On out-Murtha'ing Murtha...

The Star Diaper has a piece about sundry DFL candidates who are vying to see who can out-Murtha Murtha:

Fifth District candidates differ on how, not whether, to pull out of Iraq

Voters will have to decide whether to send a messenger or a negotiator to Congress, political analysts say.

Even before state Rep. Keith Ellison won the DFL endorsement last spring for the Fifth Congressional District seat, a defining issue for his campaign was his demand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Now Ellison's challengers in the Sept. 12 primary have generated their own withdrawal proposals, competing on an issue crucial to voters in the Minneapolis-based district.

That means the upshot for Democrats voting in the primary is not whether a candidate proposes to pull troops out of Iraq but of when and how.

A fundamental question is whether any candidate could deliver on a withdrawal pledge.

So it's a foregone conclusion that the democrat party has become the party of surrender. A pretty serious game of chicken in a post-9/11 world. The thing about it is, the DFL has no friggen idea who they're dealing with:

Minneapolis City Council Member Paul Ostrow said that Democrats have an obligation to craft an exit strategy that would shield Iraq from a bloodbath after a U.S. pullout. Ostrow proposed that the Iraqi government be decentralized into three, semi-autonomous Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite regions. After that, he said, U.S. troops could come home in a year.

What the hell has Ostrow been smoking lately? Give me a break!!

Not to mention this tidbit:

Erlandson also accused Ellison of appearing recently with a supporter of the Palestinian group Hamas, which the United States considers a terrorist organization. Erlandson's aide said he was referring to Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington D.C., who attended an Ellison fundraiser last Friday in the Twin Cities sponsored by a group of Muslim businessmen.

Ibrahim Hooper, the council's spokesman, denounced Erlandson's remark: "It is unfortunate that a candidate for public office would stoop to anti-Muslim bigotry ... by using long-refuted smears. Neither the council nor Mr. Awad supports any terrorist group anywhere in the world."

O really, Ibrahim?

It still isn't safe to vote democrat.


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