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2012
Let's Have No
More Talk of Romney-Petraeous
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If we're going to play Washington's favorite parlor
game, we might as well ask the inevitable question: Would Petraeus
really run as a Republican? Testifying Tuesday before the Senate Armed
Services Committee, he articulated policy positions on Don't Ask, Don't
Tell and the Bagram detention facility that sounded like planks of the
Democratic, not Republican, platform. That's just the beginning of his
surprisingly liberal politics:
- Says "the time has come" to consider repealing don't
ask, don't tell.
- Opposes sending Guantanamo detainees to the Bagram
facility in Afghanistan.
- Supports closing the prison at Guantanamo.
- Opposes "enhanced interrogation" methods like
waterboarding.
- Condemns Israel's behavior in the Palestinian
conflict as undermining U.S. regional interests.
- Soft on drugs: Has made combating Afghanistan's
massive opium trade a low priority.
- Soft on crime: Supports reconciling with Taliban
leaders and backed Sunni militias in Iraq's Sunni Awakening.
- Worst of all, he's a big-government liberal: [The
Atlantic]
 What? Not
enough? Have you ever seen him in the same room with David
Hackett Souter?
Did you know Petraeus's wife Holly works in the Obama administration as
the
assistant director for service member affairs at the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, the agency founded as a part of the Dodd-Frank Act.
The genesis of the Drudge Report story about being picked by Romney was
an Obama backer who said the
president suggested Petraeus would be Romney's pick— and wasn't joking.
So much for that one. I hope.
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