"Vets for Freedom" (Bill Kristol & Dan Senor help their pal Joe Lieberman)

[Human Torch]

War Veterans Lend Support to Lieberman in TV Ads

By JENNIFER MEDINA
Published: September 2, 2006



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/nyregion/00lieberman.html

HARTFORD, Sept. 1 — An independent group, Vets for Freedom, will begin sponsoring television commercials early next week for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, thanking him for his support of the war in Iraq. Vets for Freedom is a group of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has ties to top Republican leaders.

The ads feature four Connecticut veterans, who look directly at the camera and appear to finish one another’s sentences, after introducing themselves as veterans of the wars. “When we were over there, it was important to know that someone had our back,’’ one veteran says. “Like Senator Lieberman,” adds a second. The ad continues with four phrases, with each veteran saying one: “No matter how complicated it got,’’ “He was there for us.’’ “Now that we’re home, we’re here for him.” “He stood with troops and their mission.”

:grouphug:

The ads will begin on Wednesday, with the group spending $75,000 to $100,000 for two days’ viewing, primarily on cable news stations, but also on network affiliates in Hartford. The group plans to continue the campaign through the election cycle and will probably do another commercial, advisers to the group said.

The group is receiving advice from Taylor Gross, a former White House official; Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard; and the Republican strategist Dan Senor. Mr. Lieberman’s former chief of staff, Bill Andresen, is also helping the group, which by law is prohibited from communicating with the campaign.

[acmejack]

1. Good to receive advice from that noted Veteran Bill Kristol.

A legend in his own mind! A veritable poor man's Audie Murphie...

[NewJeffCT]

2. Since when is Bill Kristol a veteran?

I'd wager than Dan Senor is not, either.

[Human Torch]

3. The vets are simply the PNAC sock puppets.

A talented ventriloquist knows how to stick his hand up the ass of just about anything and get it to speak.

:patriot:

[tanyev]

4. Hey, Senor was in Iraq.

I'm sure he thinks that makes him a vet.

[leesa]

5. Did Lieberman sign PNAC? I'm beginning to think there's a second

signatory page where folks like Lieberman, Dubya, Hillary, Feinstein and the rest of the warmongers must have signed on.