Posted on 11/02/2006 3:26:18 PM PST by steve-b
I'm a Christian, a writer, a military parent and a registered Republican.
On all those counts, I was disgusted by an e-mail I just received that's being circulated by campaign supporters of Republican George Allen, who's trying to retain his Senate seat in Virginia.
The message goes like this: "First, it was the Catholic priests, then it was Mark Foley, and now Jim Webb, whose sleazy novels discuss sex between very young teenagers. ... Hmmm, sounds like a perverted pedophile to me! Pass the word that we do not need any more pedophiles in office."Democrat James Webb is a war hero and former Marine, wounded in Vietnam and winner of the Navy Cross. He was writing about class and military issues long before me and has articulated the issue of how the elites have dropped the ball on military service in his classic novel Fields of Fire. By the way, that's a book Tom Wolfe calls "the greatest of the Vietnam novels."...
Mr. Webb also happens to be running against a desperate opponent supported by people who circulated the stupid e-mail, something that reminds me of a 2000 smear campaign aimed at another war hero, John McCain....
My wife and I have reached the tipping point. We plan to go to town hall to dump our Republican voter registration and reregister as independents. I don't care anymore what party someone is in. These days, what I care about is what they're made of.
Wartime demands leaders with character and moral authority. The political party smearing Mr. Webb proves it has neither.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Frank. No one cares what you think.
Oh, what a loser.
Like the whole outing-of-Allen-the-JOOOOOOO bit wasn't sleazy.
Is Frank in Dallas or is he syndicated?
All because of an email??
Oh please
Hey, mister, how about doing what is best for the country for a change. The Liberal Dummyrats want to take our country down the toilet bowl and destroy our freedoms. Vote accordingly.
Oh whatever. Just call me a partisan, but I don't think an unsourced e-mail circulated by a congressman's "supporters" is much to dump my party registration over.
...changing parties over an email...that the candidate didn't even write.... Makes sense to me </s>
As you say. I don't know who sent this email, but the Democrats are known to have been sending out emails claiming to be from the Republican Party. Most recently, the one in Sugarland just a day or two ago.
If he's a Christian why is he voting for abortion and homosexual marriage?
Interesting choice of comment by the writer. Seems to me what Mr Webb has written is evidence of WHAT HE IS MADE OF.
What a blowhard.
How odd. There is no party registration in VA.
He has major daddy issues.
Whatever.
Most Texans won't vote in Virginia, but he may be one of those permanent bureau folk who live in and stir up people in their host state.
I read somewhere this morning that the purported email in this case may well have been a hoax.
This guy is a mental and moral nitwit.
Let's suppose that he did get an email as described. He doesn't say that it came from the Allen campaign. No, he claims it came from "supporters" of Allen.
How does he know that? It could have come as easily from supporters of Webb who know that may would recoil from such a ham-handed approach.
Or, even if it came from Allen supporters, so what? Allen "supporters" could send out every offensive e-mail they want, and just how does Allen becme responsible for what his supporters do is the age of e-mail? Besides, they have a point, even if expressed with all the subtlety of a kick in the groin.
The only question is, do we want control of congress turned over to Democrats and their handmaidens, or keep it in the hands of Republicans?
As Tom Sowell has poined out, the Republicans have been disappointing, but Democrats will be positively dangerous.
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