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Category: VFW PAC

  • So how is that PAC working out for you, VFW?

    You probably remember the the dust-up we caused in the last election cycle over the VFW PAC which endorsed mostly incumbent Democrats in Congress. the VFW’s excuse was that it bought us veterans more access to the ruling party. Well, VFW, how’s that working out for you?

    According to Fox News, the Obama Administration blew them off this year;

    The Veterans of Foreign Wars convention this week will not feature a top-tier official from the Obama administration, a breach in tradition that the group’s commander described as an “insult of the highest magnitude.”

    However, an administration official claimed Monday that the White House made “every effort” to provide a speaker for the event, offering up a range of top officials.

    Yeah, “top tier” – Susan Rice, the UN ambassador. So I guess those endorsements have really paid off for the VFW. The American Legion has no PAC and that’s where the President is making his appearance. So what’s Joe Biden doing that he can’t make it to the VFW Convention in San Antonio? Not much according to his schedule this week.

    So that’s what members are getting for their PAC. I hope the VFW does the right thing and trash their PAC during this convention like they promised us last year.

  • Fallen soldier’s family slighted by Cantwell and Obama

    Sean Collins was killed in Afghanistan last month and, according to The News Tribune, were overcome by support of friends and family. But they were underwhelmed by the reaction from politicians;

    One slight came in a letter of condolences the family received from the office of Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.

    At first, the Collins family appreciated that Cantwell had taken the time to send a letter acknowledging their son’s sacrifice.

    But the letter misidentified the slain soldier in its last paragraph, which reads:

    “Again, please accept my warmest condolences. May your memories of Bryn and the knowledge that he made a positive impact on the lives of so many serve as a source of comfort to you during this time of sorrow.”

    The letter was dated Dec. 20 and delivered to Sean Collins’ mother, Linda Collins of Yelm. The error conveyed to the family that Cantwell had sent a form letter.

    Cantwell, was one of the Senators endorsed by the VFW-PAC, yet her staff couldn’t find the time to proof read her letter to a Gold Star mother.

    But the story doesn’t end there;

    The other slight came when [Sgt. Collins’ father, Lt. Col. Patrick Collins (Ret.)] called the White House and asked to have President Obama call his ex-wife, Linda, to talk about their son.

    He was told that Obama did not regularly make phone calls to the families of fallen soldiers.

    Later, Patrick Collins read a story about Obama’s phone call to Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffery Lurie. Obama reportedly praised Lurie for giving quarterback Michael Vick a second chance to play football after serving time in prison for running a dog fighting ring.

    “That burns,” Patrick Collins said Thursday.

    “Any soldier that gets killed in action, you’d think the president would be calling someone in the family. There’s no politics in it. His predecessor did it,” Collins said.

    Not to mention the countless vacations. Thanks to TSO for the link.

  • That VFW PAC endorsement thing is still out there

    I just had satellite TV installed and my new provider waited to tell me until after it was installed that they’re “in negotiations” with Fox News, so I have to get my TV news from the alphabets.

    Seemingly completely unrelated, Kendrick Meek, the Democrat candidate for Florida’s vacant Senate seat was asked by Bill Clinton to drop out of the race (he won’t admit it and Clinton won’t admit it). You can get the whole story at Ace of Spades.

    So, anyway, I watched Meek this morning on one of those alphabets, I think it was NBC’s morning show, whatever it’s called (the POS). Meek ended his interview by saying he’s not giving up his candidacy so Crist can win over Rubio because he has the endorsement of the VFW PAC. That perked up my ears so I went to the VFW PAC’s website to see if it was true. The VFW PAC’s website is down, so I checked out the .pdf copy of the endorsements which I saved weeks ago and sure enough, there’s Meek’s name.

    Meek’s poll numbers are at 15% in the three way race, so if the PAC’s intention was to have some influence in Florida, it’s not likely that supporting the badly trailing Meeks was going to do that. In fact, the VFW PAC has probably succeeded in pissing off both of the other more likely candidates.

    The PAC may be out of business, but their legacy lives on.

  • Nonpartisanship; UR doin’ it wrong

    TSO sent me this link from Moonbat Central at Veterans Today in their own discussion of the war we started with the VFW PAC entitled VFW Endorsements rile the grassroots written by Michael Leon.

    Leon defends the VFW PAC by pointing out how other PACs support candidates from both sides of the aisle based on their voting records. He spends an inordinate number of column inches on Vote Vets. Every time a writer does that, you can bet he’ll screw up. After quoting Jon “Hanger Queen” Soltz, Leon writes;

    The VoteVets.org PAC leadership picked 10 veterans to endorse for office this year, including one Republican.

    Oh, really? Which Republican would that be?

    In the VoteVets PAC’s “About Us” page it says;

    VoteVets.org PAC has three primary goals:

    Elect Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans to public office – regardless of party.

    I asked them the other day which Republican they EVER supported. The answer came back; Chuck Hagel. Well, Chuck Hagel isn’t in the running this year, and as far as I know, although he was a veteran, he’s not a veteran of either Iraq or Afghanistan – unless you count the sharpshooting he did at President Bush.

    So I’m wondering which Republican they’re supporting this year. A dogcatcher in Bumfuk, Montana?

    See, if you go to Iraq Veterans for Congress’ website, they tell you in their “About Us” page right up front, that they only support Republican veterans.

    Vets For New York does the same thing.

    But VoteVets even supports non-veterans, even though their About page says that they only support veterans. Just yesterday, they announced they’re throwing another 200 grand into their ad buy for Harry Reid in NV. That’s a total of $600k for a guy who has never served a day in uniform…in fact he avoided the draft during the Vietnam War by taking a number of college deferments, the same thing Dick Cheney was criticized for eight years over.

    But $600,000 for a non-veteran? From an organization that calls itself “VoteVets”? There should be a law.

  • VoteVets on the VFW PAC

    The few remaining readers, including the fired front page writers at VoteVets are doing the “cabbage patch” at VoteVets because we’ve almost ended the VFW PAC.

    Right wing anger over VFW’s non-endorsement of degenerates who beat and torture detainees and fire 60 rounds into unarmed Iraqis and hang signs over their dead bodies has escalated to a level where the VFW national commander wants to dissolve the organization’s political arm all together:

    t would have been nice to see this kind of outrage when VFW failed to endorse Tommy Sowers last month and instead endorsed an incumbent who repeatedly voted against Veterans funding.

    Yeah, at the time, dicksmith complained that the VFW PAC didn’t endorse Sowers because the organization is partisan. So obviously the “smithy of dicks” didn’t look at the list of endorsees from the PAC or he would have seen that a majority of them were Democrats. Or maybe he ignored that simple and obvious fact in order to stay on message.

    Police officer and fired VetsVoice front pager, Chris LeJeune, you remember the guy who threatened to pretend he has PTSD so he could beat my ass, couples with the smithy of dicks to claim that VoteVets has endorsed Republicans in the past. That might be true, but I can’t find one. And, of course, they are reticent about naming this lone ranger of Republicans among VoteVets’. And obviously, he wasn’t successful or they’d be shouting his name from rooftops.

    Regardless, VoteVets is endorsing ten Democrats and no Republicans this election cycle, so they have no room to criticize the VFW PAC like they did a few weeks ago. And, oh, by the way, Swinging Richard, Allen West was just the impetus of firing the PAC, they lost their jobs because they endorsed people like Barbara Boxer, Harry Reid, Jim McDermott…you know, people who actually voted against the troops, not those manufactured votes you and Soltz are constantly yanking out of each others’ puckered asses.

  • The latest from the VFW

    Mr Wolf sent us this letter. I guess they’re going to calm us down;

    At this point it’s the rational thing to do. The VFW has underestimated the power of the internet for quite some time. TSO says that the letter is also on their Facebook page.

  • So Mr. Wolf talked me into an interview with Mother Jones…

    Mr. Wolf and I had a three-way phone call with Adam Weinstein, a copy editor at Mother Jones Magazine. Oddly enough the subject of hemp hats or hydroponic agricultural techniques never came up. Adam, a Navy veteran, wanted to ask us about the VFW PAC issue.

    I don’t remember any mention of the Tea Party nor do I think that what Mr. Wolf, Bev Perlson and I started can be considered “astroturfing”, unless Wolf is getting some cash from some deep pocket sugar daddy that I don’t know about.

    Weinstein got his shots in against, Allen West, Ilario Pantano, the Tea Party, Republicans, Pete Hegseth, Move America Forward and several other organizations. He opened the way for the narrow-minded commenters.

    So much for my reach across the aisle.

    Thanks to ponsdorf for linking us to the Free Republic forums.

    By the way, if this is your first visit here, everything I’ve written about the VFW PAC issue is at this link.

  • Finally, I got my phone call from VFW PAC

    I feel so special now after getting my call back from last Thursday. Of, course, I had to call back and leave another message and I had to identify myself as the guy who started it all in the first place (after Bev Perlson sent me the email and Mr Wolf gave me the megaphone). I told Michael H. Wysong, the treasurer of the PAC, that I was his last defender on the internet…that most of you want to quit and join Vets For Peace or something (I kid). I told Mr. Wysong that the Board had two options, either rescind their endorsements or turn their logo and name back to the VFW.

    Mr. Wysong said that the board voted 8-3 to rescind no endorsements. He also said that the only endorsements that were considered were Boxer and Klein. They weren’t aware that any other endorsements were disputed by the membership. So there you go, they’re not listening. I disabused him of that notion and told him that they should rescind every endorsement – because if two of them didn’t deserve the honor of being endorsed by the VFW, none of them did.

    So, I told Mr. Wysong that if they’re so pigheaded that they’re going to continue endorsements of candidates who have for 10 years done their best to undermine the troops, they can fully expect to be disbanded by the general membership. And that I would be at the Convention to make sure it happens. I might even wear my ‘c’ cap for the first time in public.

    So basically, I spent ten minutes pissing in the wind. But I still hold out hope that the Commander will do something other than talk tough.