What does Valerie Plame being a Democrat have to do with anything?

[Greeby]

Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) kept bringing this up at the hearing, plus the fact she donated to President Gore's campaign in 2000.

Hell, given the way this Republican administration has treated her, and the whole GOP has covered up for them, why shouldn't she be a Democrat?

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I'm glad it was brought up a lot.

It just shows how this republican administration didn't mind outing a cia agent because she was a Democrat.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

2. Funny, though. No one asked Victoria her party affiliation.

Go figure.:shrug:

[geardaddy]

12. Yeah I guess she only protects Rs from exposure.

While Chief Counsel for Senator Barry Goldwater, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1981-1984, Toensing was instrumental in winning passage of two important bills: (1) to protect the identities of intelligence agents and (2) to protect certain classified information from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.

Emphasis mine.

[emulatorloo]

3. Don't you know, Democrats can't serve thier country or be patriotic citizens

Happily Waxman set Lynn straight. -- paraphrasing -- "facts are neither democrat or republican. And we do not ask our soldiers thier political affiliation as a prereq to serve thier country"

[dogday]

4. Funny when she was risking her life, nobody thought

to ask her political status.... Just because the Republikans are like that, does not mean we all are... Some of us just want truth and justice....

[Botany]

5. It has nothing to do with anything but ...

.... everything to do w/ right wing talking points.

Such as "Clinton did it too." Firing of US Attorneys

Dan Rather was behind the bush AWOL story w/ phony papers

Mrs. Alito had to leave the hearings in tears because of the tough
democratic question to her hubby

John Kerry was making fun of the troops

Al Gore flies in private jets

The media is liberal .... only "we" can give you the true story

All that democratic election fraud.

Creative Response Concepts & Rove sell the lie 24/7

[Ezlivin]

6. Because with these bastards every single thing is political

They needed to know because if she is a Democrat it's obvious she was "working" for the Democrats, not the country.

Since this is exactly they think and behave; they assume everyone else does as well. Her party affiliation answers everything for them.

[azmouse]

7. Because the Pukes put their party loyalty above everything

even loyalty to the US! It's what everything comes down to for them.
They can't believe someone could love their country even more than their political party.

[davidwparker]

11. nicely stated. I was going to add this thought but couldn't do it as

succinctly as you. :toast:

[azmouse]

17. Thank you!

That's very kind of you. :hi:

[davidwparker]

8. can't wait for Malloy to mock Westmoreland tonight. Both are in GA and

Mike can sure do a good southern accent. He has me rolling on the follow when he does GA accents.

[Maccagirl]

9. It's all they have left

On this issue (and a host of others)-they are toast. Waxman's reply was tame compared to the "education" I would have given the GOPer regarding Democratic/Progressive service to our country.

[Richard Steele]

10. Because repubs are lying scum who see themselves in everyone else.

It means NOTHING to anyone who isn't part of the 'backwash'.

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Bitterly ironic

The question of Plame Wilson's party affiliation is just a variation on the tactics that necessitated these hearings in the first place.

If someone says something that Bush and Co. don't like, they stop at nothing to smear, discredit, or destroy her or him.

[sutz12]

14. There is a RW meme out there....

I've heard a "conservative" on another board use it.

It says that Plame and Wilson (that evil liberal tag-team, you know) had it in for Bush as some kind of vendetta. I never heard what triggered that, but Wilson/Plame are apparently part of the left wing attack dogs out to get our exalted PResident. So they engineered the whole "ruin her career" outing just to smear the White House. It astounded me when it was posted. That's pretty whacked. Their logic is that somehow Valerie fell on her sword as a kind of suicide attack on Bush or something. It was pretty scary thinking.

Everybody knows the drill. Admit nothing, project everything.

[RufusEarl]

15. Valerie & Joe are Democrats, well there you have it.

I do wish she had said she was an American, and left it at that. This will be the talking point for ever repug on ever talk show for the next week, she and her husband are Democrats.

I got so pissed off when that dumb ass ask her that question, what possible difference can that make except for a repug talking point.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. And it has been used as a talking point

Don't you know? Rank and file Democrats are disloyal Americans and enemies of Christ. Those atheist Democrats want the terrorists to win so that we will all be made to convert to Islam. Don't you know anything? Don't you ever read Ann Coulter?

[leftofthedial]

16. that was a hook for the backwash repuke base

reinforces the talking point du jour in their criminal clubhouse, that it's all a political smear

[niyad]

18. still trying to prove she was not covert, since, in her contribution to gore's campaign, she listed

brewster-jennings as her employer--therefore, she was NOT covert!! see how simple that is??

[LSK]

20. wasnt Wilson an ambassador under Bush 1?

[IChing]

21. It was a talking point for talking heads to catch and repeat

It was not a valid point but a point which will be queued up from their side

Is she a Catholic?
Is she a Woman?
Does she watch TV?

Have you, or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

[GreenTea]

22. For republicans to finger point...."see it's just Dem's lying and blaming republicans"

that's how republican's do it...ALWAYS blame the messenger.

[guitar man]

23. It doesn't

but I'm glad the question was asked and answered. The first puke that brings up Dems "politicizing" these proceedings with me will get beat about the head and ears with that little Q and A :)

[kestrel91316]

24. "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the

Democratic Party?"

McCarthyism, Part 2.

[kestrel91316]

25. Heh heh. If VPW had been REALLY smart, she would have

answered, "I decline to answer that question and wish to assert my 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination".

Because it's becoming abundantly clear that these freaks consider MEMBERSHIP IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO BE A CRIME.

[Duer 157099]

26. "If I wasn't before, you can rest assured I am now after being outed by the Rs"

that's what I wish she had said

[MurrayDelph]

27. Same answer I gave on a different thread

I would have liked her to have said something along the lines of:

"Congressman, I am a registered Democrat, but I am an American first! Can you make a similar claim?"

[johnnydrama]

28. Republicans:

1. God
2. Party
3. Family



24. Country

[H2O Man]

29. Think of this:

he said that the OVP saw a democrat Joe Wilson being sent by his democratic wife. That indicates that, as Ambassador Wilson noted, the OVP did a "work-up" on him .... and that it included his wife's party registration.

Similarly, think of Victoria T commenting on Plame's CIA status. How could she possibly know more than has been reported in the media? What would give anyone the right to share any information about Plame's employment status with her?

All of this is evidence that the administration spread information about the Wilsons through neoconservative circles, both before and after the Novak article.