Domestic Policy views largely a Mystery

The London Telegraph is reporting that General David Petraeus has a speaking engagement set for March 24, in of all places, the First in the Nation Primary State of New Hampshire.

From the Telegraph, March 19:

The shrewd and articulate military commander, credited with turning around the Iraq war, will deliver a speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire next week, a traditional staging post in the state where the first presidential primaries are held every four years. Each of the last eight presidents has spoken at the college on their way to victory.

Aged 57, Gen Petraeus was catapulted to fame when then President George W Bush sent him to Baghdad in early 2007 to carry out the "surge" strategy that helped rescue Iraq from all-out civil war.

He drew up the counter-insurgency strategy that helped transform that conflict and is now being deployed with some encouraging early signs in Afghanistan.

A Northeastern Scott Brown Republican?

The General has given very few hints as to his political leanings over the years; saying only that we ought to "look at" revising the gays in the Military issue, and most recently taking a balanced approach on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict in the Middle East.

The Telegraph goes on to suggest that Petraeus may lean more towards the Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe wing of the GOP.

He has also described himself as a "Rockefeller Republican" – a pro-business, socially liberal New Englander...

But there are other indications that he might be more closely identified as a Scott Brown Republican. Also a northeasterner, Brown is fiercely Pro-Military and a 30-year officer in the US Army.

HotAir.com regular contributor Dafydd ab Hugh theorizes:

Petraeus has an intensely American view of life, duty, and the world... He comes from a conservative section of New York State, Orange County.