It was our best argument against McCain. It was an ad that was making the Republicans reel. You saw it here. It's the DNC's biggest gun yet against McCain - the 100 years ad in which John McCain says he's fine with us staying in Iraq for another century. The Republicans have been demanding that TV stations not air the ad. They're absolutely freaking out over it.
And now Hillary just killed it for us.
You see, three years ago, while having one of her "I love John McCain" schmooze fests, Hillary let out the whopper that she agrees with John McCain on Iraq, adding that it's fine with her if we stay there for another 50 years. Sure, she didn't say 100 years, she only said 50. but the point is made. Were Hillary to become our nominee, we'd no longer be able to use Iraq as an issue against John McCain because Hillary agrees with John McCain, and worse, she used his same language - the language we're using in our top ad against John McCain. (And actually, even when Obama is finally anointed, we're still going to have to face charges that McCain's position on Iraq is no different than Hillary's.) Here's what Hillary had to say:
"Senator McCain made the point earlier today, which I agree with, and that is, it's not so much a question of time when it comes to American military presence for the average American; I include myself in this. But it is a question of casualties," said Clinton. "We don't want to see our young men and women dying and suffering these grievous injuries that so many of them have. We've been in South Korea for 50-plus years. We've been in Europe for 50-plus. We're still in Okinawa with respect to protection there coming out of World War II."
So once again, Hillary's attempt to pretend she's a Republican has shot us in the ass. Then again, no one could have predicted that Hillary's refusal to admit defeat, her insistence on throwing every Democratic issue and constituency under the campaign bus, would turn around and hurt our chances in November. Oh wait a minute. Yes we did. Still think we should let this go until June? Seriously, does anyone in this party want to win any more?
PS We also can't hit McCain on his ridiculous gas-tax-holiday idea since Hillary is for it too. Nice.
