We're not supposed to bash Cotton because he's a vet, but John Kerry was fair game.

[pnwmom]

What short memories people have.

[pinboy3niner]

1. This Kerrytraveler agrees

[TwilightGardener]

2. The vet status of Tehran Tom is the whole reason the GOP shoved him out there

to show his ass. To deflect criticism of a really, really terrible and damaging stunt.

[pinboy3niner]

3. He was the raincoat for the chickenhawks. nt

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yup. Always assume the most cynical ploy with the GOP, and you'll never

be wrong.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Is this a tv thing on not bashing him

who's been saying this?

[pnwmom]

6. Jindal says Biden owes Cotton an apology, because Cotton "wore the boots in Iraq."

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/03/letter_from_47_gop_senators_to.html

Jindal tweeted this comment after Vice President Joe Biden denounced the letter, created by Iraq veteran and Harvard educated freshman Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark: "@VP Biden owes @SenTomCotton an apology. He wore the boots in Iraq. He's earned our attention, not your insults."

Here's what Biden said in the statement that generated Jindal's ire: "The decision to undercut our president and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a matter of principle. As a matter of policy, the letter and its authors have also offered no viable alternative to the diplomatic resolution with Iran that their letter seeks to undermine."

"It would be a dangerous mistake to scuttle a peaceful resolution, especially while diplomacy is still underway."

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. thanks.....Jindal

[turbinetree]

8. Cotton is

a jerk, who eposes the pro-life movement but turns right around and could have placed our citizens and the citizens of the five countries trying to work out a deal in Iran in danger and is a hypocrite right along with the 47% in the senate that are following the leader of the lemmings over the cliff, and for him to get a pass because he is a veteran don't think so, he is irresponsible and is a political hack that went to a meeting with the same companies and there lobbyists that sell and make weapons of mass destruction and to pad his reelection campaign coffers already, this speaks volumes on this mans character and his self interests, so his pro-life stand is full of holes, he doesn't care about life except if its not self serving for TOM COTTONS, greed

[freshwest]

9. There you go again! Some good plain talking there.

[Skittles]

11. he is not pro-life, he is anti-women

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. You just KNOW that "picking Cotton" had those racist assholes snickering.

[mylye2222]

12. John Kerry was 1) a real war hero and peace protester 2) not a Reich winger..

So of course it was "fair game " for this bunch of a $$ e $.

K&R.

[Cha]

13. What freaking purple bandaided Hypocrites they are.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. And look what they did to Tammy Duckworth

Almost non-stop bashing against a wounded vet.

[mercuryblues]

15. Max Cleland

When the repukes do it, they make sure they lie and smear. Because of this Cleland lost his election.

“Max Cleland should stop allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero who lost his limbs taking enemy fire on the battlefields of Vietnam,” she writes, claiming that he “lost three limbs in an accident during a routine non-combat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman …. Luckily for Cleland’s political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam.”

Denigrating Mr. Cleland became fashionable in Republican circles in the fall of 2002, when his opponents ran television commercials that flashed his face on the screen with Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. That ad offended The Gainesville Times , a daily newspaper in northeast Georgia, which called it misleading, offensive and “an irresponsible and repugnant attack on Cleland’s character and sense of patriotism.”


Read more at http://observer.com/2004/02/vile-ann-coulter-smears-a-war-hero/#ixzz3UAHJynPI

[Omaha Steve]

16. K&R!