Webb: McCain Should 'Calm Down' on Using Military Service

briefingroom.thehill.com ^ | July 1, 2008 | Walter Alarkon

[PghBaldy]

Yep. It comments on smears that McCain is nuts.

[MaestroLC]

Ah yes...Jim Webb, that paragon of virtue:

1. Webb & Military Support (The truth about his bogus 'military' poll)

2. Democratic Response of Senator Jim Webb To the President’s State of the Union Address (June 2007: "The majority of the nation no longer supports the way this war is being fought; nor does the majority of our military.")

3. Jim Webb Threatens to 'Slug' President Bush (November 2006:"Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t.”)

4. Did Webb resign as Reagan’s SecNav to keep from getting fired?

5. Jim Webb imagines man-boy love in his novels (via Drudge October 2006)

[carcraft]

Is what is really pis*ing me off is that Obama did not defend the patriotism of Petraous, against moveon.org, the patriotism of the marines at Haditha from Murtha, or our troops against dick Durban calling them nazies. Webb didn't tell move on, Durban or Murtha to calm down. What a bunch of jerks.

[weegee]

Webb weighed in on the debate over retired Gen. Wesley Clark's remark that "riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down" isn't "a qualification to be president."

Same story every election it seems:

Did Jack Murtha Lie for His Purple Hearts? (FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, November 27, 2006)

But leftists did not exhibit those scruples when their mainstream media associates attacked the military service of President George H.W. Bush, 1996 Republican presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole, Arizona Senator John McCain, and President George W. Bush. As Jim Geraghty of the National Review has noted, during the 1988 presidential campaign, the New York Post ran a front-page article on their August 12th issue – the first day of the 1988 GOP convention – airing accusations that the senior Bush may have jumped from his plane too quickly when it was shot down over the Pacific in World War II, possibly costing his plane’s two crewman their lives. In 1992, it was none other than Bill Clinton’s good friend and ally, Sidney Blumenthal, who revived these accusations in the October 12th edition of the New Republic that year.

During the 1996 campaign, Robert Ellis attacked Bob Dole’s military record in the pages of The Nation, blaming Dole for inflicting his own wounds for his first Purple Heart, and dismissing the heroism under fire that caused his permanent injuries. The Left also sat quiet as syndicated columnist Gary Trudeau mocked Dole’s war wounds on ABC’s Prime Time Live.

John McCain – the current frontrunner for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination – is still the target of attacks from the Left. Just this month leftist “intelligence expert” and former National Security Agency analyst Wayne Madsen posted an article on his website (last entry on the page) claiming that McCain was personally responsible for devastating fire on the USS Forrestal in July 1967 that killed 134 personnel on board the ship. However, a video of the event shows that the Zuni missile that misfired came from an F-4 Phantom on the other side of the deck from McCain’s A-4 Skyhawk , causing the initial explosion that forced McCain to jump from his plane to escape. But leftists never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory.

And in the 2004 presidential election, the Left and its mainstream media allies had to manufacture evidence to attack President George W. Bush’s military service in the notorious Rathergate scandal. Notwithstanding the disgrace for CBS and Dan Rather for so willingly falling for clearly manufactured documents, comments about Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard are still as common amongst the Left as Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers in the White House Press Corps parking lot.

[Political Junkie Too]

So did Max Cleland. Only Democrats can use their war record because it's so rare. Republicans can't use their war record because it distinguishes them and that can't be allowed.

-PJ

[Sal]

Yes, it did already start with that drooling fool on Rush, but she couldn't even articulate her babbling, shifting, idiotic fog of a not quite position. She kept saying we're suffering, the American people are all suffering.

So suffer in silence you @#$$%^&*$%--especially since you have nothing to say and are taking forevvvverrr to say it.

I hate it when he wastes my time on crap like that, but OTOH I like for dopes like her to be the voice of the Rats. OK, she was pretending not to take a side, but only one side absolutely MUST remove this topic from discussion...

[Daveinyork]

The last people one should take free advice from is one’s adversaries.

[Miss Didi]

You summed up that idiot caller perfectly, Sal. ;)

[FrankR]

OK, but only if O’Hussein will calm down about being an American....

[Miss Didi]

I heard on Fox that in Wonder Boy's great patriotic speech yesterday he condemned Moveon.org yet he voted against it in the Senate. But then the messiah is so deep we are told.

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

Webb need to go back and wrap himself in his “Slave Flag”

[KevinDavis]

Didn’t Reagan fire him???

[Thomas W.]

That photo of Webb holding up his son’s boots is appalling.

He looks utterly satanic, the most corrupt, evil stereotype of a politician I’ve ever seen.

Luckily, this latest Dem idiocy is backfiring like a jalopy in a Laurel and Hardy film.

All it does is open the door for McCain to describe in detail what was done to him in the service of his country, and what his two sons are doing today.

I’m not a Hannity fan, but to quote him, “Let not your heart be troubled.”

McCain will be the next president, and then we’ll all rise up and biff him away from amnesty and cap and trade.

Then maybe we can relax for a while. It’s been a stressful seven years, hasn’t it?

[CharlesWayneCT]

And meanwhile, I bet some of his side are afraid Obama would go ballistic if he was really confronted by a racist attack.

So they have been non-stop 24 hours a day complaining about “racist attacks”, in an attempt to make it so “onerous” that if it happens, it will be OK that Obama goes ballistic.

[fightinJAG]

It’s okay to pretend you served in Viet Nam, just like it’s okay to pretend you go to church (with a big fat Bible in your hand). All of that is okay with Libs, so long as it’s just pretend.

But *actually* serve in Viet Nam, just like *actually* expressing your religious belief, is a big no-no.

[fightinJAG]

Webb is not only a phony, he’s a nutcase.

Yeah, let’s bring back some of his own ads and ask him to “calm down.”

I can only hope that Webb is on the short list for Obambi VP. If he were on the ticket, so much garbage would come out about him that maybe Virginians would actually wake up and toss him next time around.

[fightinJAG]

And Webb exploits his son’s service, too, IIRC.

Ew, he’s just creepy.

[fightinJAG]

I find your analysis compelling.

[Condor51]

Hey everyone. Better not be too critical of Webb.
He'll pull his gat and cap yer a__.

[fightinJAG]

Didn’t Webb hit Sen. Allen two years ago for not serving??

Personally, I would like to see George Allen on national television tonight delivering a whupping like only he can to this little cretin.