10 More Years

Bill Pascoe isn’t known for being a part of the reality based commmunity:

“Finally: Has anyone noticed that the quote the Foster campaign constantly uses — ‘I’ve supported the President on almost everything’ — comes from a newspaper article that’s more than FOUR YEARS OLD? That’s more than half the length of time George Bush has been in the White House! Has anyone noticed that the very title of the article cited — ‘GOP Senate rivals back away from Bush’ — has been deliberately hidden by Mr. Foster? Has Mr. Foster not read any newspapers between January 2004 and today? Has he not been made aware of the many instances in which Jim Oberweis has publicly disagreed with the President since then — particularly, for example, on the twin issues of immigration reform and management of the Iraq war?

The problem here is that immigration he disagreed with Bush in 2002 and, in fact, that’s why he was frozen out by Karl Rove.  The same for re-importation of drugs. So that was even before the interview.  And in terms of the Iraq war, this ‘disagreement’ with Bush is disingenuous.  Supposedly he disagrees with something that Bush did, but he agreed with Bush at the time:

When asked about Bush’s temporary tax cuts, for example, all seven Republicans who answered the survey said they would make them permanent, while the six Democrats who answered said they would rescind the cuts for the wealthy but keep them for the middle class. Similarly, when asked to comment on Bush’s handling of the Iraq war, the Republican candidates were unanimous in their praise of him, and the Democrats were united in their criticism.  

Post-Dipatch March 7, 2004

Oberweis’ argument in the below video indicates he disagrees with decisions after the initial invasion, but he was wholeheartedly in favor of the President’s policy while the President was implementing those policies.  That’s not criticism of the President, that’s rewriting history.

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So the only thing that Oberweis seems to have changed since the 2004 quote is that he finds supporting the Iraq War a liability.  He doesn’t want to change from Bush’s policy, he just wants to criticize Bush decisions that he supported at the time.

Writing a manifesto about how bad your opponent is might only be weird for Pascoe, but he’s not only weird, but entirely wrong about his own candidate.