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.
nope, moved further South. ;)
Amen! Having been a Navy Pilot for 26 years, including Vietnam I know that.
LOL!
Generalizations may get me nowhere, but consistently sending a KKKlansman and a liberal Rockefeller to the Senate speaks volumes about why WV is 48th to 50th in any important ranking of a state’s performance.
The Republican party is very much established in WV and is making headway against the cronyism that has been established in this State for the last fifty years.
We’ll have to overlook Bob Taft’s ethics violations as just an oversight I guess. By the Way party is Strickland???
Looks like all the States have some work to do.
By the way, what party is Strickland???
I hope we all live long enough to see West Virginia turn around.
As far as Ohio goes, there’s no question we have been betrayed by corrupt Republicans. But we usually throw the bad eggs out. We don’t keep sending them back to DC. That’s why we’re stuck with the ‘rats.
By the way, I don’t consider Taft corrupt for enjoying a couple of free golf games. I consider him a spineless elitist with no convictions who squandered an opportunity to make a positive difference. We’re living with his legacy.
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