Posted on 10/05/2010 12:19:18 PM PDT by neverdem
Republican Connecticut Senate nominee Linda McMahon's campaign released a new ad today that slams Democratic opponent Richard Blumenthal for misrepresenting his military service during the Vietnam War.
The ad seeks to revive doubts about the Connecticut attorney general's credibility that have festered since the New York Times revealed in May that Blumenthal claimed repeatedly that he served in Vietnam when he actually received five deferments and served stateside in the Marine Reserve.
The ad comes hours before the candidates are slated to meet in their first debate at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford. Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier will moderate the debate, which begins at 7 p.m Eastern.
The ad begins with an announcer asking, "Would you lie about serving in a war?" over a picture of a soldier and sounds of gunfire. A clip of Blumenthal follows, in which he says: "We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam."
The announcer charges that "Dick Blumenthal lied again and again," and ends the ad by asking, "If he lied about Vietnam, what else is he lying about?"
Blumenthal, who earlier this year appeared poised to coast into retiring Sen. Chris Dodd's seat, has seen the big-spending former WWE CEO close to within single digits of him in recent polls. A recent poll from Quinnipiac University showed Blumenthal leading McMahon by just three points, and the latest poll from Rasmussen Reports shows his lead dwindling to five points. However, a Public Policy Polling survey released Monday shows him ahead by 12 percent. He holds a 6.7 point lead in the RCP Average...
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Kick the crap out of the weasel ping!
That’s the way to do it and tell anyone in the media who whines about it to go pound sand! Even if you lose, you at least have gotten the truth out about the scum. It’s time for the GOP to take the gloves off. DemocRATs have no problem, throwing slime while hiding their hands and saying “I didn’t throw it.”
That issue is fair game. It is MUCH more relevant than witchcraft, masterbation, and a whole long list of stupid things the democrats are jumping on right now. Smackdown!
and beat him more ater she wins!!!!!
Precisely. This lying weasel deserves everything thrown at him.
Last I read she was significantly behind. Does she have a chance to win that seat?
Linda is involved in wrestling. She’ll pound her way into the seat.
There. Fixed it.
Keep at him, Linda.
This is irrelevant. What really matters is whether Christine O’Donnel was a witch or why Meg Whitman was not able to read her maid’s mind/use waterboarding to discover that said maid was an illegal alien or Sharron Angle’s desire to actually be a conservative in the Republican Party (according to tapes that were made illegally). We need to know this stuff and not focus on poor Sidney Blumenthal’s honorable service in Vietnam which never happened. So please, lets move on.
You should have said that Sidney Blumenthal's service in Vietnam was not dishonorable.
You should have said that Sidney Blumenthal's service in Vietnam was not dishonorable.
One of the TV lefties trying to protect Blumie called the Vietnam War “old news”, as though lying about your service was irrelevant.
How long before the first usage of the term “swift boat” takes place in the CT race?
That's what the mainstream media is for.
I would say around Tuesday, October 05, 2010 4:09:39 PM by Personal Responsibility
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