Yup, I will hold my nose and vote against Senator Kerry for the first time (even voted fer president)!
Hey, when you have two members of the same party (the fascista war party), why not vote for the committed, enthusiastic fascist rather than some staid elite whose forgotten whence he came from (Vietnam)?
Also see: Kerry's Republican Opponent a CIA Agent
Of course, if there is a THIRD PARTY on the ballot (any third party), I will be VOTING THAT WAY!!!
"Kerry foe's dossier spans films, 9/11 hearing" by John C. Drake, Globe Staff | October 24, 2008
Republican Jeff Beatty says he has been compared to Jack Bauer of Fox TV's "24," the antiterrorism agent who rushes headlong across the small screen to foil evil networks intent on destroying America.
Now, after a career providing antiterrorism advice to governments and Hollywood, the Army veteran and former CIA agent has embarked on the ultimate long-shot mission: toppling US Senator John F. Kerry. Beatty is hoping he can eat into the 32-point advantage Kerry had in a recent Rasmussen poll.
Beatty was an ROTC member at Rutgers and joined the Army after graduating with a sociology degree in 1974. He was awarded a Purple Heart after taking part in the 1983 rescue of American medical students taken hostage in Grenada, a Delta Force operation in which the Black Hawk helicopter he was riding in was shot down. In the run-up to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he served as a special adviser to the FBI's hostage rescue team. And for seven years until 1992, he conducted counterterrorism training and operations as a CIA agent based in the Middle East and Europe.
Well, that is sure giving me pause. It really doesn't matter whom you vote for, does it? See: Connecticut's Shays Rebellion
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"When I got out [of the CIA], I was a little frustrated that I didn't think we were as serious about preventing terrorism as we ought to be, so I decided that I would go form my own business and try to consult [for] people, people who we thought were likely targets," Beatty said.
As a consultant, he says, he issued dire warnings about some of the country's worst terrorist attacks. As an adviser to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Beatty said, he warned organizers that the openness of Centennial Olympic Park left them vulnerable to a package-bomb attack that could injure dozens. It did happen, on July 27, 1996. And before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Beatty warned that a terrorist attack was likely, saying in a January 2000 Boston Herald op-ed: "When the terrorist improves his logistics to be as effective as the drug smuggler, more death will come across our borders."
Now I'm really not liking him much at all!!! CUI BONO? A CIA MAN?
His media savvy and antiterrorism expertise landed him on CNN the afternoon of 9/11 and increased demand among government agencies for his consulting work. In October 2001, he testified at a US Senate hearing on protecting mass transit systems from terrorist attacks, winning public praise from Senator Joe Biden, now the Democratic nominee for vice president.
Maybe I'll just leave the damn spot blank -- or write in a name.
Beatty's Hollywood work, he said, led to an October 2001 meeting in California in which directors like Oliver Stone and Dick Wolf dreamed up nightmare terrorism scenarios for the government to plan for at an Army-funded research center.
Gee, that SURE is ODD that "W's nemesis" -- and allegedly the elitists -- would be HELPING the MILITARY come up with "TERROR" SCENARIOS -- especially in light of Stone's nearly UNCRITICAL PORTRAYAL of 9/11 in "World Trade Center."
Nope, won't be going to see W. The last movie I saw was this one, and it has been so under-appreciated that I won't pay to see a Hollywood movie anymore.
Despite a military and professional career defined by national security issues, Beatty is also trying to speak to voters' economic worries by criticizing Kerry's personal wealth. A critic of the federal bailout package, he has hit the Kerry family's financial investments in insurance giant AIG, which has received its own bailout. Kerry said a firm handling his wife's finances once placed some of her assets in AIG stock but that the family no longer has a stake in the troubled insurance giant.
Yup, I know about Kerry's conflict of interest!
Beatty generally holds close to traditional Republican positions on domestic issues: He opposes abortion, supports gun rights protection, backs giving parents school choice through vouchers, and wants to reduce income taxes. He also supports Question 1 on the November ballot in Massachusetts, which would repeal the state income tax.
"I want to see everybody get a tax cut," he said, suggesting he could find significant cost savings in the federal government's Homeland Security budget to help pay for tax reductions. "We've got to do the [Barack] Obama tax cuts and do the Bush tax cuts."
The guy is saying the right things, but that's all it is -- talk! Sorry, but the litmus test is 9/11, and this is a guy who buys in and is profiting from the LIE!! Thumbs down!
But his campaign - directed by a small coterie of paid advisers and Cape Cod-area volunteers often working out of the candidate's home - is largely on its own, with the cash-strapped party offering only token support. Beatty had $58,000 in his campaign account this week, compared with Kerry's $5.3 million, the Associated Press reported yesterday.
The money tells you something right there!
He will get another shot at Kerry in a debate on Oct. 27, on WTKK-FM. --more--"
I'll be sure to miss it.
