JASON ALTMIRE NEEDS OUR HELP!!

[RangerOne]

He's trailing Bush-bot Mellisa Hart by four points. I just submitted this to the Post-Gazette:

Melissa Hart and her staff have done her constituents proud again. Obviously, when faced with a group of law abiding elders armed to the teeth with doughnuts and protesting the overpriced Medicade Plan B fiasco, there’s only one thing to do: Take out your decoder rings, grab you’re GOP handbook and follow the instructions under the section: What would Karl Rove do? Are they here to support or protest? If the answer is support, invite them in, ask them if they would like to make a contribution, and call the press. If it’s a protest, call the cops, have them arrested and hope the FBI finds the group’s connections to Al-Qaeda. Hearsay evidence will be provided later. Whatever you do, don’t allow an honest debate about the issue.

I’m so tired of this Republican playbook and the legislators like Mrs. Hart who support it without conscious (see her 93% record of voting with Mr. Bush). They all pay such wonderful lip service to the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In reality, dissent earns you a good smearing, loss of employment, entry on the no-fly list, or arrest.

I haven’t been this proud of her since she got up on the House floor and showed everybody her ignorance of stem cell research during the aftermath of the failed legislation. In this adventure, Mrs. Hart used debunked and falsified research to support the President’s veto. Maybe she didn’t read all of it, or understand it, or maybe she was using that other favorite Republican strategy: Taking a seemingly moral stand in a fictional debate against an opponent that doesn’t exist. (A.K.A.: the straw-man tactic).

Remember, this is the same Congresswoman who was quoted earlier this year as not being aware that any of her constituents had issues with the Iraq War. From any angle, this speaks volumes about her relationship (or lack thereof) with the electorate.

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1. I think this got lost.... Will kick

I like Altmire - we had some threads up for him yesterday.