I don’t have words for that level of contemptuous stupidity.

Just sent that link to my daughter, who’s in his district. She was going to vote Republican anyhow, but maybe more people will be horrified by this.

Okay, that is spectacularly stupid. He might or might not have a point about local government experience, but when it comes to denying that serving one’s country is hard work or public service… yeah, he is toast (it is to be hoped).

I hate to say this but I would have walked up to him as if to ask him a question and then punched him in the face. Heck with the consequences.

is there a statute of limitations to recall Ike?

Col Perkins ain’t no grunt.

Distinguished Flying Cross, the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal with two bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Commendation Medal with two bronze Oak Leaf Clusters, the Army Achievement Medal, the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Master Parachutist Badge, the Ranger Tab, the Special Forces Tab, General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award

Not including a pile of MA’s

Could Garry even qualify for just one of those awards?

A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable “to The United States of America” for an amount “up to and including his life.”

Could Garry even qualify for just one of those awards?

There is an echo on my keyboard

First they precluded Catholics and prolife Christians from Government and the High Court, now they are moving against the military veterans, who is next? (with a nod to Pastor Martin Niemöller)

PS. Republican President Eisenhower was a military man for most of his life.

Christopher, I initially thought that the identification (Dumbass – Virginia) might have been harsh. However, I persevered in reading the entry and I am convinced that it is, in fact, understated. Dumbass should have been in Second Coming font size, all capitals, and colored a nauseating green.

Connolly obviously has never read or seen “Starship Troopers.”

Here you go again misquoting Democrats. Connolly did not say that his opponents military service disqualified him from public office. Here is some more of the Washington Post article- “If Connolly is worried, he isn’t showing it. He dismisses Perkins as unqualified, based on what he calls his failure since leaving the Army to become civically engaged in the 11th District.”
Connolly is referring the time his opponent has given to public service since he retired from military service.
Colonel Chris Perkins bio shows that he retired from military service in 2006.

Sad thing about Gerry’s district is that, like a lot of northern Virginia, there are a lot of the hate-America type. Not as many as across the river in Maryland or DC, but enough to sway most elections.

This year could be different, because Gerry’s all in favor of sequestration (he’s voted in favor more than once) which will put more than 200,000 defense contract people out of work come January; there would be more losses beyond those.

By the way, this is the same issue that got the WH in some hot water a few weeks ago — not nearly all the trouble it deserved, thanks to the lap dogs in the MSM — when Obama told defense firms not to send out the 60-day layoff notices required by law. These notices, of course, would have gone in the mail by about Nov 2, much too close to the election for Obama to risk losing Virginia over. He even promised to have the govt pay the legal costs, including judgements, paid by firms in breaking the law.

Because of redistricting I’ll get to vote to dump the bastard this time, and I’m looking forward to it.

Let’s see 2012-2006=6 years. God forbid a person should just get a job and live his life to pay for the bureaucracy instead of living on the dole. We really need more professional politicians or lawyers in congress and not citizen legislators. Heaven knows what a good job the professional political have done running the country.

Here’s the WaPo hagiographical treatment of this Connolly fellow. I’m sure you’ll be shocked that he’s such a peach of a guy. What I think is interesting is that his district was redrawn to be safe for a Democrat. That will make it especially interesting to watch.

http://tinyurl.com/8rqe5m7

Douchenozzle-Virginia….

Thought I had looked enough, but I’m in the Va 8th now. Gonna be voting against Jim Moron, who is not the idiot Connolly is but definitely certifiably crazy.

With such poor judgement, no wonder our governmemt is such a mess.

Connolly is a former seminarian and now an anti-Catholic bigot. He won re-election in 2010 by fewer than a 1000 votes.

http://the-american-catholic.com/2012/02/17/gerry-connolly-former-seminarian-democrat-congressman-and-anti-catholic-bigot/

I think this guy is right. Former military in political positions? Will never work out well.

I mean, Washington? Jackson? Theodore Roosevelt? Eisenhower? Come on!

Plus, as the Gestap…er…Department of Homeland Security points out, veterans are the most dangerous terrorist threat. We go nutso and all that.

I was gonna run for Grand Poobah of Nebraska and tout my military service, but I guess it won’t help me now. Shucks! I coulda been a contender!

I’m assuming John has not served in a combat arm. His attitude on refuting everything would get him permanent point.

Connolly Connolly was a cosponsor of the Helping Active Duty Deployed Act[35] and the Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act (just don’t let them run for congress.

He’s been in politics since 1995, only 17 years of living at the pubic trough and not in harm’s way (except for Beltway traffic)

He is 304th in seniority out of 430.

John: Connolly said Perkins was “…unqualified for Congress” and asked where he was the last 16 years. Why, in the military, of course. Your grade: F-minus.

I was in the Navy and served on river patrol boats in Vietnam. I once ran for public office and won. I guess according to Connolly I was “unqualified,” huh?

And the branch of the military you served in was……?

I wish I had been in the Navy during the days when the ships were powered by coal. Must have been great to see a fleet pumping out huge clouds of billowing, thick, dark smoke across the pristine waters.

Don Janousek,
That’s awful. You should know better. You really don’t want a coal fired boiler that puts out huge clouds of billowing, thick dark, black smoke.
That’s a sign of a fire that’s choking for lack of oxygen. No, a coal boiler should put out huge clouds of thick, acrid, BROWN smoke, full of sulfur oxides (to make sulfuric acid) and heavy metal oxides (to poison kittens and hedgehogs). The carbon output should be invisible, in the form of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

I see our friend John has left his deposit of troll droppings and moved on. I guess that explains the name of that infamous web site which makes such wonderful, reasoned political arguments.

Allen Lewis.
The 9th commandment was being violated in the misquoting of Rep Connolly. To deliberately deceive to gain political advantage is surely a sin.
Is it not our duty to protect the innocent?
What do they teach in one of your approved churches?

Here is my favorite quote from the link Chris provided:

“Our country’s Veterans and career first responders don’t just have sweat equity in their community, they have blood equity in America”

– Colonel Perkins.

You see, John, there are many ways to serve a community besides lining your pockets from local kickbacks and other clever schemes to enrich themselves that career politicians manage to create.

Don and Dan.
What a shame! Coal fires were banned in the UK in 1952. That must have destroyed one of your favorite vacation spots. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/teens/case-studies/great-smog

From the WaPo article which John cited, but did not provide a link, it seems Connoly’s served 14 years as a county supervisor. That’s OJT in local corruption and learning where the bodies are buried. Good experience for a Congressman, whose main job is to deliver Federal goodies for his district. At least that is the way most of them view that position.

One of the major things they teach at the parish I of which I am a member is the sacredness of life. You know, “Thou shalt do no murder.”.

That precludes my support for our current President, who seems to believe government-sponsored abortions are just the thing to get this country going again.

I would not push the 9th Commandment too hard, were I you, John. President Obama has committed quite a few whoppers during his time in office, especially regarding that little affair in Benghazi. Maybe you should remind him of that.

Also, John, if our duty is to “protect the innocent,” as you say, then what about the wholesale slaughter of the innocent through abortion which Mr. Obama is so enthusiastic about?

When all else fails, revert to false abortion attacks.

Note to John,

Get a life!

John, if you read Donald R. McClarey’s link, you will see a link to a Planned Parenthood press release celebrating pro-abortion Congressmen, including Connolly. He is one of those “practicing Catholics” who finds no problem with supporting abortion. He was part of the administration’s foolish “war on women” story line. No false witness there. According to Connolly, apparently, his opponent should have involved himself in the usual local slap-me-on-the-back civic groups to be qualified for Congress. His own large hypocrisy with respect to his Church’s teachings hardly inspires confidence in his criticism of this decorated military man.

I have the pleasure of living in Connolly’s district. He’s a typical ward-heeler who would have been quite comfortable in the Chicago machine. Unfortunately, his track record in Congress gets little to no attention in the local media, and while this appeared in the Post, television news has had almost zero coverage of the congressional elections (they did briefly note that Jim Moran’s son had resigned from the campaign, but that was a one-day wonder that will not effect the anti-Semite father’s re-election).

My wife had a good response to this: “Apparently you have to practice feeding at the little trough before you get to feed at the big one up the road.”

We need to remember that many ‘Crats are anti-military as a matter of ideology. Too much testosterone (even the women) for them, I guess.

A joke from the First Gulf War:

The feminists were right…women make good warriors.
The feminists were wrong…women are not inherently peaceful.
So, while the feminists were confused, the women had a good war!

Charles E A Johnson.

FYI I have a wonderful life. I have been married to the same wonderful women for 55 years. All my children and grandchildren live close by. My church is great and I am a Democrat in reasonably good health. What more could a man wish for?

John,
A batch of Conservatives to feel unjustifiedly superior to?

Dan said- “A batch of Conservatives to feel unjustifiedly superior to?”
Superior to, hardly. Better informed, definitely.

Grandparents need to think about their grandchildren’s future. Leaving them with massive debt and less hope to make their way in life constructively is not what we should do for them. It’s (barely) not too late to reverse course.

Connolloy is another creature like Obama – of the government, by the government and for the government.In their minds that is all that counts.Leave God at the door before you bow down to worship at the alter of the GOVERNMENT.

John -

When all else fails, revert to false abortion attacks.

Be specific now. What is false about what I said regarding abortion? No weaseling, John: specifically what was false about what I said?

Nobody, that I know is pro-abortion. Those that have expressed an opinion are pro-choice. The choice is the perogative of the pregnant woman, her husband and or her Doctor. Your use of the term pro-abortion is provoking and inflammatory.

John

Those who believe in “choice” are in favor of “A woman’s right to choose.”

That sentence, “A woman’s right to choose,” is improper English grammar. It has a subject (“right”), a verb (“to choose”), but it lacks a predicate to make it a complete sentence.

Let’s see, “A woman’s right to choose?” “Choose” what? Hmmmmm. Thinking, thinking. “Eat?” No. “Breathe?” “Vote?” No. “Kill?” Maybe.

Thanks for the heads up on no coal fires in England. I’ll change my vacation plans to China. I hear that it some cities an oxygen mask is needed just to go out and get the morning paper. Mmmmmm! Sounds good. King Coal still reigns in some places.

I regret that Gerry Connolly is my congressman until January 3, 2013. Thanks to redistricting, my residence will then be located in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District. Most likely, I will then be represented by 10-term incumbent Jim Moran, who’s even worse than Rep. Connolly.

“Nobody, that I know is pro-abortion.”

I’m sure you don’t personally know anyone who is pro-abortion, John. But I would suggest you get to know Katherine Ragsdale, not to mention any of a number of speakers at the Democrats’ abortion-palooza in Charlotte, and you would find that there are in fact lots of prominent feminists and Dems who do, in fact, think abortion is a good thing for women. Not just the ability to make the choice, but to do the deed. Ragsdale refers to it as a “blessing,” for instance.

“The choice (to stop the heart of her child, to stop his practicing breathing, to end the motion of his fingers and toes, to stop forever his rudimentary sleep/wake cycles, to flatline his brain activity) is the perogative of the pregnant woman, her husband and or her Doctor.”

Abortion is murder. I didn’t need to be a Christian to figure that one out, one embryology course took care of that.

Of course practically no one is “pro-abortion”, their stomach is turned by bits of bloody baby just like the rest of us. Problem is, they like the idea of “freedom” and the temporal advantages of not having another mouth to feed. Saying that one is not “pro-abortion” but would not want to restrict the “right” to intra-womb baby murder is a coward’s way out. They damn well know its wrong but do not have the conviction to actually do anything that might be perceived as “judging” anyone. Oh, the horror!

Party apparatchiks don’t get their own hands bloody, that’s what they have vodka-soaked ruffians in uniforms for.

“Col Perkins ain’t no grunt.”

You say grunt like it’s a bad thing.

Ed the Roman, formerly Naval Gunfire Officer of 3d Marines (Rein).

“I have been married to the same wonderful women for 55 years.” John! I didn’t know you were Mormon! And you’re NOT voting for Romney? I’m aghast!

Don Janousek
The use of idiomatic expressions are grammatically acceptable.

“Nobody, that I know is pro-abortion. Those that have expressed an opinion are pro-choice. The choice is the perogative of the pregnant woman, her husband and or her Doctor. Your use of the term pro-abortion is provoking and inflammatory.

John,

Regarding your comments above:

1. Your punctuation (,) is incorrect.

2. Your spelling (perogative [sic]) is incorrect.

3. Your posit that the choice is the “perogative [sic] of the pregnant woman, her husband” is incorrect in most, if not all, states. The husband has no say. And in many areas, neither do the parents of adolescent children who become pregnant.

4. How else would you characterize the term “pro-abortion” other than being for the termination of the life of a living being?

Best.

John,
Your reticence will not cut it. “A woman’s right to choose” sounds grand. But what it means is “A woman’s right to choose to kill the baby growing inside of her.” No “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts” about it.

I said no weasel words and you fell right into the typical avoidance trap.

I understand your “pro-life” position. I do not agree with it.

Fisherman.
I would be say thanks for the English lesson but then I would be lying.
Perogative is ok per the Urban Dictionary.

John – citing the “Urban Dictionary” in a paper would be like citing “Wikipedia”.

“F – Failing work that is unworthy of credit”.

Not acceptable.

My sister taught English. I’ve heard it all before. Ad nauseum

Matthew 7 And may God bless your sister.

“Nobody, that I know is pro-slavery. Those that have expressed an opinion are pro-choice. The choice is the perogative of the slave master, his overseer and or his slavertrader. Your use of the term pro-slavery is provoking and inflammatory.”

“Pro-Choice” advocate circa 1862

“These communities, by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: “We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to His creatures. [Applause.] Yes, gentlemen, to all His creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children and their children’s children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Nobody, that I know is pro-slavery. Those that have expressed an opinion are pro-choice. The choice is the perogative of the slave master, his overseer and or his slavertrader. Your use of the term pro-slavery is provoking and inflammatory.”

Change “perogative of the slave master, his overseer and or his slavetrader” to “perogative of the people living in a given state/territory” and you have the “popular sovereignty” position of Sen. Stephen A. Douglas in a nutshell. If anyone could be described as truly “pro choice” on slavery, it was him.

@ Donald R. McClarey
October 30, 2012 (and, of course, our resident troll, John)

See my previous contribution (at number 7) on this thread.

What is intellectually wrong with this statement?

“Nobody, that I know is pro-abortion. Those that have expressed an opinion are pro-choice, for the right to procure an abortion? Its intellectual banruptcy cam be deminstrate3d as follows: “Nobody, that I know is pro-murder. Those that have expressed an opinion are pro-choice to murder’”).

Ordinarily I don’t proofread comments here. This is a casual forum, and typing mistakes happen. Let us be generous. However, John, defending your spelling error with an appeal to something called Urban Dictionary is silly. “Prerogative” comes from two Latin roots, “prae”, before, and “rogare”, ask. The loss of the “r” is not just a streamlined modern spelling. It’s a mistake. The proper response is, “Oops.”

I considered it boorish to correct others spelling and grammar. The is not a test.

Certainly, John, but trying to pretend your inadvertent error was correct makes you look silly. If you’d left it alone, it was your critic who looked silly.

Katherine, get of your high horse. I understand that the only humor you get is ridicule.

You’re the one on the high horse, John. I’m even agreeing with you that the grammar and spelling criticism was petty! Sheesh.

John: When Don Janousek commented on your possible Mormon allegiance and you replied: “The use of idiomatic expressions are grammatically acceptable” you clearly missed his point: “women” is a plural noun. I think (hope?) that you meant “woman”.

And while comments on spelling and grammar are generally irrelevant to internet discussion, they do become relevant when the person who makes these rather elementary mistakes is claiming to be better informed and (presumably) more intelligent.

Sue Sims.
Your presumptions are groundless. I never question any ones intelligence. I question their conclusions and their sources.