If that isn’t the biggest line of B.S. I’ve ever heard I don’t know what is.
To me, honesty seems to be one of those “moral values” the far-right Republicans like Vernon Robinson always want to blabber about. I find it extremely hilarious that Mr. Moral Values of North Carolina is now forgetting completely about honesty and truth.
Robinson’s latest ad claims that Congressman Brad Miller voted to “pay for sex” but not to provide money for military body armor. FactCheck.org sets the record straight (no pun intended, lol):
Robinson’s ad asks, “What kind of Congressman would try to deny our soldiers the body armor they need to save their lives?” and then goes on to say Miller “did not vote for the appropriations to pay for improved body armor”
It’s true that Miller missed the October 2003 vote on an $87-billion supplemental appropriations measure for Iraq and Afghanistan that included $300 million for body armor. The ad fails to mention that Miller was on his way to Iraq at the time to visit the troops personally. More to the point, however, is that it is simply false to claim that Miller tried to “deny” body armor to anybody. As we said before, by the time of this vote the Pentagon was buying every piece of modern body armor that suppliers could produce using existing funds.
All I want to know is why Vernon Robinson is straight-up lying to the people he seems to want to represent in Congress. This just doesn’t seem like a good way of going about getting people on your side. Everyone already thinks politicians are nothing but a pack of liars and cheats and Robinson is just proving that point to folks.
As much as he might go around saying how important “moral values” are to him, the fact is that Vernon Robinson could care less about any type of values whatsoever, especially honesty. I’d dare to say that Robinson doesn’t know jack about “values.” All he is interested in is the spotlight. All he is interested in is himself. Does he care about you or me or any other North Carolinian? Absolutely Not.
Vernon Robinson is evil incarnate… for real. Don’t let him fool you with his jibe about “moral values;” he’s already proven he is a liar… Liars aren’t “moral” and liars don’t deserve any votes or support from the people.
If North Carolinians really are fed up with dishonesty and corruption in government, then they had better pay close attention to Vernon Robinson and make sure he gets this message this time around: We don’t want you, We don’t need you, Go back to where ever it is you came from and take your lying, dishonesty and sex-obsessed mind back with you.
You think he’d get the message by now… How many campaigns has he run and lost? Man… he’s starting to look like Ada Fischer, the always-running, always-losing non-candidate. Like Fisher, Robinson needs to awake to the truth: No, you will not win next year. No one wants you. Go away!
Robinson claims Miller is “out of touch” and that he will soon “be out of Congress.” The only person “out of touch” is Robinson. Hello! Dumbass! Who is the one isn’t even in office and can’t get elected?! Seems like Robinson is the one who is “out of touch” and “out of office.”
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September 29th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
I’ll agree on all of the above, except for one small point (and you’ve probably already seen this argument from me on at least two blogs) –
The body armor thing was not a bad issue to be running spots on, nor was it immoral in my opinion. Vernon was running an attack campaign from day one, so that’s what people are now expecting from him. Personally, I would have justaposed the whole “I’m a veteran” thing with “Brad didn’t vote for body armor.” He probably could have gained a few points with it.
I’m not going to get into it again on here, but you can read why I think this issue could have helped him over on Ed Cone’s blog.
You know full well I’m not a Vernon sympathizer, but in all honesty, this could have worked in his favor if his idiot campaign manager hadn’t let him create this insane ad. And by the way, he’s different from Dr. Fischer in that I think he believes he’ll actually win one some day.
September 29th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Um, Ryan, you think the not-voting-for-body-armor-thing was a legitimate issue? Did you miss this:
It’s true that Miller missed the October 2003 vote on an $87-billion supplemental appropriations measure for Iraq and Afghanistan that included $300 million for body armor. The ad fails to mention that Miller was on his way to Iraq at the time to visit the troops personally.
September 29th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
Like I said, Roch, read my comments on Ed’s post, I’ve got data to prove it’s a legitimate issue.
September 30th, 2006 at 4:42 pm
Sorry, Ryan, you’ll have to spell it out for me because the only “data” I see you citing on Ed’s blog is from an opinion poll that asks people if they’d be less likely to vote for Miller if they knew he voted against body armor.
Since Miller didn’t vote against funding body armor and since the vote for it he missed because he was on his way to visit soldiers in Iraq, spell it out for me: how is this a “legitimate issue?”
September 30th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
I kinda agree with Roch here Ryan… He didn’t “not vote for it” (implying he voted against it)… He simply missed the vote because he was visiting them.
October 1st, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Honestly, Matt, I’m surprised that your wasting space on your blog to talk about Robinson. Everyone but his self knows that he is not going to win. People talking about him is only giving him what he wants, attention. I think that the best thing for all would be to not even dignify him nor his ads with any type of commentary and keep letting the out-of-staters throw away their money on a useless campaign.