Damn teabaggers won’t even invade Iran!
I guess when you’re having a hard time in your campaign, and may or may not have any principles at all, anything is game.
Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, D, who is running to succeed appointed Sen. Roland Burris, D, in Barack Obama’s old senate seat, attacked his Republican opponent earlier this week for…opposing an invasion of Iran. From Giannoulias’s website: “Today Mark Kirk (R) took the irresponsible step of saying that he opposes a military option in dealing with Iran. While saying that he believes Iran is in the midst of a “nuclear breakout,” he removed a critical instrument in the U.S. foreign policy toolbox.”
There are a few surprising things here:
1) Giannoulias is ready to INVADE Iran? Look, I’ve been arguing we will need to soon for some time, but I’m just a blogger. We can’t have candidates running around using an invasion of another country we’re not at war with as a realistic issue. Wanna get Iran all fired up and dangerous? This would be one way (electing leaders who campaign on it).
2) Since when are Democrats (or any Democrat not named McLeibermann) for a war effort? Is that you, Zell Miller? Does he represent a contingency that wants to attack Iran that lives in the Left? He must think there is one… or something.
3) Does he realize that this type of argument is the kind that can follow you around for a while? This guy just took a strong stance in favor of a possible war with Iran. Hell, even with my assertion that we have to stop them soon, I want to try all the stuff that doesn’t involve Russia screwing us behind the scenes, China calling in their debts, and our efforts to spend enough on a holy war against the Muslim world (that is where an Iranian war would take us) before we send in the marines.
4) Doesn’t this just show you where the politics of the moment are? Isn’t this an attempt to run to the RIGHT of Kirk? I think that it is, and I think that is endemic of the diseases in the Left right now. Their own members have even tried to pry the conservative mantle from their opponents in the GOP.
Weird stance from a weirder place…
