Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
That is not exactly my reasoning...

I am saying that Bush changing his position to be closer to Obama's does not help Republicans and definitely does not help McCain.

Obama can point to the shift and say, "See, I was right all along and now Bush has FINALLY caught up to my thinking. Hopefully McCain will change his position to be more like mine as well." So, it's not that doing what's positive for the country is not positive for the Republicans --- it's that changing course to do the right thing highlights the fact that you were wrong before and your opponent was right. It's one of the reasons that politics sucks.

We'll see how it works out.
So why is it when Obama does something like this.. like let's say adopting the idea of the "surge" for himself.. that it's a positive thing, but when a republican adopts an idea from the left it is seeing as being a negative impact. I truely hope Obama is smarter than to start pointing fingers suggesting that he was right; because there are countless issues Republicans can point back at Obama if they want to play that game.

Your statement doesn't make sense. You said so yourself "what's good for the country". Which it is a popular view of what is good for the country. Originally McCain didn't give a timetable for withdrawal and now he's given a semi quasi date for withdrawal.

IT is obvious that republicans are shifting gears to head more towards the center just like Obama is. They are trying to gather the vote base who have not decided and are just fluttering about trying to make up their minds.

Again this is simply a political move aimed to draw more of the undecided votes to the republican base. After all, when the majority of Americans have expressed their discontent with the Iraq situation.. who is going to vote for a candidate whose party just threw the nation into another war.

This is neither positive or negative for Obama. This is simply republicans trying to tide things over until the election year is done.