Would some Republican please run against these bird brains???
Posted on 04/09/2008 4:11:29 PM PDT by The_Republican
West Virginia Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller was being interviewed the editorial board of the Charleston Gazette. During that interview he uttered this gem:
"McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit. What happened when they (the missiles) get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
First of all ... I rather seriously doubt that our military was using laser-guided bombs during the Vietnam War. Also, the aircraft that McCain was flying in Vietnam was not to drop bombs from 35,000 feet. It would seem that Senator Rockefeller has a rather limited understanding of our military's mission, tactics or capabilities ... but that's beside the point.
The real point here is what we witnessed is just another in a long string of statements and actions that vividly illustrate the disdain (if not outright hatred) that so many Democrats feel toward our military. There's Hillary using the Marine Corps to serve canapés at White House functions – then scrambling to get on the Senate Armed Forces Committee as soon as she's sworn in. Why? To mend fences – to show how much she loves our men and women in uniform.
Then there's that sap John Kerry and his false stories about our men in Vietnam. Do you remember the words? He said that U.S. forces in Vietnam were guilty of systematic war crimes, including rape, murder, mutilation and pillage with the full knowledge and complicity of their entire chain of command. Some Naval aviators felt that Kerry's actions in leading protests on his return the U.S. resulted in extended stays in North Vietnamese prisons.
Then there's Jack Murtha talking about U.S. Marines killing innocent civilians in Iraq "in cold blood." Those marines were later exonerated.
There's a reason why the vast majority of people serving in our military vote Republican. These people understand who is on their side and who is not. They understand that Democrats hold them in near-contempt. They understand that Democrats would much rather spend money on vote-buying programs than on beefing up our military.
Do you folks remember the aftermath of the 2000 election in Florida? Do you remember that the Democrat Party sent hoards of Democrats to Florida during the recount imbroglio with orders to do whatever they could do to make sure that military absentee ballots were not counted? How's that for respect for our military ... engaging in an overt effort to disqualify military votes in an election? Remember ... if the networks hadn't called the election for Bush in 2000 one hour before the polls closed in the military-rich Florida panhandle there would never have been a recount fight. The estimates are that Bush lost 13,000 votes there when military voters went home thinking that the contest was in the bag.
So ... Jay Rockefeller later apologizes. BS. He's only apologizing because the story became radioactive. He's doing what he has to do to calm the storm. We heard what Rockefeller really thought when he was talking to that editorial board.
West Virginia elected Klansman, Robert Byrd, too!!!
West Virginia is West Virginia because they vote badly. They vote badly because they think wrongly. They get what they deserve and the rest of us have to clean up the mess they leave behind. Morons.
When I think about a state that could continue to elect Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller to the US Senate, I have to wonder if the average IQ there is above 75...... but then how do we explain all of the other ‘blue’ states? It’s not raw intelligence that’s at fault, it must be the hallucinogens.
McCain flew an A-4 Skyhawk. Its mission altitude was nowhere near 35,000 feet. Senator Rockefeller is a cretin.
W.Va. didn’t elect him, he bought he vote....recall his last name please and realise that all families have ‘Throwbacks.”
“Would some Republican please run against these bird brains???”
There are few, if any, real Republicans in West Virginia. Apparently, they have been bred out of existence.
What's next, I wonder? That McCain strafed and bombed My Lai before Lt. Calley entered the village?
He was an Attack Pilot, not a Fighter Pilot. He got down and dirty and spent time in the Hanoi Hilton for it. Asshat Rockefeller should do a bit of research before he shoots off his yap.
“He was an Attack Pilot, not a Fighter Pilot.”
The A-4 Skyhawk was an attack plane. That’s what McCain flew. A-4s did not have a mission altitude of 35,000 feet. Hell, depending on the mission and the target A-4 drivers would get down and shake the deck.
Please don’t bother Sen. RockyFeller with facts. It is against his religion - he belongs to the Church of the Perpetually Dumb.
Besides, he’s a Democrat, where the “T” word (truth) is not spoken.
Sen. Byrd: The laundry called. Your sheets are ready.
Generalizations will get you no where pal.
Consider this. West Virginia is now classified as a Red state in the National races. Crap spewing forth from daddy warbucks will put his Senate seat ,deservingly, up for grabs.
We pick up more and more Republicans every election season with the majority being young voters. Yes, WV has an older voting demographic which is mainly democratic but they are quickly going the way of attrition.....
Sheetz Byrd is a compulsive habit the people of this state will not break voting for until he is farting dust. A lot of people consider Rockefeller a carpet bagger and an issue like his mockery of McCains war record could just send his arse packing.
Remember this. The only group of people I’ve ever seen trying to win an argument by calling people names or categorizing them as mentally challenged or druggies are the Democrats....
I believe we’ll see Shelly Moore Capito as a U.S. Senator in a few years.
I wasn’t trying to win any arguments, I was merely amusing myself.... cheap thrills.....
See post 17.
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