(OT) DXHomo, the want-a-be man.
Oklahoma Joe
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3348791
Vets get in races to fight GOP
War experience touted for Dems.
Veterans for a Secure America fields candidates for Congress
nationwide, including two in Colorado.
By Jim Hughes
Denver Post Staff Writer
More than 30 Iraq and Persian Gulf War veterans have entered
congressional races across the country as Democrats, hoping to
capitalize on their military experience to topple the incumbent
Republican majority.
In Colorado, two former military men, Jay Fawcett and Bill Winter, are
vying for the House seats of two strong, entrenched Republicans:
Rep. Joel Hefley of the 5th Congressional District and Rep. Tom
Tancredo of the 6th Congressional District, respectively.
"Do we understand military and foreign affairs? You bet," Fawcett said.
"Most of us have been to the point where you get a direct dose of
military and foreign affairs, mostly in the category of small-caliber
weapons. But we understand that that is just one aspect of national
policy."
On Dec. 20, Fawcett and Winter joined 35 Democratic veterans running
for Congress at a strategy session in Washington, D.C.
The veterans voted on a name for their emerging caucuslike campaign
coalition: Veterans for a Secure America.
They also agreed that their military backgrounds should be promoted as
credentials for leadership across the full spectrum of public policy,
said Fawcett, an Air Force veteran of the 1991 Gulf War who has taught
at the Air Force Academy and now works as a consultant to Northern
Command in Colorado Springs.
The group will reconvene in Washington in February to respond to
President Bush's State of the Union address in a news conference on the
steps of the Capitol, Winter said.
An attorney and the former president of the grassroots liberal
organizing group Be The Change, Winter spent 10 peacetime years in the
Marine Corps and the Navy.
Fawcett said the group is not anti-war but is concerned about what
appears to be a lack of a solid plan for the war in Iraq.
He said the group's military experience could be crucial in providing
better leadership.
The war in Iraq, which polls show is now unpopular with most Americans,
is a growing political weakness for Bush and for Republican lawmakers,
Democratic strategists say.
As proof, they point to the experience last summer of Paul Hackett, an
Iraq war veteran who narrowly lost a congressional bid in a solidly
Republican district in Ohio.
Hackett now is running for Senate.
"Iraq is in the eye of the beholder in many ways, but increasingly, the
public is viewing it negatively," said Rick Ridder, a Democratic
consultant in Denver.
"I certainly think there is a greater momentum now among (Democratic)
veterans, after Hackett did so well in a predominantly Republican
district."
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dxAce
Oklahomo Joe wrote:
Catchy name, however there is no such thing as Democrats for a Secure America.
Nice try, 'tard boy, get back to me when you've something good.
dxAce
Michigan
USA
dxAce
dxAce wrote:
One other thing: It sure is funny watching the Democrats suddenly embracing the
military as of late!
LMAO at the ridiculous Liberal/Democrat 'tards.
dxAce
Michigan
USA
Michael Lawson
his television ads (and there were way too many ads
for the 2nd District here locally), you'd have thought he
was pro war. If you came to see him in person, you'd have
realized that his television spots were deceptive at best,
since he was definitely anti war. He also tried to portray
himself as a man of the people, but in reality he was
the richer candidate, living in one of the most exclusive
neighborhoods in the Cincinnati area.
Hackett also had the luck to run against someone
after a bitter Republican primary to succeed Rob
Portman; most of the negative ad work was already
done for Hackett by the nastiness of the primary
campaigners. Some of the implications that some
of the primary ads ran against Jean Schmidt were
the type that you'd not expect to see anymore,
like the equivalent of "she's unfit for the office
because she's a woman" or that "she disagreed with
her leadership" on certain issues. (There was way
too much mudslinging all around, really. One guy
was mad enough at losing in the primary that he started
telling people to not vote for Schmidt, even though
most of his ads were aimed at yet another candidate.)
Hackett's run for the US Senate is complicating things
for the Ohio Democratic Party, since they wanted to
give the nomination to another guy who's actually
held office before, and they view Hackett's run as
distracting to the overall campaign. The Democratic
Party was hoping that the conservatives in Ohio would
be not so thrilled with Mike Dewine and could win the
election because the conservatives would stay home,
but Hackett has become pretty much a lightning rod
and if he wins the primary, the conservatives
will have plenty of reason to show up at the polls.
--Mike L.
"Oklahoma Joe" <ok-no...@okie.net> wrote in message
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cuh...@webtv.net
cuhulin
RHF
Yes - In truth the Democrat Party of the USA does not have a plan for
a "Secure America". Although Al Gore did have his Locked Box :o)
But it is Rumored (Hey - It's just a rumor) that soon to be in 2008
US President Hillary "R2" Clinton (The "R2" because for She's Right
on Both Sides of the Issues) has a "Plan for a Secure America".
(Leaks from reliable insiders with in the HR2C Presidental Planning
Organization confirm this via their thoughts and expressions :o)
The Clinton - "Plan for a Secure America" - Entails that Any One
Who Voted for the 'other guy' will be sent to a re-education-camp
and forced to Read from Chairman Bill's Little Black Book 24&7 :o)
fact -or- fiction - you decide ~ RHF
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dxAce
RHF wrote:
Hillary wouldn't know a plan even if it crawled up her %^#& and decided to spend
the winter.
The only thing I'd want from Hillary is her little secret for trading cattle
futures.
LMFAO
dxAce
Michigan
USA
m II
> Hillary wouldn't know a plan even if it crawled up her %^#& and decided to spend
> the winter.
Don't be shy..You can say it here. UP HER ACE! There..that wasn't too
hard, was it?
UP HER ACE! Feel better? Heck, this is contagious..UP HER ACE!
laughing my Ace off...
mike
cuh...@webtv.net
prez of U.S.A.That woman isn't human.
cuhulin
cuh...@webtv.net
girlfriend,rice,saying he needed to go to the bathroom.I never ask,I
just get up and go.
cuhulin
cuh...@webtv.net
cuhulin
cuh...@webtv.net
Do y'all notice there isn't any objections from the bush administration
about that? I OBJECT!
bush is just as bad as klintoon,in some ways,even Worse.They are all in
cahoots together.Follow The Money.
cuhulin
cuh...@webtv.net
cheap,because of the droughts out West.Invest in Oil Futures,you can't
go wrong.
I lost everything I had in Bubblegum Futures.
cuhulin
Brian Denley
Hmmm I wonder which party has lost more members fighting for their country
in the last 100 years? You might be surprised.
--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html
Telamon
dxAce <dx...@milestones.com> wrote:
< Snip >
> > > The veterans voted on a name for their emerging caucuslike
> > > campaign coalition: Veterans for a Secure America.
> >
> > Catchy name, however there is no such thing as Democrats for a
> > Secure America.
> >
> > Nice try, 'tard boy, get back to me when you've something good.
>
> One other thing: It sure is funny watching the Democrats suddenly
> embracing the military as of late!
>
> LMAO at the ridiculous Liberal/Democrat 'tards.
How about "Democrats for cutting and running?" That fits just about all
of the Democrats I have heard on the Iraq war except for Zell Miller and
Joe Lieberman.
--
Telamon
Ventura, California
dxAce
m II wrote:
Keep laughing 'tard boy... there were 4 letters there...
Keep trying...
LMFAO at the snot nosed shortwave poseur behind the Maple Leaf Curtain yet again.
dxAce
Michigan
USA
clifto
> Hillary wouldn't know a plan even if it crawled up her %^#& and decided to spend
> the winter.
Don't underestimate her. Never underestimate her. If there's anyone who can
bring about a full-scale communist revolution in the USA, it's her.
--
If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination,
my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
Brian Hill
"clifto" <cli...@clifto.com> wrote in message
> Don't underestimate her. Never underestimate her. If there's anyone who
> can
> bring about a full-scale communist revolution in the USA, it's her.
>
> --
> If John McCain gets the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination,
> my vote for President will be a write-in for Jiang Zemin.
Yea clifto, She sure is special ;) I don't know why everybody can't forgive
old Slick Willie for foolin around on her? I would have. LOL!
--
Regards
B.H.
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http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/6.htm
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RHF
I lost everything I had in Bubblegum Futures.
. . . when the market Popped ! :o) ~ RHF
RHF
You Got Real Numbers
from Creditable Sources :
Then Show Us All !
amaze me ~ RHF