Heave HO! Iraq Veteran Told to Quit Ohio Senate Race by Schumer & Reid

PittsburghAfterDark

PittsburghAfterDark

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Back to the plantation with you! Some way to "de-pussify" your party huh? Tell an Iraq veteran to shut the hell up, sit the hell down and let the long time party loyalist get the national cash.

What a bunch of backstabbing SOB's. Convince the guy to run, push him out of the race for whatever reason.

Can their be any form of life lower than Reid and Schumer?

I can't blame this guy for leaving politics. Who would want to deal with a bunch of losers like this. To think they look moderate compared to Senora Cuntbag Pelosi.

Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race, and Perhaps Politics

By IAN URBINA
Published: February 14, 2006

Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders.

Mr. Hackett said Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York and Harry Reid of Nevada, the same party leaders who he said persuaded him last August to enter the Senate race, had pushed him to step aside so that Representative Sherrod Brown, a longtime member of Congress, could take on Senator Mike DeWine, the Republican incumbent.

Mr. Hackett staged a surprisingly strong Congressional run last year in an overwhelmingly Republican district and gained national prominence for his scathing criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq War. It was his performance in the Congressional race that led party leaders to recruit him for the Senate race.

But for the last two weeks, he said, state and national Democratic Party leaders have urged him to drop his Senate campaign and again run for Congress.
Excerpt: Link, Ultra Right Wing News Source The New York Times
 
[quote name='elprincipe']This kind of crap happens in both parties all the time. I fail to see what's to get so worked up about.[/QUOTE]

Well, it's a bothersome scenario, and one that reinforces the "the extremists rule the parties" stereotypes. I respect Hackett, and I'm upset at this scenario.

OTOH, Mike DeWine is a far more politically formidable opponent than Jean "I said John Murtha was a coward before I didn't say it" Schmidt, whom Hackett lost to just last 2004. It's fair to say that the party leaders did not want to delay the inevitable, if the inevitable is Hackett returning to his law firm in one form (political defeat) or another (political persuasion).
 
I'm upset about this, too. Hackett should have been given the respect he deserved, and let him run for senate.
 
[quote name='E-Z-B']I'm upset about this, too. Hackett should have been given the respect he deserved, and let him run for senate.[/QUOTE]

Because he lost already? I understand that the left wants to get over the "antiwar, antitroops" stigma the right has foist upon them, but there are better ways to do that than to champion an Iraq veteran who has no political history except for a loss to Jean Schmidt.

I personally prefer the "let's actually try to fight terrorists instead of tear down dictatorships" approach myself. It's possible to be pro-war and against the Iraq war, but nuanced approaches such as that, which feature two whole fucking contingencies, just aren't palatable to the dunderheaded media, or the people watching.
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']Can their be any form of life lower than Reid and Schumer?[/quote]
Karl Rove for his smear campaign again John McCain.

Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin (and the other GOP operatives) for their attacks on Max Cleland.
 
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