***THIS*** is how Republicans circle the wagons, friends

[Bluebear]

.....Rep. Duncan Hunter (news, bio, voting record) (R-El Cajon) ) said that "people should remember that Duke Cunningham has honorably served this country, sometimes in great danger, for 35 years."

.....Throughout his career, Cunningham's views have been conservative and his rhetoric sometimes bombastic. He has referred to gays as "homos," made a derogatory quip about the openly gay Rep. Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record) (D-Mass.), and suggested that
Bill Clinton's antiwar past would have made him a candidate for being "tried as a traitor and even shot" had he lived in another country....

On Wednesday, a resolution he sponsored that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the flag was approved 286 to 130 and forwarded to the Senate. The resolution was among 15 bills Cunningham sponsored in 2004.

Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), the House majority leader, refused on Tuesday to comment on whether Cunningham's house sale should be referred to the Ethics Committee. Cunningham has contributed $5,000 of his campaign funds to DeLay's legal defense fund as he fights controversies of his own. "Duke Cunningham is an honorable man," DeLay told reporters. "He is a war hero. He was the first Top Gun."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/latimests/20050623/ts_latimes/congressmansoldhomeandcouldpaydearly

That's how they celebrate their own. Meanwhile they are allowed to refer to OUR war heroes like this:

[neuvocat]

1. If he was such a great pilot, how come he got shot down?

I know its a bullshit argument but its typical of the form of logic that they use to deceive people.

[Kolesar]

2. & Old Bush, & John Mccain

Feeling rotten today.

[Bluebear]

3. "It's OK that he may have cheated, he was a hero!"

But John Kerry "shot himself" to get out of serving, right, conservatives?

[Gabi Hayes]

4. did you hear what he said about Barney Frank while speaking

about his own cancer treatment

unbelievable

[Gabi Hayes]

8. it's amazing how nobody's heard about any of these quotes:

"I have flown an F-14 over this Capitol with a 20 mm gun that could shoot 6000 rounds a minute. I could disintegrate this hall in a half-a-second burst." --S.D.Union-Tribune, 5/7/1994

When speaking about John Kerry, said "We do not need someone that would vote like a Jane Fonda as commander in chief." --Congressional Record, April 22, 2004

“I would have no hesitation about lining them up and shooting them {Vietnam War protesters} . . Those people should be shot for what they did to us over there.” (Feb. 2002 to a Blade-Citizen reporter)
--Blade-Citizen, 10/10/1992
http://dukecunningham.org/quotes.html

[Bluebear]

9. Gee, no calls to "APOLOGIZE!!!!!!"

[Gabi Hayes]

11. you know it's OK for him

just wait and see how little coverage there is over Fatfuckarl's today

anybody see Inside Politics?

did they discuss it? whitewash it? make fun of dems for complaining?

[Bluebear]

12. Novak: Rove is "mad" that liberals call the President a liar

So tit for tat. That was about it.

[karynnj]

10. It's also fair after their attacks on Kerry, who in the Navy

was courageous and intelligent enough to save himself and his men from what would have been a devastating attack. If his exceptional record can be attacked, why are McCain's and this guy's less than exceptional records sacrosanct. - because they're Republicans

[BurtWorm]

5. Cunningham is the PINHEAD who said we should ask the 9/11 victims

if it's okay not to pass the flag amendment.

[Burried News]

6. Hey a man's gotta eat - Rod Steiger

Now the woman here looks like she's found her substitute for a 'whole lotta love' - did her chin get in the way of an ear of corn or sumpin. Don't tell me she was watchin Zell an lookin to jess eat heem uhp.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. America's 1st Top Gun?

Did anyone tell Eddie Rickenbacker this?

http://www.acepilots.com/wwi/us_rickenbacker.html