{"id":20824,"date":"2010-10-13T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20824"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:20:51","slug":"vote-vet-wastes-money-on-harry-reid-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20824","title":{"rendered":"Vote Vet wastes money on Harry Reid ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

If I were to name one person in the Senate who did absolutely nothing to support the troops deployed in combat, it would be Harry Reid. He declared the “surge” a failure before it began. He spent two years trying to defund the wars and leave the troops in the field without resources – two entire years. During that time, he couldn’t pass a defense budget, yet found time to bring to the floor of the Senate time and again legislation that would prematurely end our involvement in the Near East.<\/p>\n

Here’s VoteVet’s “About” statement<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The mission of VoteVets.org Political Action Committee is to elect Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to public office; hold public officials accountable for their words and actions that impact America\u2019s 21st century servicemembers; and fully support our men and women in uniform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, here’s the ad that VoteVets is running in Nevada for Reid, who somehow managed to avoid military service, and has managed to to avoid support for the troops in the field.<\/p>\n

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Dicksmith<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n

Titled “Highway,” the ad shows a young man hiking along the road, just as Harry Reid did once a week as he went back and forth to school. Narrated by Anthony Funches an Air Force veteran from Las Vegas, the ad chronicles how Harry Reid has always beat the odds, including his leadership to provide care and benefits to our nation’s veterans. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Are they talking about the same Harry Reid the rest of us know? In Pennsylvania, they’re supporting Patrick Murphy – their sole survivor of the 2008 cycle after their other goofus, Eric Masa screwed himself out of the House of Representatives – with this ad;<\/p>\n

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Yeah, I’m sure Mike Fitzpatrick is a bigger threat to veterans than Reid. Dick Smith promises more ads tomorrow – wanna bet it’s for Sestak?<\/p>\n

Jon Soltz writes<\/a> about the commercials and Vote Vets;<\/p>\n

We’ve been there to push through the new GI Bill, to push back against truly wasteful spending that could be used for the troops, and to support veterans who want to continue their service in public life, among many other things. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, since when. VoteVets and Soltz has been charging hard for the Clean Energy Bill (Cap and Trade) which has nothing to do with supporting the troops – name one thing they’ve done this year that didn’t have to do with Cap and Trade or getting Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell reversed.<\/p>\n

He forgot to add one thing to that last sentence. It should read; “…to support veterans who want to continue their service in public life, as long as they’re Democrats<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

ADDED:<\/strong> TSO pointed out that last Friday dicksmith wrote<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Look, I’m not real comfortable with a Veterans organization endorsing non-Vets at all. If there is no Vet in the race or you don’t like the one in the race, just don’t endorse. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So why are they throwing money at Harry Reid. He’s not a veteran, there’s not a veteran in his race? Why doesn’t dicksmith and Soltz just come out and be honest that the only requirement for their support is membership in the Democrat Party? Are they just that treacherous and unscrupulous?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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