The gays are putting our national security at risk. And Congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat who represents mid-Missouri, is helping them do it.
That's the message we got last week from Republican Vicky Hartzler, a former Missouri state rep and author of Running God's Way: Step by Step to a Successful Political Campaign. Hartzler is challenging Skelton, who has held his seat since 1977 and looks mighty vulnerable to the Republican Party right now.
Skelton is anything but a flaming liberal. His career voting record has earned him a 46 percent rating from the American Conservative Union, as opposed to, say, Emanuel Cleaver's 5 percent or Roy Blunt's 93 percent. But according to Hartzler's analysis of President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech last week, Skelton is helping to promote the president's country-destroying agenda:
Sadly, the President doesn't or won't understand what Missourians know, that the failing policies his administration has been proposing need to be abandoned, not pushed further. He advocated continued support for failed policies advanced by Congressman Skelton and Nancy Pelosi. Both are out of touch with the wishes of the Heartland.Hartzler went on to crib from the National Republican Congressional Committee's talking points, complaining about "job-killing" policies that will destroy small businesses and impose communistic, apocalyptic tax increases.
The president says he was for national security yet supports measures to further put us at risk including cuts to missile defense programs, prosecuting terrorists in criminal court, and reinstating the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Ike Skelton has allowed the military to be used earlier to pass Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda. What will he do now?
Ike Skelton has allowed the military to be used to pass Pelosi's radical agenda? That sounds as if he dispatched troops to citizens' homes to force health care on us!
And wait a second -- reinstating Don't Ask Don't Tell? The policy still exists -- and Skelton has said he's against repealing it. In fact, gays and their friends held a rally downtown last week to demand that Skelton, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, at least hold a hearing on the issue.
I sent a note to Samantha Hill, Hartzler's spokeswoman, asking for clarification. Thus began an exchange that started out friendly but ended much too soon.
"Hi Samantha," I wrote. "Two questions about this statement." Those questions, as sent to Hartzler's office:
When Vicky writes: "The President says he was for national security yet supports measures to further put us at risk including cuts to missile defense programs, prosecuting terrorists in criminal court, and reinstating the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. Ike Skelton has allowed the military to be used earlier to pass Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda," does she actually mean "repealing" Don't Ask Don't Tell?Hill got back to me within a few minutes:
Also, when she says Skelton "has allowed the military to be used earlier to pass Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda," can you give me an example of what she's referring to?
Yes, she does mean repealing the policy. I apologize for the typo, that's a significant mixup.So Hartzler's claim that Skelton "allowed the military to be used ... to pass Nancy Pelosi's radical agenda" rests on his having voted in favor of a defense-spending authorization bill that included an attachment making it a federal crime to assault someone because of his or her sexual orientation.
Andthe primary example she would be referring to was the attachment of the "hate crimes" legislation to the defense spending bill last year.
Thanks again for the questions, and just let me know if you need to know anything else!
Samantha
I guess I'm not sure how repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell "puts us at risk"?I sent that at 11:20 a.m. on Thursday, January 28. Hill had been pretty speedy on the reply button until then, but I still haven't heard back on that last question. Which makes me sad, because I really want to know.
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Basically anyone associated with Obama is toast. I was no fan of that idiot Bush but right now Bush looks like a flaming genius compared to that outright Marxist Obama! Oh and the age old lie that Democrats ate the party of the little guy? Well maybe in the stone age but $12 trillion dollars now and counting to Wall Street Inc of AIG, BoA, Wells Fargo, Citigroup et al and Obama wavered on a pittance of a tax break for the middle class.
Although I have great respect for Ike, if I were in that district as I used to be, I would support Vicky. I strongly believe that our country has gone too far left, and Ike should have stood up to the President and the deficit increasing programs. At some point it doesn't matter how good a program is, it matters whether there is money to pay for it. Also, I believe that sometimes we "nitpick" what politicians say so much that we totally lose track of the message they are trying to convey. No wonder they occasionally refuse to "talk." I'd hate for someone to over-analyze every word I say.
Who in their right mind would have suspected developing a mosque at ground zero was recommended? I'm not really a great fan of either Glen Beck or Sarah Palin however compared with Obama and the idiotic governing administration, both of these are geniuses, come on The united states, there's a little strange stuff happening here. Bonita.
Yes Susan thier is a candidate that cares very much about veterans besides Ike his name is Brian Riley. Unlike Vicky he believes that Ike has done a lot for the military. I met him at a Honor Flight where he was their to give his thanks to the veterans as they came home. I later met him with his father at 40 and 8. He was in the first World Trade bombing and then lost 12 friends in 9/11 so he knows what it is like to be attacked right here at home by our enemies. He is very supportive of our military. If you what to know more about him I suggest you go to his web site www.brianrileyforcongress.com
As speaker for the American Military Veteran none can be any better than Ike Skelton. Does anyone even care about the young veteran besides Ike Skelton?
The only thing I have against Ike is that he's been there way too long, just like so many of the others. I'd like to see term limits in place for congressmen.
As someone who's never lived outside the Midwest, do people like this run for office everywhere, or just in the "Heartland"?
If so, where else do they have a serious chance of winning?
I guess I just wonder what it's like in other places where political disappointment stems more from having pie-in-the-sky hopes come crashing down to reality and less from the anger created when a small percentage of the population dares to have the jobs and emotions that other humans have.
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