Dean Email: Proof Out 50 State Strategy Works (What Strategy? Losing?)

Democrat Party ^ | 8/4/2005 | Mad Dr. Dean

[ChuckShick]

I hope they stay with this strategery.

[mainepatsfan]

Yup. Waste their energies on the solid red states while the GOP goes after the barely blue states.

[pabianice]

Marine Major Paul Hackett ran for Congress in a special election

Uh... no.

Serving military may not run for political office. FORMER MAJ Hackett ran and lost. As usual, the Dems can't differentiate between serving and former service members. Although I understand John Kerry DID serve in Vietnam...

[sierrahome]

"Paul Hackett didn't apologize for being a Democrat, didn't hold back from criticizing a president"

That's because in his ads he sounded like a Republican and he Fawned over President Bush. Basically, he hid his true personal agenda and not that many Republicans went to the poles.

[JRios1968]

Serving military may not run for political office. FORMER MAJ Hackett ran and lost. As usual, the Dems can't differentiate between serving and former service members. Although I understand John Kerry DID serve in Vietnam...

Hackett is still in the military, albeit as a Reservist. Reservists can run for office, but they have to maintain the same standards of conduct active-duty military members are held to. By the way, the comments he made about the President can easily be used to prosecute him under Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

[Minnesocold]

The formula is simple. Paul Hackett didn't apologize for being a Democrat, didn't hold back from criticizing a president who has failed to lead in Iraq and at home, and took a strong Democratic message into the heart of a Republican stronghold.

Paul hacket didn't apologize for being a Democrat... because he didn't mention he was one in his ad.

[Balding_Eagle]

They have a winning strategy, they should stay with it.

They also should get used to 'winning' like they did Tuesday. It's going to happen a lot.

[RedEyeJack]

"The formula is simple. Paul Hackett didn't apologize for being a Democrat, didn't hold back from criticizing a president who has failed to lead in Iraq and at home, and took a strong Democratic message into the heart of a Republican stronghold."

Everything I read says this is pure BS spin. Hackett deemphasized his status as a Democrat and while criticizing the administration to the national media tried to aligned himself with the president in his local campaign. As far as his Democrat message, he took a strong pro gun stance to the point of stating that he has a concealed carry permit, a position that I am sure DR/GOV Dean would never support...

Once again, Dean and the Democrats are obviously being untruthful with the public that now has access to real time info... Publicly lying like this in the Information Age makes Dean and the Dems look idiotic.

[Obadiah]

Couldn't agree with you more.

[OldFriend]

Much like the Deaniacs, there were more people from out of state, who couldn't vote, than there were local volunteers working for the faker Hackett.

[ThreeTracks]

Is he Selected Marine Corps Reserve or Inactive Ready Reserve?

[Raycpa]

We're building a permanent infrastructure to organize and build the Democratic base in every single precinct in the country -

A company that sells a crappy product that buys new warehouses and delivery trucks in hopes of selling more is in for a rude awakening.

[JohnLongIsland]

so the RATS are basically admitting we are going to lie and decieve and misrepresent ourselves to get elected
i guess their next trick is they will wear elephant masks when they are on the campaign trail

[JRios1968]

Is he Selected Marine Corps Reserve or Inactive Ready Reserve?

In yesterday's post Dems Brand Ohio Loss as 'Shockwave of Voter Discontent', you find the following:

Regardless of the election outcome, both candidates will be heading to Washington, D.C., later this week -- Schmidt to be sworn in, and Hackett for weekend duty with his U.S. Marines reserve unit.

Looks to me like he's Selected Reserve, which makes his comments (...while Hackett at one point described Bush as the biggest threat facing the nation and even referred to the president as "that SOB in the White House.") prime UCMJ material.

Draw your own conclusions.

[NRA1995]

I hear the TV announcer intoning "People do stupid things...." and I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....

[NRA1995]

I hear the TV announcer intoning "People do stupid things...." and I hear the Vonage music playing.....woo-hoo, woo-hoo-hoo....

[George W. Bush]

What this shows is that even a Dim veteran pretending to be a Republican can't beat a run-of-the-mill Republican.

I'd think they'd be depressed, not celebrating their 'victory', a new Dim euphemism for 'loss'.

[ThreeTracks]

Looks to me like he's Selected Reserve, which makes his comments (...while Hackett at one point described Bush as the biggest threat facing the nation and even referred to the president as "that SOB in the White House.") prime UCMJ material.

I didn't know that Reservists could run for office. I'm not sure how I feel about that...

As for the political comments, you're probably right that he could be charged under the UCMJ, but it would be pretty unusual if he was. Servicemen have the right to political opinions, too, as long as they don't inhibit the performance of their duties. If he'd said "I'm not serving under that chimp" or something like that, them he'd have a problem. As it stands, he may be technically in the wrong, but I'd be amazed if they went after him.

- ThreeTracks

[alicewonders]

i guess their next trick is they will wear elephant masks when they are on the campaign trail

Their next trick will be to get a fat-ankled shrew to campaign in black churches, go on TV & pretend that prayer is important to her, that she is against abortion & to run for president as a "conservative" - even though her record shows she is not.

[Mad Mammoth]

Oh it was really smart for this joker Hackett to go calling his Commander-In-Chief a "chickenhawk" in a solidly Republican district. Factor in the reality that Schmidt (the winner) was actually a weak GOP candidate, and that translates to one more lost election by the 'Rat Party.

And as EVERYONE should know by now, having worn one of the uniforms of the United States Armed Forces does not equate to being a patriot, to being wise and sage in one's judgments, or being worthy of holding political office.

One needs only look at John F'in Kerry (Traitor-Mass) in the U.S. Senate to realize that.