Will You Fight With Them?
[Editor’s note: Cross-posted from Huffington Post]
Anyone who comes to Huffington Post has seen that the bloggers here have been the first to stand up and defend veterans from Admiral Sestak to Tammy Duckworth when they’ve been slandered. It should be a source of pride and testimony to how the blogosphere can get the truth out and deny lies a sliver of daylight.
But I need to tell you about a <a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/cbs-news-provides-free-ai_b_31824.html”>bigger effort that <a href=”http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=24644”>many here at <a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-boyce/let-the-voter-beware_b_31357.html”>Huffington Post have been working on very hard these last few weeks – and could use all of our help with from now to November 7th.
The Patriot Project has an incredibly important and concise mission. “Freedom of speech and the right to dissent are cornerstones of our democracy. The Patriot Project will defend any man or woman, regardless of party or affiliation, who is attacked or defamed and whose patriotism is questioned simply because they exercise their rights as Americans. This is our mission.”
That’s pretty damn fundamental in itself to who we are. But there’s a human face behind it. The fight is intensely personal to me. Veterans are running for office all over our country. A lot of them got interested in politics as part of my campaign, and some got involved in Wes Clark’s race. Some of us had disagreements for thirty five years—like me and Jim Webb, we didn’t see eye to eye over the war we fought in. But no matter where we came from, something much bigger now brings us together—we’re all a band of brothers now.
When I got off the phone with <a href=”http://blog.johnkerry.com/2006/10/swiftboating_never_again.html”>Patrick Murphy after the chickenshit attacks on his military record, something felt awfully familiar and it got me pissed off. I care about these men and women. They’ve got guts and they’ve got brains and they’ve got heart and I’m telling you they will change the character of this pathetic Congress, and I’m boiling mad watching people who didn’t serve attack those who did because they can’t win a debate on the merits.
But we need to take our anger and put it somewhere constructive – and the folks at Patriot Project have a very smart way of doing exactly that. They’ve been exposing front group after front group that have popped up this year just as they did in 2004, and they’ve been kicking the enemy right in the teeth.
From Bob Perry’s Economic Freedom Fund to <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com/2006/07/the_swiftboatin.php”>”Vets For Truth” which has been attacking a once and forever Marine Jack Murtha, The Patriot Project has been fighting back. And <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com/2006/10/the_patriot_pro_1.php”>fighting back hard.
Yesterday, I had the chance to send out an email on behalf of The Patriot Project, asking people to help do whatever they can to <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com/contribute.php”>support their mission.
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned in politics, it’s that you need to ask and ask and ask again. I’m asking again here today. Please visit <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com”>www.patriotproject.com. Learn more about what they’re doing and where they’re planning on fighting these final weeks. With our help, they will be out there from California to Pennsylvania and everywhere in between.
It’s up to all of us to say enough is enough. Stop the <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com/2006/10/john_kerry_figh_1.php”>swift-boating. Stop the <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com/2006/10/push_polling_wh.php”>push-polling. Stop the front groups that are created with single $5,000,000 donations from Texas tycoons.
Nitpick the campaign I ran all you want, question the tactics, I can take it —but above all the small criticisms, I know that I lost to two lies backed up by big money: a lie about Iraq and a lie about my military record. Pundits can feast on the little details, I’m busy this year making sure that no veteran loses to a lie in 2006.
Stand up for the truth by <a href=”http://www.patriotproject.com/contribute.php”>supporting The Patriot Project.
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Well my goodness, sounds like the Senator is a bit peeved, lol. I can hear it now -‘yes, the “c” word is in the Senator’s vocabulary’. Chickenshit from the chickenhawks, perfect!
Enough is Enough, you are so right Senator Kerry, we are all tired of these cowards and their lies.
So Rove says that he will keep the Senate and he has a plan. Mr. Swift Boat , there is a very hot place in hell waiting for you and your slime.
We must stop them in their tracks and their tricks.
The gloves are off, NO SURRENDER !!!
I don’t have a problem with the Senator using strong language to express strong emotions. Shucks, if he could contemplate all those chickenshit attacks *without* getting pissed off, I’d have to have some serious doubts about the fella.
And chickenshit attacks they truly are. But it’s starting to look like there’s a big backlash building against the side that uses such desphickable tactics. Some voters will still get sucked into the neokonzertruppe spin, but more and more of them are getting so sick of the armchair generals’ bogus barrages of below-the-beltway attack ads that they’re starting to turn away from the ranks of the Reposeurs in droves.
Rovie’s Raiders have been a terrific recruiting tool for their opposition party—the best example of that kind of thing happening since, oh, I dunno, maybe since GWB invaded Iraq and cheesed off a whole country full of what had originally been peaceful noncombatants.
Nobel laureate and former State Department bureaucrat Thomas Mann once noted that “War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” He was right about that, and it’s the primary reason that RoveCo keeps crying havoc and letting loose the dogs of war. It buys them much-needed fear-based votes from we-the-sheeple, while simultaneously sweeping their sleazeweasel misdeeds under the carpet of false patriotism.
When Bush and Cheney get together with their old army buddies and reminisce about their combat experiences, they’re only hallucinating. When Murphy and Murtha and Wes Clark do the same thing, they’re just testifyin’. Mighty big difference ‘tween the two there, folks.
Unlike the current SecDef and the snakes’-level skanks who work with him, Mr. Kerry has fought in war and he has fought for peace. He’s got the credibility to address the problems of both, and the stones to do so in the line of fire. I say you gotta give the guy some major-league props for that. Pissed off he may be, but chickenshit he most certainly is not.
bushiana delenda est,
M. Loutre
Okay, I just ponied up $35, the least, and all I can do with buying DVDs for every community board in Brooklyn to stop e-voting. There are 18.
Admittedly, we have many places to put money. Just contribute a little here, too.
Frankly, after confirming our suspicions of a steal in 2002 from our friend, Max Cleland, in Georgia, this is personal.
Yes, they used the terrorist card, and accused a triple amputee veteran for being unpatriotic , but they also put an illegal patch on the voting machines one night, warehoused, and all Dem neighborhoods. So say recent whistleblowers.
Results were surprising but attributed to very public attack ads.
Let’s not give them cover.
Wow, particularly potent Otter prose.
Paws up, on that one.
Aw, shucks, Marjorie, now you’re gonna make start to blush. Gee whillikers.
But I am definitely with you all the way on the no-quarter stuff. If it’s cover Rove wants, then his evil minions are going to have to run for it all by themselves. No playing halfsies, not this time. I say swing the big ax and let the chickenshits fall where they may.
And I also second your emotion in re Senator Max. He’s a good man, but they done him wrong. He wuz framed! I know, I wuz there.
“I voted for Max Cleland. Max Cleland was a Senator of mine. You, Rove, are no Max Cleland!”
And you can quote me on that, too.
Why not? I just did… :0)
cluck ‘n’ cover,
Otter
The only thing these people will listen to is a strong defense and to calling them out in exacting language. The current masters of the Repub Party think they can walk all over anyone they want. They can’t. It’s not decent and it’s certainly not right for this country.
Bravo Senator for calling them what they are and for telling them, in no uncertain terms, that we are not going to take it anymore. Bravo!
Well, reading this post is enough to get a donation out of me. Only three weeks before we make some major changes in this ‘pathetic’ congress.
Nicely done, Senator. Keep it up!
‘Chickenshit’, LOL. So true.
good discussion here
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/18/163939/66
“Kick their ass from one side of the country to the other”........“chickenshit”........“lies”..........
I agree Senator, keep up the heat. If the GOP’ers try to use this against you it will only get more press and these words will be music to a lot of people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired, and they’ll see there are people out there that will stand up to a bully.
IMHO - it’s time to take a page out of your own playbook….. you’ve taken enough fire from the shores, time to beach PCF94 and relentlessly hunt those who would harm your freinds and end their political aspirations before they end another “Max Cleland”.
By the way:
military deferments = cut and run
Air Force Reserve in a time of war = cut and run
-AND-
not addressing IRAN and N.KOREA most certainly=cut and run.
Rock on Senator….....I don’t want to have to move out of Ohio to become your constituent!