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Liberal doves run as war hawks
Politico ^ | September 30, 2014 | James Hohman

Posted on 09/30/2014 4:58:27 AM PDT by Scoutmaster

Democrat Kay Hagan didn’t mince words about the Iraq War during her 2008 Senate campaign against Republican Elizabeth Dole.

“We need to get out of Iraq in a responsible way,” Hagan declared in May of that year. “We need to elect leaders who don’t invade countries without planning and stay there without an end.”

Hagan is striking a different chord these days. Locked in a tough reelection battle, the first-term senator boasts that she’s more strongly supportive of airstrikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants than her Republican challenger, Thom Tillis, and says she’s been pressing the Obama administration to arm Syrian rebels since early last year.

“This is the time for us to come together, Democrats and Republicans, to confront the challenges that are facing our nation,” she said this month.

A host of Democratic Senate hopefuls who rode anti-war sentiment into office in the past decade are running for reelection now as hawks, staking out hard-line positions on the latest upheaval in the Middle East. The candidates are quick to note the differences between then and now — a years-long military mission with boots on the ground versus the airstrikes President Barack Obama has launched in Iraq and Syria in the past month.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; hypocrisy; iraq; syria
Democrat is a synonym for hypocrite.
1 posted on 09/30/2014 4:58:27 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
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To: Scoutmaster

If it wasn’t for double-standards, some people would have no standards at all.


2 posted on 09/30/2014 4:59:32 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Scoutmaster

Democrat=Liar


3 posted on 09/30/2014 4:59:56 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Scoutmaster

If her Republican opponent can’t bury her on this issue then he doesn’t deserve to win.


4 posted on 09/30/2014 5:04:26 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Scoutmaster

What?

Politicians are full of phony baloney at election time?

Well, my goodness, what’s next - clown wearing a red nose?


5 posted on 09/30/2014 5:05:17 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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CON ARTIST DUMMYCRATS Facing 2014 Obliteration....

DUPING VOTERS TO SAVE OBAMA'S ***----Breitbart.com reports that b/c of an increasingly hostile political landscape, Democrats are resorting to whining---asking voters to believe they have suddenly "seen the light" and are now conservatives.

In districts across the country, Democrats are campaigning as "true believers' in tax cuts, balanced budgets and for rolling back big government's harmful regulations.

The Dummycrats are so desperate, thry're even bleating about guns, fracking and coal....trying to appeal to the conservative heartland.

The list of Democrats carving out more conservative positions is too lengthy to mention. In fact, breitbart.com reports, it would be noteworthy to find any Democrat in a competitive election running on the platform espoused by the DNC, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi.

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Opportunistic Dem candidates are marching in lockstep--- separating themselves from Dummycrat-ism when facing actual voters.

This is an old Dummycrat trick---emanating from the conniving. shallow mind of Chicago-land kingpins of political crime. Obama suck-up Rahm Emanuel actually dreamed up the con.

As you may recall, the contrived Democrat wave in 2006 was fueled, in large part, by Dummycrat's beating the drum about public weariness with the Iraq War...... and Dummycrats piling on GWB.

Naturally, the complicit drive-by media failed to report that this was a con game devised by the aggressive then-Cong Rahm Emanuel to recruit moderate and conservative Democrats to run for office.

This strategy worked so well that before the GOP landslide in 2010, 54 members of the House Democrat caucus were conservative "blue dog democrats." With only 14 "blue dogs" now serving in Congress, this mythical creature has all but disappeared from the political landscape.

With contemporary support for golf-addicted Obama, and his policies, nearing record lows, Democrats in Congress are again trying to pull off this trick.

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WRAP-UP: Stupid Dummycrats can run wearing Reagan masks, for all that matters----the prog/nitwit in the WH keeps reminding voters about the Dummycrat-fashioned disaster that has befallen our beloved country.

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Obama's an ideological and political animal, not in the least public-spirited. His only concerns are: A) Is this good for me? B) Is this good for the Democrat Party? C) Is this good for liberalism?

The Chicago criminals will do and say a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g to prevent exposing Obama's *** to Republicans.

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Time to stop thinking of Democrat-ism as merely a "political party"......

It's the party of slavery, servitude, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of scalawags like Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor, Chris Dodd, Richard Daley, Bill Ayers, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Chicago kingpin Obama.

It's a criminal combine----and hot bed of conspiracy to undermine US ntl security----Kendall “Agent 202” Myers, the Carter-era State Department official recruited as a Cuban spy along with his wife.

The Democratic Party shows its true colors over and over again------as a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.

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Astute conservatives have known from the getgo--- Dummycrat-ism is not even a coherent party....just a collection of hyphenates, hacks, hooligans, schemers and govt looters.....aided and abetted by an expedient alliance of special interest groups who finance the schemers....all of them gorging at the public trough.

6 posted on 09/30/2014 5:17:11 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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