Stumpy The Mailman II

Some people at a forum that faithful reader Jesse had me check out and post a rebuttal to an asshole took offence at me calling Max Cleland Stumpy. Why am I so mean to him? Because as a disabled person who has never used my disability as a crutch (pun intended) I despise him for the way he has decided to politicize the fact that he is now a unidextrer. I could maybe understand if he had been injured on the battlefields of Viet Nam like the Dimocrats would like you to believe, but he lost his limbs behind the lines when he was getting in a helicopter, after having a few beers with his buddies and he saw a grenade on the ground and bent over to pick it up. There is a conjecture that it fell off his belt as he was entering the helicopter. Whatever. It exploded and that is when he lost his limbs.

Up until a few years ago he was an honorable man and was the first person to say that he was not a hero. He did not receive a purple heart, nor did he want one, because this was not a battlefield accident.

After he was elected to the Senate he changed from a moderate to a liberal and became a Tom Daschle Dimocrat. He started playing up the war hero bullshit when his opponent in the 2002 election pointed out that he was more interested in union jobs than national security. That's when the Dimocrats started with the "war hero" bullshit and "questioning the patriotism of a man who lost three limbs on the battlefields of Viet Nam". Now he is running around as Kerry's mascot saying "Look at me! I'm a crippled war hero." As a cripple myself I am disgusted that he is politicizing his behind the lines accident.

The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation had a write up of his political mail delivery stunt. And that is what it was. A calculated political stunt. Send the crippled "war hero" down to shame Bush. This from a party that for eight years said military service didn't matter and ran a draft dodger against two genuine heroes who didn't brag about their military service. Senator Kerry, real heroes don't brag. You are a fucking despicable fraud as is your political party!

What did Stumpy have to say to the presss?

"What they are doing is unconscionable," Cleland said of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group running the ads. "And George Bush is behind it."

Prove. It. Bush has said absolutely nothing about Kerry's service other than saying it was honorable. You and the rest of your party, including Flipper, has accused Bush of being AWOL in the National Guard. He has released all of his records. Your candidate has not.

And let's talk about the 527's. The only link between the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth and the Bush campaign was Benjamin Ginsberg who to avoid any appearance of impropriety resigned from the Bush campaign
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Let's look at the 527's on the Dimocrat side and their links to the Dimocrats.

• The general counsel for the Kerry campaign, Bob Bauer, is also the lawyer for "America Coming Together" which, according to the Times is, "a liberal group that is organizing a huge multimillion-dollar get-out-the-vote drive"

• The chairman of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, NM Governor Bill Richardson, is an advisor to a 527 group "The New Democratic Network"

• Kerry's former campaign manager, Jim Jordan, is now the spokesman for a 527 called "The Media Fund"

• The lawyer for the Democratic National Committee, Joe Sandler, is also the lawyer for the mother of all 527s, "MoveOn.org."

But this is OK because they are Dimocrats and the media gives the Dimocrat Party a pass. Media bias? Naw!

Let's continue.

Cleland then dodged Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, a Republican who offered to deliver the letter to Bush if Cleland would accept a letter of response.

"He would not face me," said Patterson. "He kept rolling away from me. He's quite mobile."

Just damn, that Stumpy is fast!

"We're having to go through Vietnam again," Cleland lamented.

Who the fuck brought Viet Nam up Stumpy? Who decided to make his four months in Viet Nam the centerpiece of his campaign? He refuses to run on his record as an anti-war protester and member of a communist front organization Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. He refuses to run on his record as Michael Dukakis' Lieutenant Governor. He refuses to run on his record of 20 years in the Senate where he authored no major legislation, he voted against every major weapons system, he voted to cut intelligence spending, he missed over 70% of the meetings of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his liberal record has made Ted Kennedy the conservative senator from Massachusetts.

I would love to hear where he stands on the issues rather than hear him answer every question with "I served in Viet Nam" and "I would do a better job than Bush". He is a fucking empty suit who is playing up a four month tour of duty where it is beginning to look like he exagerated his exploits and down right lied about other stuff like having spending Christmas in Cambodia "seared" in his memory while being shot at by drunken South Vietnamese allies celebrating Christmas while his president (and he meant Nixon) lied about US soldiers being in Viet Nam. Three, count 'em, three lies. He wasn't in Cambodia, Nixon wasn't president Christmas of 1968, and the Vietnamese don't celebrate Christmas. This guy lies more than Clinton. He's just not as good at it.

Clinton without the charm. Algore without the charisma.

Stumpy, your buddy Flipper is the one who wants us to go through Viet Nam again because that is all he has. And he is using you and you should be ashamed of yourself.

By the way, has anyone read this letter? This paragraph just jumps out at you at being the height of hypocrisy.

"Our pain from seeing these slanderous attacks stems from something much more fundamental, that if one veteran's record is called into question, the service of all American veterans is questioned," they said.

"the service of all American veterans is questioned". This is the party that demeaned Viet Nam veterans during the war. John Kerry, by the standards of Dimocrats, told lies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Remember the 16 words in the State of the Union that started out "British intelligence has told us..."? Bush was stating what British intelligience had told us. The Dimocrats say this is lying. Kerry testified what Viet Nam "veterans" (many of the members of VVAW were not evern veterans) had told him. By Dimocrat standards these are lies.

And to hear the Dimocrats who hate the military, supported a draft dodger who in his own words "loathed the military" talk about how much this disturbs them is total bullshit!

Howza 'bout the letter that Stumpy refused to deliver to the Poodle?

The Bush-Cheney campaign responded with a letter to Kerry signed by seven Vietnam veterans, including Patterson and GOP Reps. Duke Cunningham and Duncan Hunter of California and Sam Johnson of Texas.

The letter, which Patterson said was drafted by the Bush campaign, expresses respect for all veterans but complains about Kerry's anti-war activities after he returned from Vietnam.

"We served honorably in Vietnam and we were deeply hurt and offended by your comments when you came home," they said. "You can't build your convention and much of your campaign around your service in Vietnam and then try to say that only those veterans who agree with you have a right to speak up."

But you don't understand, only Dimocrats are allowed free speech. Conservatives are not allowed to voice their opinions. Dimocrat 527's have spent over $60 million so far. Good. Swift Boat Veterans have spent les than $1 million. Bad. The Dimocrats have sent out lawyers to television stations trying to stifle free speech. They have tried to suppress the book, Unfit For Command, and I bet they'll try to supress the upcoming TV documentary about Kerry.

Farenheit 9/11. Good. Stolen Honor. Bad.

No word on Stumpy's current whereabouts.

Posted by denny at August 27, 2004 07:50 PM