tag]John McCain[\/tag] (R-Ariz.) is in the process of moving the goalposts when it comes to his favored policy for troop escalation in Iraq. As of today, McCain&#8217;s only consistency is his willingness to be inconsistent. Let&#8217;s take a look at McCain&#8217;s position over the last couple of months. * Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}