Gergen on CNBC....

[berner59]

Wow, I've never seen him so angry about this Iraq mess... he said in a VERY angry tone "The people who got us into this better well get us out of it and I don't think anyone knows how to do that!!"

If so many poor soldiers weren't being sitting ducks, I'd be happy about the mess Bush is in...but right now, they need to find a way to protect our kids over there!!!

And Bush is seen smiling and laughing as he answers questions about it today...SICKENING!!!!

[Maat]

1. I'm not as up-to-date as most of you...but isn't Gergen a rightie?

[WillyBrandt]

2. I think he's center-right--all the better a sign, then.

[Avalux]

3. He's a conservative republican

not a neocon like the idiots in power.

[Prodemsouth]

23. LOL, thanks so much I needed that!!!

n/t

[Eric J in MN]

4. Gergen was in the Reagan administration and the Clinton administration nt

nt

[berner59]

8. He's pretty level headed...

as repubs go, so when I see him criticizing and in this case, out and out angry over Bush, I really take notice...

[BillZBubb]

6. Yep, Gergen is right wing, but he's old school Repug

He even worked for Clinton for a while. He's not a wacko right winger, more the traditional conservative Republican. No doubt there is much he doesn't like about the Shrub mis-administration.

[Zeke]

5. Interesting...

Gergen is a GOP with a brain, a rare breed.

What he says speaks volumes for many other centrist REpuke voters, voters who Bush is gonna lose if these Iraq shadows remain...

[David Dunham]

7. Iraq will remain a bad issue for Bush throughout the year.

[Kadie]

9. NO, they don't know how to get us out of it

They didn't think this far ahead, they just wanted to go in and bomb Saddam, all else and everyone else be damned. Today our kids are dying and bushie is on his way to the ranch to play in the brush.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. I think he's a RINO............

He puts country and common sense above party affiliation.

[lectrobyte]

17. stoopid newbie question: what's a "RINO" ? Thanks <nt>

[Raenelle]

19. Republican in name only

and so a DINO is a Dem in name only, like Zell Miller

and, this is my addition, a WINO is a Whig in name only like John Tyler, VP who succeeded William Henry Harrison when he died shortly after his inauguration.

[pacifictiger]

11. Gergen has impressed me

as having a pretty good brain and has struck me as being pretty middle of the road as far as political opinion. He has that ability to point out good and bad points of any president in a common sense sort of way. I do remember him saying early on in the Bush administration that he felt bush was remarkably incurious for a president and time would tell whether that would be a hindrance to him.

[BootinUp]

12. What show was he on please?

I would like to get the transcript later... :)

[berner59]

13. It was the nightly news just on in the east...

Don't know the anchor guy...sorry...

It was CNBC, I'll change the headline...

[Raenelle]

21. The anchor is John Siegenthaler. His dad worked for RFK.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

14. He's anti-right wing, a moderate old style Republican.

[KAZ]

15. What I used to be. Seems so long ago. n/t

You live, you learn.

[berner59]

16. sorry - deleted post...

[chaska]

18. hjkfr

[LTR]

20. Irony

Clinton was surrounded with backstabbers like Stephanopolis and Morris, and the one guy who seems most straightforward is a Repug.

[terisel]

22. I seem to remember Gergen writing euphorically about Bush

after the selection.

[Catherine Vincent]

24. I heard Gergen pissed off Barbara Bush!

So he's A-ok in my book!

[DeepModem Mom]

25. I hope we'll start to hear from other Republicans --

[pacifictiger]

26. Gergen

has a website with a link to articles he's written
http://www.davidgergen.com/