GOP loses staunch supporter
Dallas Morning News
by Frank Schaeffer
11/02/06
I should be supporting [George] Allen. Instead, I'm leaving the party. I'm a Christian, a writer, a military parent and a registered Republican. On all those counts, I was disgusted by an e-mail I just received that's being circulated by campaign supporters of Republican George Allen, who's trying to retain his Senate seat in Virginia. The message goes like this: 'First, it was the Catholic priests, then it was Mark Foley, and now Jim Webb, whose sleazy novels discuss sex between very young teenagers. ...' Hmmm, sounds like a perverted pedophile to me! ... Democrat James Webb is a war hero and former Marine, wounded in Vietnam and winner of the Navy Cross. He was writing about class and military issues long before me and has articulated the issue of how the elites have dropped the ball on military service in his classic novel Fields of Fire. ... Mr. Webb's son is a Marine in Iraq. That's an uncommon fact in this era in which most political leaders' children act as if it is only right and proper that it's someone else's war to fight...
http://tinyurl.com/yyp2jx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Allen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley
by Frank Schaeffer
11/02/06
I should be supporting [George] Allen. Instead, I'm leaving the party. I'm a Christian, a writer, a military parent and a registered Republican. On all those counts, I was disgusted by an e-mail I just received that's being circulated by campaign supporters of Republican George Allen, who's trying to retain his Senate seat in Virginia. The message goes like this: 'First, it was the Catholic priests, then it was Mark Foley, and now Jim Webb, whose sleazy novels discuss sex between very young teenagers. ...' Hmmm, sounds like a perverted pedophile to me! ... Democrat James Webb is a war hero and former Marine, wounded in Vietnam and winner of the Navy Cross. He was writing about class and military issues long before me and has articulated the issue of how the elites have dropped the ball on military service in his classic novel Fields of Fire. ... Mr. Webb's son is a Marine in Iraq. That's an uncommon fact in this era in which most political leaders' children act as if it is only right and proper that it's someone else's war to fight...
http://tinyurl.com/yyp2jx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Allen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley
rudkla - 3. Nov, 18:22
