Terry McAuliffe: The Manchurian Chairman? Hugh Hewitt says Dem Party chief 'world-class fool'

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, February 4, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

[JohnHuang2]

Terry McAuliffe: The Manchurian Chairman?

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Posted: February 4, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Terry McAuliffe, whom we ought to call the Manchurian Chairman, hit a new low Sunday, saying on ABC's "This Week": "George Bush never served in our military in our country. He didn't show up when he should have showed up. And there's John Kerry on the stage with a chest full of medals that he earned by saving the lives of American soldiers. So, as John Kerry says, 'Bring it on!'"

McAuliffe is to politics what MTV is to Superbowl halftime shows: Low, tacky, and a failure. He is also increasingly unstable to the point that Democratic Party pros have to worry about what he'll say next. Yesterday's pratfall was a perfect example of an attention-starved ego diverting the press from the themes that the candidates are trying to develop onto a stupid comment and the clean-up that follows.

McAuliffe has long been a candidate message-killer – so much so that the anti-Clinton wing of the Dems suspects he's programmed to take down anyone who gets in the way of Hillary's potential run in '08. Crackpot allegations from the Begala school of broadcasting sure don't help the Kerry campaign, so you have to wonder about the Manchurian Chairman theory, though I think the evidence supports the much more simple proposition that McAuliffe is a world-class fool with too much money and powerful friends who didn't think about the Peter Principle until it was too late.

The Dems are stuck with McAuliffe through the convention, for which the Republican Party should be thankful. Having a buffoon in charge of the opposition is the sort of gift that keeps giving, as anyone who can recall McAuliffe's '02 prediction about the Florida governor's race or his '03 prediction about the California recall will attest.

McAuliffe's decision to deny that service in the national guard is service in the military – even as thousands of national guard have served in Iraq – is a blunder larger than any of his others, and trafficking in discredited urban myths gives you a glimpse of McAuliffe's desperation to turn the conversation to anything except Kerry's way-left voting record, or his role in the Dean meltdown, or the failure of Wes Clark to capture any significant support outside the loon caucus.

For the record: President Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard from May of 1968 to October of 1973. The long-ago discredited allegations that the president was AWOL (Absent WithOut Leave) are a feature of the Michael Moore crowd who point to a period of months when Bush was working on a campaign in Alabama, from May to November 1972, and did not fly. As the New York Times has reported in the past: "A National Guard official and Mr. Bush's spokesmen have said that he made up the missed dates, as Guard regulations allow."

Republican National Committee Chair Ed Gillespie labeled McAuliffe's lies "slanderous," "despicable," and "reprehensible" – which they are – but not even the dimwits in the national press corps are going to chase that rabbit, so only McAuliffe and the party he leads look bad as a result.

I hope the RNC provides a 24x7 cable show for McAuliffe and, in the interim, invites all those outraged with yet another clownish moment from the Alfred E. Neuman of American politics to skip the getting mad and go straight to the getting even via a donation at GeorgeWBush.com.

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[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Quote of the Day by Dutch Boy

[JohnHuang2]

Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!

[freebilly]

"George Bush never served in our military in our country. He didn't show up when he should have showed up. And there's John Kerry on the stage with a chest full of medals that he earned by saving the lives of American soldiers. So, as John Kerry says, 'Bring it on!'"

Guess that time in the Air National Guard was 100% vacation.

And I heard Billy Jeff Clintoon was a General. Why else would he ask all those women if they wanted to see his privates...?

[MEG33]

Thanks ,John.I hope they have it on film,ready to roll during the campaign.

What a stupid ,hurtful statememnt to make.There are a lot of Guard families whose loved ones are in Iraq...

[JohnHuang2]

Welcome, friend.

[OneTimeLurker]

Republicans are lucky to have Terry McAuliffe

[CyberAnt]

Yes it is, and I agree with John, it's a BIG BIG BLUNDER and fully proves the democrats cannot be trusted with national security.

Hewitt also said the Guard have been in Iraq .. my understanding is the National Guard is still very much there currently .. and here is McAwful saying it's not military service. I think this was a very gross error.

[The KG9 Kid]

Bush flew F-102A fighters in his National Guard wing.

Here's a picture of a couple of them flying back before the world turned color in the early 1960s:

First built in 1952, the Convair F-102 series was a hopelessly outdated jet some twenty years later when Nixon was already returning troops to the US under 'Vietnamization'. There was simply no chance Bush's Air Guard unit would have ever been activated.

Bush's unit was flying thoroughly obsolete and barely-supersonic interceptor jets, characteristics which really don't amount to much of an 'interceptor' at all.

[txzman]

He's not only a fool, he's a certified world class crook. Chasing down where he made his money from is as bad as Fastlow at Enron - the only difference is the paper trail.

[MEG33]

A freeper's husband has had his third extension in Iraq.He has been gone from home 15 months.He flies a Chinook.The Guard and the families are giving a lot.Yes,the Guard is in Iraq and more will go.Terry is beneath contempt.

[FormerlyAnotherLurker]

"There was simply no chance Bush's Air Guard unit would have ever been activated."

I've read this a lot but, IIRC, there was a squadron of F-102A's that was based at DaNang in 1966(?). It seems as if it would have been (remotely) possible that an ANG unit flying 102's could have been activated and sent to Vietnam.

A minor date quibble -"The F-102 made its initial flight on Oct. 24, 1953 and became operational with the Air Defense Command in 1956."
USAF Museum

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

-The Real Military Record of George W. Bush: Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, Either-The Original Story--

[CyberAnt]

"Terry is beneath contempt"

Exactly!!

[onedoug]

I seem to remember a web scan of Bush's DD214 from the GoreFest, but now can't find it anywhere.

It looked okay to me. One automatically looks to "Time Lost". I'd've noticed something funny.

Military Records Center, St. Louis? Department Of The Air Force?

[backhoe]

While I haven't updated it in some time, there is quite a bit about the man I dub Loathsome Terry among these:

-Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )--

[MEG33]

Thanks ,backhoe.

[backhoe]

You bet- I just get so tired of the gutter politics that "the Golden Age of Clinton" ( Wes Pruden, Washington Times ) dragged America into that I could scream.

See my tagline...

[Hon]

"First built in 1952, the Convair F-102 series was a hopelessly outdated jet some twenty years later when Nixon was already returning troops to the US under 'Vietnamization'. There was simply no chance Bush's Air Guard unit would have ever been activated.

Bush's unit was flying thoroughly obsolete and barely-supersonic interceptor jets, characteristics which really don't amount to much of an 'interceptor' at all."


147th Fighter Interceptor Group (FIG) History

On May 16, 1958 the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group (FIG), with its five new squadrons, was formed to support the 111 Fighter Interceptor Squadron. In August 1960 the unit was one of the first to transition to the F-102A all-weather fighter-interceptor and began a 24-hour runway alert commitment as part of the North American air defense network.

The 147th earned its first Air Force Outstanding Unit Award in 1966 when it was proclaimed, "The most combat ready of all Air Guard units."

From 1968 through 1970, pilots from the 147th participated in "Palace Alert" and served in Southeast Asia during the height of the Vietnam War.

With the continued draw-down of air defense units in the United States, the 147th FIG came off runway alert on Jan. 1, 1970 to start a new mission: training all F-102 pilots in the United States for the Air National Guard.

http://www.seanet.com/~johnco/bush102.htm

[TomB]

Somehow, Bush avoiding Vietnam to stay out of danger and then climbing into the cockpit of the 102 never made sense to me.

Being a fighter pilot -- for that matter, simply taking off in a single-engine jet fighter of the Century series, such as an F-102, or any of the military's other marvelous bricks with fins on them -- presented a man, on a perfectly sunny day, with more ways to get himself killed than his wife and children could imagine in their wildest fears.

-- Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff.

[MeekOneGOP]

Poor Terry McAuliffe. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it ! ...