The more we learn about Sen. John Cornyn’s challenger for U.S. Senate this fall, Rep. Rick Noriega, the more laughable he becomes. There is so much out there, it is hard to pick a single subject to shake your head about.
For example, his campaign is using Sen. Cornyn’s humorous introduction video at the Republican state convention as some sort of “issue”. It is in every email his campaign sends out and he even made his own video “response” mocking it. Sheesh, you’d think the guy’s campaign would be focusing on his ideas but…apparently, he is lacking in the idea department.
As in, he has no energy policy. Yup, the 10 year state representative from the Energy capitol of America, who has a six figure job from an Energy company, who has been running for US Senate for over a year, has no energy policy. Except, perhaps, drilling for oil in Iraq but not in the U.S. Perhaps. We’ll know “soon” because that his campaign said we will.
Ms. Shulman, who said Mr. Cornyn is “stuck with his status quo ideas” on energy problems, said Mr. Noriega will offer expanded energy proposals soon.
See, I told you so. Soon, real soon, we’ll find out what The Shameless One’s energy policy is. Can’t wait.
Back to the lack of ideas, it should have been apparent a year ago that he had none because his entire campaign is based upon the fact that he is an active member of the reserves. Indeed, that is the main the reason the Democratic Party of Texas “chose” him, they thought it would play well.
Hmm. Let’s see how this plays. On July 16th, General Wesley Clark will be hosting a fundraiser for Lt. Col. Rick Noriega. What does Gen. Clark think of military service as a qualification for office?
“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” Clark said.
I’m guessing not much.
If Noriega’s military experience is worthless, if his 10 years in the state legislature is worthless and if his high paying energy job is worthless, what does that leave him?
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. He and his buddies can mock a video that was intended to be humorous and light-hearted. Got it. Good luck with that strategy, Mr. Shameless One.
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Why is it that Politicians in general, and Tricky Ricky in particular want to have it both ways?
What is that old cliche about cake and eating???
Anybody think that after ole Wesley’s coup of a performance berating John McCain’s military service, even Tricky Ricky would want nothing to do with his “help”?
Maybe the DNC sends out the Z team when they have to make a showing but aren’t overly confident about the candidate’s chances? By now Wesley has to be the undisputed head of the Z team.
Good to see you got the Bloggers for Cornyn talking points. Always nice to see original content on LST.
It was a hard choice between that or posting copies of the Chron’s TPIA requests.
Leave it to the liberal media if you say anything bad about the conservatives then you are the smartest person on this earth. The liberal media will give you as much press time as you need to spew out your lies but prove them wrong then who cares. As the campaign goes along, the next thing will be how bad Rick the *ick will lose.
“It was a hard choice between that or posting copies of the Chron’s TPIA requests.”
What this blog needs is more blockquote.
(and obligatory smilies)
Wes Clark and Noriega on the same stage?
When did vaudeville make a comeback?
“What this blog needs is more blockquote.”
Perhaps. Or, we could be like some others, lots of pretentiousness, self-aggrandizement and bloviating.
(with smilies, of course)
Just have to wonder if Rick is related to Manuel.
http://www.nationalreview.com/geraghty/geraghty200402020857.asp
Since I sat in on many of the POW debriefs during Operation Homecoming, I can personally attest to the courage and bravery of virtually all of the POWs, and John McCain in particular. He not only exhibited extraordinary bravery under excruciating physical torture, he also proved himself to be an outstanding leader under these circumstances to all who served with him. His ability to maintain his military bearing, his encouragement to others, his refusal to accept any sort of privilege, were all hallmarks of the finest examples of military tradition and courage.
John McCain, because of his grandfather and father, was singled out for particular torture since the N. Vietnamese viewed him as some sort of American prince. They thought if they could break him, it would be a huge propaganda blow to the United States. John McCain himself was acutely aware of this too.
I did not hear this directly from John McCain since I did not sit in on any of his debriefing sessions. I heard it from the mouths of other POWs who were with him.
As a military leader, Wes Clark doesn’t amount to a pimple on John McCain’s butt.
General Clark, try understanding this:
The story is taken from a speech that John McCain gave before the 1988 Republican National Convention.
As you may know, I spent five and one half years as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War. In the early years of our imprisonment, the NVA kept us in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell. In 1971 the NVA moved us from these conditions of isolation into large rooms with as many as 30 to 40 men to a room. This was, as you can imagine, a wonderful change and was a direct result of the efforts of millions of Americans on behalf of a few hundred POWs 10,000 miles from home.
One of the men who moved into my room was a young man named Mike Christian.
Mike came from a small town near Selma, Alabama. He didn’t wear a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old. At 17, he enlisted in the US Navy. He later earned a commission by going to Officer Training School. Then he became a Naval Flight Officer and was shot down and captured in 1967.
Mike had a keen and deep appreciation of the opportunities this country-and our military-provide for people who want to work and want to succeed. As part of the change in treatment, the Vietnamese allowed some prisoners to receive packages from home. In some of these packages were handkerchiefs, scarves and other items of clothing. Mike got himself a bamboo needle. Over a period of a couple of months, he created an American flag and sewed on the inside of his shirt.
Every afternoon, before we had a bowl of soup, we would hang Mike’s shirt on the wall of the cell and say the Pledge of Allegiance. I know the Pledge of Allegiance may not seem the most important part of our day now, but I can assure you that in that stark cell it was indeed the most important and meaningful event.
One day the Vietnamese searched our cell, as they did periodically, and discovered Mike’s shirt with the flag sewn inside, and removed it. That evening they returned, opened the door of the cell, and for the benefit of all us, beat Mike Christian severely for the next couple of hours. Then, they opened the door of the cell and threw him in. We cleaned him up as well as we could.
The cell in which we lived had a concrete slab in the middle on which we slept. Four naked light bulbs hung in each corner of the room. As I said, we tried to clean up Mike as well as we could. After the excitement died down, I looked in the corner of the room, and sitting there beneath that dim light bulb with a piece of red cloth, another shirt and his bamboo needle, was my friend, Mike Christian. He was sitting there with his eyes almost shut from the beating he had received, making another American flag.
He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was to us to be able to pledge allegiance to our flag and our country.
So the next time you say the Pledge of Allegiance, you must never forget the sacrifice and courage that thousands of Americans have made to build our nation and promote freedom around the world. You must remember our duty, our honor, and our country.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf has endorsed John McCain. Now if I had to pick a combat leader, and my choices were Norman Schwarzkopf and Wes Clark, I’d send General Schwarzkopf to lead the troops in combat, and I’d put Wes Clark in the rear with the beer and the gear. The troops know and respect a combat leader. Wes Clark wouldn’t be their choice either.
Also amongst those endorsing McCain are former Senator and Admiral Jeremiah Denton and Colonel Bud Day.
Now if Wes Clark wants to berate the military courage and leadership of these men, so be it. Again, compared to these men, Wes Clark is a limp wristed, liberal, whining girlie man who can pose as a general, but has zero respect from those who understand what combat and courage truly mean.