Patriot Project: Curt Weldon's attempt to swift boat Joe Sestak (PA race)

[ProSense]

July 28, 2006

CURT WELDON ATTACKS THE UNIFORM. AND THE VETERAN IN IT.

by Taylor Marsh

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We've learned to expect anything from Republicans these days. Remember Rep. Musgrave's little veteran photo op?

Democratic candidate Joe Sestak is their latest target. He's facing Curt Weldon, the Indiana Jones of the Republican Party.

And who's that, dressed in a safari jacket and a pith helmet, supervising the dig?

None other than our own U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.), leading a secret mission to unearth the Holy Grail of the war: the weapons of mass destruction that have eluded every other U.S. search team since our troops invaded three years ago.

Indiana Jones? No, it's Weldon

Talk about embarrassing; Curt Weldon should be the laughing stock of Pennsylvania. Instead, to bolster his sagging political fortunes, he's swiftboating a veteran.

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Meet Representative Curt Weldon. The man who's taking on veteran Joe Sestak . Let's just say that the scales don't balance on the resume side of things. You've got Curt Weldon versus a 31-year veteran, former 3-star Navy admiral, Joe Sestak, who also has a doctorate from Harvard and has "commanded battleship groups during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, served on the National Security Council (NSC) and revamped the Navy’s strategy for winning wars in the post-Cold War era," according to The Hill News.

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Here's the question voters were asked:

Would you be more or less likely to vote for Sestak if you knew he was (in so many words) a tool of the trial lawyers, pro-abortion, soft on terrorism, and a guy who let Osama bin Laden get away?

Dastardly push polls need to get heave-ho

A former Senior Advisor from the Kerry campaign said to me yesterday that he was "fairly certain that if Osama bin Laden had swum by the Admiral's ship in the Indian Ocean, I'm pretty sure Joe would have caught him."

Now here comes the good part. Weldon's people said the company who ordered the push polling, Venture Data, don't even work for his campaign. Here's Ferrick's take on it: Venture Data does not appear on Weldon's campaign reports as a vendor, but a company called Progressive Opinion Strategies L.L.C. does. It got $17,000 from Weldon's campaign committee in March. The clips reveal that Progressive and Venture are often aligned in polling operations.

See how this works? Weldon gets to say he didn't fund the despicable Bush-like polling question, because it's technically true, while paying for it through another agent. Now whether this is actually push polling or simply "push questioning" is for someone else to decide. But I'd offer it's just plain wrong, immoral and dishonest. But hiding reality is a specialty of the Republicans.

more...

http://www.patriotproject.com/2006/07/curt_weldon_att.php

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1. Patriot Project's work needs to be spread by ALL OF US to media outlets

and every online forum.

We need to bury swift tactics with TRUTH and ACTIVITY.

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3. Posted at Huffington:

[karynnj]

5. He looks like Dick Cheney!

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7. Cheney and Rove's lovechild.

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2. Patriot project rocks!

[TayTay]

4. They really do.

These desicable chickenhawk bastards need to be fought every step of the way.

Patriot Project is an excellent on-going effort to do just that. I applaud them.

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6. yep!

[Bushwick Bill]

8. This slimy MFer, Weldon...

Sucks me in everytime on Able Danger, then we see his true colors with this shit.

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9. A Former POW Speaks Out

July 28, 2006
A Former POW Speaks Out
Today on military.com, a gentlemen who spent eight years as a POW in Vietnam writes about his sadness at the continued attacks against John Kerry. The post is here.

http://www.patriotproject.com/2006/07/a_former_pow_sp.php

A Former POW Speaks Out
Phillip Butler | July 26, 2006

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I was captured on April 20th of 1965 and released on February 12th of 1973, making me the 8the longest-held POW in Vietnam. During one period, November of 1969 till May of 1972, I was incarcerated in a camp we named “Camp Unity,” part of the “Hanoi Hilton,” with hundreds of my fellow POWs. During this time I shared a 40-man cell with Ken Cordier, and in the adjoining cell were Paul Galanti and Jim Warner who recently were active in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth negative campaign. Contrary to statements by these men, none of us ever heard about John Kerry's testimony or statements against the Vietnam War while we were in captivity. I remember. I was there.

The great majority of us were mentally, emotionally, and physically tortured by our Vietnamese captors. We often suffered from malnutrition, diseases and isolation. Many of our comrades died in captivity under these conditions. Our experiences there, even in the best of times, was stressful and no one who was ever held captive as a POW in Vietnam will ever completely put the experience behind them.

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Day, Cordier, Galanti and Warner have claimed to speak for most veterans and POWs. But they only spoke for a small group of ultra right-wing ideologues. In his renewed attacks on Senator Kerry this week, Day recycles the same personal vitriol and falsehoods about Kerry's “betrayal” of our fellow veterans that his organization trademarked in 2004.

The real truth is John Kerry is a Vietnam Veteran who fought heroically and was awarded a Silver Star and Purple Heart for his service. But he is also courageous for coming home and telling Americans the truth about the Vietnam War. John Kerry has continued to honorably and selflessly serve his country to this day. And I am proud, as a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, as a former Navy Light Attack carrier pilot, as a retired Navy Commander, as a Vietnam veteran and former POW, to call Senator John Kerry a Vietnam brother whom I honor and respect.

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10. This should get its own thread - people should learn that more vets are

coming forward to say they won't sit by again and let smears and lies be spread by vets operating with an ideological agenda.