Vets get in races to fight GOP

The Denver Post ^ | 12/28/2005 | Jim Hughes

[steveyp]

This is all a ploy by Rove. The Democrats are grasping at National Security straws, pulling in veterans to run campaigns which will turn on local issues. Looks like the Republicans will win either way.

Silly Democrats.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Hillary Soros minions trying to overcome the impossible obstacle of getting military support in 2008.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Army and Air Force officers have been by far on the cutting edge of liberal policies inside the military, and the Army and Air Force officers who enter politics post-service, are disproportionally Democratic compared to their bretheren with whom they served.

You are as full of $hit as a Christmas Goose.... it has little to do with what branch of the military you served in, but rather a host of other issues such as if you are from the NE...better chance of being a RAT..

[sargunner]

"Not wanting to get into an inter-service rivalry debate, it's clear that the Naval services - especially the Marines, hold truer to traditional values and conservative politics (although the Marines are not immune to post-service wailing, as Scott Ritter comes to mind)."

Kennedy,LBJ,Carter,Kerry,Glenn...
I guess I see your point(?).

[BigSkyFreeper]

perhaps this is a return to an older definition of democrat? one where democrat is not synonymous with socialist?

Doubt it. If you really want to know the real definition of an "Old dog Democrat", take a look at Zell Miller, also a combat veteran.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Democrats hate the military. This is just plastic banana phoniness. Democrats serve this country better by being permanently seated at the table of power as the minority.

In times of national security and defense, the left has been an complete and utter failure in the last 40 years.

They have LBJ, Carter and Clinton to look up to as role models of complete failure.

[imskylark]

"Would like a position statement from each of these folks regarding the War in Iraq....NOW!"

The ones I've heard stated that the Iraq war is wrong and the President lied. Dem talking points all the way.

[roamincadillac]

Exactly. Kerry and Murtha are living proof. Most members of the Bush Admin. don't have any combat experience but they're doing a heck of a better job at protecting this country and, ultimately all the weak kneed "allies" around the world who don't have the stones to protect their own countries from terrorism than "combat veterans" Gore or Kerry would have done. Either one would have been a disaster for this country, not to mention thay're both a disgrace to the uniform, as I'm sure all of these left wing political wannabes are going to prove to be.

[roamincadillac]

Democrat has always been synonymous with socialist. FDR is one example. Adolph Hitler is another.

[roamincadillac]

Republicans will win either way and still vote with the left, as we've seen for the last five years especially from the most famous vet/POW of them all, McCain.

[Paul Ross]

"Do we understand military and foreign affairs? You bet," Fawcett said. "Most of us have been to the point where you get a direct dose of military and foreign affairs, mostly in the category of small-caliber weapons.

Oh, just like John Kerry, eh? Who had the great idea of arming our troops only with these:

Zell Miller's Spitballs Increasingly Likely
By Sher Zieve
MichNews.com
Dec 5, 2005

As the leftist Democrat leaders continue their drumbeat and mantra of “Pull out the troops—pull out the troops”, they are joined by their mainstream media and ACLU. Unlike the non-covert-CIA-agent Valerie Plame scenario, the mainstream press continues to report on actual covert CIA information—putting American citizens in jeopardy—and they get away with it. The ACLU is, again, using the court system to undermine the country. It has now filed a lawsuit against the CIA for interrogating terrorists out of country—in time of war.

Despite the fact that pulling our troops out of Iraq now would cause chaos in that country and place the United States at greater risk, the Democrats persist in their madness—with increasing help from their above-mentioned leftist friends. Although new schools have been built in Iraq (attended by both boys and girls), trained Iraqi police and military personnel are being turned out as quickly as humanly possible, the Kurdish area of the country is stable and humming economically (to the point that coalition troops often take R&R there), women’s rights are increasing in the country and much—much more, the Left continues to ignore any progress made. It suits their agenda to only report negative news regarding Iraq.

The Left also perseveres in its efforts to weaken the US with any and all ways possible. As the leftist ACLU continues to purport its “human rights” issues, it has become inordinately evident that those rights pertain only to the terrorists and other enemies of our country. If these rights are attempted to be attributed to US Christians or any US citizens who want our country to succeed—or even to remain as a sovereign country—the ACLU is either against or ignores them.

Note: The ACLU recently turned down $1.5M from two of its largest contributors—the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation. The reason? Language added to both of these foundation charters were phrases stating that no organization can receive funding if it either “promotes violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the destruction of any state” or “directly or indirectly engages in, promotes, or supports other organizations or individuals who engage in or promote terrorist activity.” These are the phraseologies to which the ACLU objected. If the ACLU’s mission was not clear before—there should be no further doubt.

Leftist Democrats who voted for no immediate withdrawal from Iraq are now verbally pounding the American people that we do so. As an example, House Minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi voted against the immediate withdrawal (and encouraged others to do so) but, now says we should immediately withdraw. Even failed presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry has chimed in and stepped up his rhetoric, as he said on Sunday’s Face the Nation that if the upcoming elections in Iraq are successful we should immediately withdraw 20,000 troops. Kerry also said that US troops are going door to door terrorizing Iraqi citizens! This is yet another indication of the Democrat Left making insane comments and siding with the enemy. For Mr. Kerry, of course, this is nothing new. He said much the same things about US soldiers in Viet Nam. That’s why the Communists love this guy! Kerry further outlined his cut-and-run policy by reiterating his comment “success begins with withdrawal.” Note: President Bush has already said repeatedly that ‘as the Iraqis step up, US troops will step down.’ But, when it occurs, Kerry wants to ensure that there’s a possibility he may gain some ‘credit for it’.

As the leftist Dems and their comrades continue to work toward emasculating the US military and the USA, in general, we may soon be in the position of having nothing with which to defend ourselves. The enemies from within our country are proving to be as deadly as those from without. The stark and unequivocal fact is that if we don’t vote these people out of power, we won’t have a country left to defend. Then, Senator Zell Miller’s prophetic words, at the 2004 GOP Convention, concerning candidate John Kerry, may come true for all of us: “This is the man who wants to be the Commander in Chief of our U.S. Armed Forces? U.S. forces armed with what? Spitballs?” This is the promise of and from the Left.

Copyright by Sher Zieve

[Jack Ian]

Paul Hackett is a trial lawyer and a marine second. the reason he lost ot Jean Schmidt and will lose the primary to Sherrod the liberal Brown.

[Jack Ian]

Right. If this running VETS as Democrats with no political experience did not work for a General like Wesley Clark, then why would it work for lightweight Junior officers like Hackett and Tammy Duckworth.

[LucyJo]

Crafty move sending a veteran against Tancredo

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They sent one against Bush too. (grin)

[Criminal Number 18F]

This is wonderful for the Republicans. The more the Dems make national security the issue, the more they remind the voters that they have not been trustworthy on that issue since 1965.

I also love the "veterans" that they are finding. A guy who spent ten years in the Navy as a lawyer and has since headed a liberal pressure group. Audie Murphy he ain't.

A credible defense policy takes more than a DD214. Assuming, of course, that it's a real 214 and not a pencil-whipped one like John F. Kerry's. (We're still waiting for the public release of his records... that are supposed to prove his band-aid Purple Hearts were anything but self-awarded fraud.)

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Servant of the 9]

Vets get in races to fight GOP

Probably mostly the snooty ones that treat cats only.

So9