As do the lefties at Burnt Orange Report. If I hadn’t started covering and learning about Noriega months ago, I might be surprised at his manufactured outrage in his latest bid to garner support. Because of that I’m not surprised at all. Irritated, yes, perhaps even infuriated. But not surprised.
The latest manufactured outrage of Lt. Col. Noriega involves an advertising buy from Sen. John Cornyn’s campaign. Apparently, the Cornyn campaign had planned to blanket the state this past weekend with paid advertising. Unfortunately, this little storm called Hurricane Ike showed up on the scene the same weekend.
Politics being politics, the Cornyn campaign stated that they were going to suspend their efforts for a short time and focus on recovery efforts for the citizens on the Gulf Coast. Unfortunately, 3 of the 50+ television stations that were to air advertisments did not get the message to cancel in time to actually cancel the ads. So, folks in Austin, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Amarillo got to see the ads. Good for them. I wish I would have been among them.
But I wasn’t. You see, my house is in one of the harder hit areas, so I’ve been spending my time cleaning up, trying to get my work back together and helping my neighbors.
Rick Noriega and the boys at BOR apparently had plenty of time to check the ads out and come up with an outrage strategy. As in, they think it is outrageous that Sen. Cornyn would dare to campaign while ‘millions’ of citizens were hurting.
Talk about a joke. The Lt. Col. is feigning outrage while he is 200 miles away from his own freaking district. That’s right, the Lt. Col. was campaigning while I was sitting sweltering without power. Barking at the moon you little yap dog?
If I were responsible for the Cornyn campaign, I’d blanket the entire state 10 times over, storm or no storm. I can say that because my house is affected.
The little boys at BOR have no right and the LTC has no right to fake outrage about anything storm related. Texas needs solid conservative leadership and no Senator is more solid or more conservative than John Cornyn.
Sen. Cornyn tried to do what he thought was right and as happens all too often, the lefties try to use that to their advantage.
I’m irritated right now.
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BigJ, we need to start a campaign, like Where’s Waldo. Where’s Noriega? Has anyone seen him? He’s not in his district helping out. We can dress him like Waldo, and make t shirts. I thought Noriega was this big, brave soldier type. Why isn’t he helping?
When you have no platform of ideas to campaign on, you turn to trickery to try to defeat your opponent. That is obviously Rick “The LOSER” Noriega’s campaign plan. Rick should be damanding debates on the merits of his campaign instead of looking for “loopholes” to attack from. How did this guy ever achieve that high a rank in the military?
Brown-nose?
Noriega deserves credit for one thing: his speaking to that group of truant illegals a couple of years ago was one of the first events that kicked my mind free from the Democratic Party. I realized that he saw them as his true constituency, which by definition means he has no use for me, except for my money and my vote.
Cornyn, on the other hand, is the only elected official (as Attorney General) ever whose office did something that benefitted me — without spending any government money, either. All he did was erase the administrative errors of his Democratic predecessor, but it meant the world to me.
I always wonder why Rick Noriega appears in some pictures with jump wings and the combat infantryman’s badge, and in other pictures he does not (scroll down to the pic of him in uniform with his family).
Perhaps somebody with expertise on Army uniforms can educate me on this.
Note to Senator Cornyn: No good deed shall go unpunished. Noriega, like any dhimmicrat is morally bankrupt and will do anything to gain the power he desires.
Big45iron, I looked at the photos and the second one it is hard to see anything. Also the time frame for that photo is not specified. There is something beneath his lapel. I happened across a better resolution photo. It is his jump wings. His rank in that photo appears to be as a major prior to his promotion to Lt. Col (prior to 2005). Some time during his 14 months in Afghanistan he got the CIB but it was after his promotion to Lt. Col in May, 2005 or at least he was not awarded the badge at that time.. So the photo is prior to May 2005 and possibly earlier. The first photo which he is in his BDU’s, is one from after his promotion and time in Afghanistan since he now has a CIB.
P.S. I am not an apologist for Noriega.
Political grandstanding aside, since everyone does it during elections and John Cornyn isn’t exempt, I can tell you that in the Texas Lege Noriega was a stand up guy. He voted his conscience even when it was hard, and took on tough issues because no one else would. He was a respected, no-BS rep. What’s more, fwiw, his wife did GREAT in the term she did while he was in Afghanistan. She wasn’t just a placeholder, she was good in her own right. (And by “good” I mean principled and effective, whether or not those principles agree with mine.)
The demeaning language used in the post and comments (”yap dog,” “morally bankrupt,” etc.,) says a lot more IMO about those who say such things than it does about Rick Noriega. He’s probably the only vet in Texas back from Afghanistan who LSTers would subject to such treatment, and he doesn’t deserve it.
Like what?
It looks like his most significant legislative accomplishment is requiring that fertilizer be locked up.
Oh, and national guardsmen get free fishing licenses now.
I will grant you one thing. You’re right when you say that “no one else would” write a bill to congratulate a college football coach for a .548 record.