Posted on 05/14/2010 10:25:42 AM PDT by Starman417
Illogically high expectations about pinpoint accuracy and target discrimination in a fire-fight are the fantasy of armchair-academics and videogame players. Men on the ground know that war is sloppy and rough. Combat is not a noun or a place that you are “in,” but rather a verb, a thing that you “do” to other people. Principally, combat is imposing your will on the enemy by violence of action and the ugly truth is that the process kills all kinds of people: good ones, bad ones, and yes, even our own. When our expectations of success and precision are unrealistic it threatens not only our service men, it emboldens our enemy, and it breaks our will to stand and fight.
-Ilario Pantano, May 8, 2007 in defense of the Haditha Marines
Ilario Pantano recently won the Republican primary and stands a good chance of winning a seat in NC District 7 against Democratic incumbent Mike McIntyre. But apparently Pantano's past has "come back to haunt him". Not, really though...
No, this isn't the case of conservatives attacking Republicans, but Republican sore losers attacking fellow Republicans:
Two unsuccessful Republican candidates in North Carolina have turned their guns on the primary election winner, endangering the party's hopes of defeating longtime Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) in November.GOP voters in the 7th District on May 4 nominated Ilario Pantano, a charismatic Iraq warveteran with a personal story many find compelling and a past encounter with military justice that gives others concern.
Among the latter is Will Breazeale, the second-place finisher and 2008 nominee against McIntyre, who told POLITICO on Wednesday he would do what he can to keep Pantano from winning the seat. He said the third-place finsher, Randy Crow, would join him at a news conference Tuesday in Wilmington, N.C., to discuss their plans.
"We're going to work against him," Breazeale -- also an Iraq veteran -- said. "If the Republicans don't like it, they can kick me out."
Like Charlie Crist, and unlike Bennett's graceful bow out, the primary losers seem motivated more by ego than by ideological policy differences.
Breazeale claims he can't support Pantano's nomination due to good conscience:
Read more at floppingaces.net...
Breazale, who proudly claims to be a military man, needs to be ordered to stand down.
Being a war hero doesn’t always equate to good politics. Kerry.. Murtha . .
Spring cleaning is in progress at the Republican house. Some of the RINO is tough to sweep out.
I’ve always said that Establishment, country-club RINOs like these guys would rather lose than have conservatives win. This is simply one more piece of evidence of that.
and McLame too!
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