That's loyalty for you. 
Posted on 02/13/2006 9:04:41 PM PST by LdSentinal
Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders.
Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada, the same party leaders who he said persuaded him last August to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherrod Brown, a longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent.
Mr. Hackett staged a surprisingly strong Congressional run last year in an overwhelmingly Republican district and gained national prominence for his scathing criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. It was his performance in the Congressional race that led party leaders to recruit him for the Senate race.
But for the last two weeks, he said, state and national Democratic Party leaders have urged him to drop his Senate campaign and again run for Congress.
"This is an extremely disappointing decision that I feel has been forced on me," said Mr. Hackett, whose announcement comes two days before the state's filing deadline for candidates. He said he was outraged to learn that party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to stop giving and said he would not enter the Second District Congressional race.
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He shouldn't be surprised--stabbed in the back by Dems. You'd think veterans would be used to it by now. He deserved better than this--regardless of his political opinions he has earned the right to be treated with respect.
You've served your purpose (unsuccessfully), now step aside.
Too bad he was'nt one of the dems African-American candidates. Yet, i'm totally surprised they would treat a military veteran like this - I thought they were putting their hopes in Vets that don't support the War or Bush.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
Good riddance, Hackett, you scumbag.
"Check this out" ping.
Live and learn my liberal friend...get back on the plantation or else!
"...he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders."
Must have shown signs of attempting escape from the asylum...
Thought they were loading up with vetrans to shed the pussy image.
They stepped in it once again, golly, how can they be so stupid.
Another Hero in the true spirit of John F. Kerry. This country would lose to invading French Boy Scouts if all Veterans were of the same ilk.... Can we find any democrat veterans where the record clearly supports their honorable status as a hero? I know many serve honorably who are democrats but it is "a shame" that the democrat veterans that run for office as heros are not.
The Democrat Plantation refused to accept him... If nothing else, Hackett could do great ahrm to the Democrat Party for the way they treated him
And then some.....
Yep. He should have known that they'd toss his out as soon as he stopped being useful to them.
Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada are now running Ohio politics. I guess Ohioans aren't qualified to pick their own candidates.
James Webb, take note.
That's loyalty for you.
You ain't kidding -- and neither is that little green guy. LOL.
Yer gets one chance matey as a Dumbocrat.. then its the plank fer yer.
Stupid Rat -- lay down with dogs and got fleas.
My eyes are still dry.
May any future candidacy of this man's collapse as decisively as this one did.
Hehehe.
GOOD NEWS PING
Oh--he's done. He didn't just lose--he got ordered to step aside by his own party! And Sherrod Brown isn't a great guy to lose out to. He was from my district when I lived in Ohio. Of course I was too young/apolitical then to pay attention to what he did. But his district is a blue collar, liberal area--he'll have a hard time getting success pan-Ohio, which is almost completely different than the Northeast sliver where Brown rules.
Shocking! This after the Dims bragging about how many military vets they had recruited to run in the 2006 election.
Actually, I'm not surprised by this after all the years of seeing how backstabbing Dims work.
your take on all this?
LOLOL
Oh, no. Sherrod Brown was my congressman until my district was redrawn (properly) about several years ago. Ohio does not need this radical guy as a Senator.
I thought Hackett was the dem's "savior," but the dem's top people slapped him in the back. I see that Hackett is very angry right now being treated that way.
Okay, it's either:
1. He's got dirt in his past;
2. There was a backroom promise made to this sitting Congresscritter;
3. Polls indicate the sheep aren't buying into "Leftist Vets For 'Truth'", or "Iraqi Vets Against The War", or whatever they're calling themselves, and they're jettisoning the whole program - this guy's just the first;
Nice plantation those Dems got going for them, ehhh ?
It's genetic. There is no cure, or hope for that matter.
This is the day the democratic party will die.
I guess he figured it out!
Maybe he can go have a good cry with Cindy.
["This is an extremely disappointing decision that I feel has been forced on me," said Mr. Hackett, whose announcement comes two days before the state's filing deadline for candidates. He said he was outraged to learn that party leaders were calling his donors and asking them to stop giving and said he would not enter the Second District Congressional race.]
The Democratic Party is doing something so underhanded and sneaky to one of it's own loyal members for the sake of short term political gain?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Wait......
I mean, BWA HAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
"This forum seems to be getting bigger and bigger anyways... all we need is a voter registration form with the site registration. Just register "democraticunderground" as a third party..."
If only I could post one of those little smiley guys praying...
Dems--PLEASE don't start a new more liberal party! Oh, please, we would be doomed! Do NOT throw me in that briar patch, pleeeeease!
The Dems don't want someone who is not entrenched in corruption--a decent outsider who is not part of the problem--to run.
All politicians know that one win from an "average Joe" could sink ALL of them.
That's why there are Dems insisting that Cindy Sheehan not run, either.
These bums all know that a revolution is brewing. They are attempting to quell a revolution.
This is all about their power being threatened.
This is quite sick.
I wish Hackett would have told them to stuff it. I'm curious why he didn't. He was running, based on the notion that politics is corrupt and that our pResident lied his way into an unnecessary war. Both Dems and Reps are guilty. Why didn't he stand up to them. He was running against this type of establishment thinking.
Most likely he was threatened.
I can hardly wait for Election Night.
#29 contains a DUmmie thread that you may like.
'You know that bottle of hope I had sitting in a bottle next to my desk for the last several months? It spilled, and stained everything. Looks real crappy now..."
I have been a Democrat all my life. So have my parents and their parents. We have given hundreds of thousands dollars and countless hours of time to the party.
That doesn't read like it comes from someone who've ever SEEN a hundred dollars, let alone donated "hundreds of thousands".
LOL
LOL...that's priceless!
Wow! The Du'ers sound exactly like the Freepers the night the Gang of 14 pulled their compromise!
LOL. The Democrats are done with their useful idiot and have tossed him aside.
Someone should have reminded him what happens when you aren't part of the 'plantation'! Remember Hillary also walked over someone to become NY's Senator.
Sherrod Brown
The 'plantation's' pick...
Born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio, Brown achieved the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Russian studies and later earned master’s degrees in education and public administration from Ohio State University. He served two terms as Ohio’s Secretary of State and four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives.
Brown is married to Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz, who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He is the father of two daughters, Emily, a union organizer for the Service Employees International Union, and Elizabeth, an AmeriCorps graduate and student at Columbia University. Stepdaughter Caitlin is a high school student in Ohio. Stepson Andrew Gard is a doctoral student at Ohio State University.
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