Posted on 02/16/2006 9:12:48 PM PST by Kaslin
Up and coming Democratic Party star Paul Hackett withdrew from the Ohio Senate race last week, saying "my own party is afraid to support candidates like me."
The Iraq war veteran meant that party officials feared backing a principled liberal like himself.
But Dems may have had another reason for pulling the plug on Hackett: his tendency to level outrageous charges without a shred of evidence to back them up.
WMAL Washington, D.C. radio host Steve Malzberg aired quotes from Hackett on Wednesday, where he repeatedly accused President Bush of using drugs.
Last November, Hackett began by telling Gentleman's Quarterly that Bush joined the National Guard instead of the army because "he wanted to drink alcohol and snort cocaine and party.”
A few days after the story hit newsstands, the Ohio Democrat was challenged about the allegation during an appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball" with Chris Matthews.
MATTHEWS: You said he wanted to drink alcohol and snort cocaine and party. Do you stand by that?
HACKETT: Those are the facts and I stand by them.
MATTHEWS: How do you know it's a fact that the president snorted cocaine, as you say.
HACKETT: I think it's been widely reported leading up to his first election. And there are many who have come forward and documented it and said they saw it happen. I take that at face value. I think that's probably quite factual.
Given the fact that he worked so hard to avoid service during his generation, it seems consistent to me . . . .
MATTHEWS: You know for a fact that President Bush, the commander-in-chief - because you're running for the U.S. Senate - was a cocaine user? You know that for a fact?
HACKETT: Well, I've read the reports as you have read the reports.
MATTHEWS: They're not reports, they're charges. I wouldn't say that I've read it in the Associated Press or the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. I may have heard the arguments made by people who I may not think have a firm grounding in journalism. But I've never heard a major or quality newspaper make such a charge.
HACKETT: I think that's a fair criticism. I'm merely relaying what you've heard and what I've heard.
MATTHEWS: That doesn't make it a fact, having heard it, does it?
HACKETT: Point well taken. I think, though, that where there's smoke, there's fire. [END EXCERPT]
This guy Hackett is the pedophile, isn't he? Or no.... maybe I'm thinking of Scott Ritter.
Whatever.
Doesn't say much about the discernment abilities of the DUmmies, does it?
DUmmies are pissed that Hackett is being pushed out.
The Dims are attemping to move to the middle again.
They trimmed Sheehan
I would think that would make Hackett a RAT star.
More like a Hacketteer, you say? Akin to the McCainiac and the Weasel.
Now that you mention it, they are of a type...
A star with the uberleft but I belive the Hillarys and Teds, while just as radical regard hackett and sheehan as loose cannons
I am a confidant of a man who is intimately a Bush confidant, and though I've met with Bush and talked with him on a number of occasions, it doesn't make me the ideal character witness.
I am aware of more of his previous character flaws than have ever been reported, not that they were terribly serious. Most of us made mistakes that other people witnessed or were a party to. I'm not sure character flaws is a good description. "Things that he's not proud of" might be better.
Cocaine is not one of those for President Bush. It's a vicious lie.
I wish he would get back in teh race. We need Dimmycraps like this guy.
"Given the fact that he worked so hard to avoid service during his generation, it seems consistent to me . . . ."
I never dreamed that 6 years service in the National Guard would be called avoiding military service. This must really irritate the National Guard and Reserve, Airborne Rangers, Navy Seals, Green Berets and oh ya fighter pilots.
This guy spewing this stuff and they say he's a lawyer?
What we really need are true conservatives to stand up to them.
So, based upon the fact that you just "heard" that, and I've just now "heard" what you "heard", my only question is why isn't Hackett registered in some child molester registry somewhere? The man is a dangerous pedophile!
Hoist. Petard. His Own.
True, but given the eternal wimpiness of the GOP, a few Paul Hacketts make life easier. They can be beaten so easily it isn't funny, and where they do win, they just make their party look bad.
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