As a lifelong Santa Cruzan, I have to say it is unfair and inaccurate to align Leon Panetta’s politics with those Commies that were mentioned. I have known those Marxist politicians all my life and despise them, because they ruined Santa Cruz.
I have met Panetta many times and he is no Commie. He was always kind of hawkish on defense and conservative on budget issues from what I remember.
Also, Panetta got his education at a Jesuit university and then worked for Richard Nixon. He started his political life as a Republican.
Further, Panetta is from Carmel. Carmel is not Santa Cruz. Clint Eastwood was the Republican mayor of Carmel when Panetta was a congressman.
The fact is for anybody to get elected in that district, you had to go crawling to the Santa Cruz Commies for support.
That doesn’t make him a Commie.
If anybody is a traitorous scumbag, it is my current Congressman, Sam Farr, who is far more left-wing than Panetta ever was.
I only know this. If Obama likes him, there is something wrong with him.
More articles about Panetta are going to come out. Here is one:
Panetta keynoted pro-Soviet group’s conference
Nominee for DoD chief gave address during height of Cold War
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=312429
And the idea that he was Clinton’s chief of staff and worked so closely with those slime balls is also a red flag.
More will come out. It is a matter of time.