Max Cleland plans pro-Murtha rally -- the day before VFTT's Boot Murtha Rally in Johnstown, PA

BootMurtha.com ^ | 8/26/2006 | IPWGOP

[IPWGOP]

Maybe Cleland can get Code Pink to line up their fake but accurate coffins for his rally -- like they did at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

[fish hawk]

Can't wait for the Tweedley Dee/ Tweedley Dumb dance. Oh wait, Max blew his own legs off for his country. (or for a beer, I can't remember) At any rate, I don't see this causing a landslide for Murtha.

[jazusamo]

Code stinko, vets for peas and justice, commie front group ANSWER, world workers party, cpusa.....

I sure wouldn't bet against you on the affiliation of many at his rally to those groups. Looks like they'll have a gay old anti-war protest day of it.

Wonder how that will set with conservative Dems of the disrict?

[Coop]

Wouldn't that be nice? Might open some eyes of the pro-Murtha veterans.

[IPWGOP]

I sure wouldn't bet against you on the affiliation of many at his rally to those groups. Looks like they'll have a gay old anti-war protest day of it. Wonder how that will set with conservative Dems of the disrict?

My guess is, not too well!

[Common Tator]

If you were Murtha and wanted support from other politicians would you first ask people like FORMER SENATOR Cleland and Former Speaker Wright? Wouldn't you ask current leaders...like Pelosi and Reid?

I think Murtha did just that plus some 201 currently sittling congressman and 44 currently sitting Senators in addition. I think it likely that everyone he asked said NO WAY.

Only when everyone who has something to lose had said NO did Murtha ask a FORMER Senator and a FORMER Speaker of the House to support him. They are two people with names that can not be hurt by supporting Murtha.

That says to me that everyone currently in office turned Murtha down. I don't know if any of those serving in the legislature felt that they could help Murtha, but we can certainly deduce that they feel campaigning for Murtha can certainly hurt them.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There are a lot of questions about Murtha's Vietnam tour and his two Purple Hearts. From what I've read these were awarded after he got into Congress despite a lack of evidence of any injuries inflicted by the enemy. I think if he would sing a Form 180 it would clear things up. I didn't serve with Murtha but I was in the same division and our tours overlapped. I know he was a regimental intelligence officer which means most of his time would have been spent sifting paper in tent or a hut.

[jazusamo]

Murtha is crapping cinder blocks about now. He has hitched himself so closely to the antiwar movement that he has no chance of distancing himself come November.

LOL...I think you nailed it. He'll have a very hard time trying to explain the ties to that antiwar movement.

[Coop]

Very good points

[tflabo]

The Murtha Pinko Code

[Grampa Dave]

I'm in total agreement with you re refusals by Murtha's fellow rats to defend and back him.

He went suddenly planning to campaign for many of his peers to basically none. Then as you pointed out in this reply, he has no current member or senator running out to help him.

We both know that the members of congress use private focus groups of selected voters to get their feelings on certain critical subjects. Apparently, Murtha didn't do well in these focus groups.

[Tribune7]

ping

[dirtboy]

Also realize a lot of Dem House members were put off by Murtha saying he would seek the Majority Leader position after the election. That rankled on two levels:

Public presumption of a win (very dangerous before it actually happens), and

Public presumption that they saw him as some kind of leader, instead of a useful idiot.

[IPWGOP]

Wouldn't that be nice? Might open some eyes of the pro-Murtha veterans.

Most folks in Murtha's district 12 do not go online, do not access the Internet, do not know what the DRUDGEREPORT is, etc. Their information comes from local and state newspapers, radio and TV, which serve up Murtha puff pieces.

If I were one of Murtha's constitutents and had no alternate media Internet knowledge, Cleland's rally would hit me like a sledge hammer.

[Mo1]

BTTT

[Coop]

Well, I'm sure they're going to try their best to remain well behaved, to avoid that very scenario. But that may be easier said than done.

[HarleyLady27]

I have ALOT of faith in the people of that district....they are embarrassed, they are tired of his mouth and they WILL get rid of him.....

[Coop]

I hope so

[Just A Nobody]

LOL! I KNEW someone would ask that question. No comment!

[sgtbono2002]

Max Cleland. The guy who found out the hard way that grenades are made for kiling the enemy, Not for playing with on the helicopter ride home