If you were as angry as you should have been when Mike Fitzpatrick launched his swiftboating campaign of Patrick Murphy, they you're going to love this ad that Team Murphy put together in response.
I can't believe that anyone would think it's a smart move to call into question Murphy's service a) after what the Dems clearly learned from the 2004 election and b) when their own military service extends to the Boy Scouts. But Fitzpatrick did it and he deserves to see this ad run during every commercial break on network and cable tv until Murphy takes office in January.
On the flipside, I'll never understand why Murphy listened to whoever told him that it would be a good idea to support torture and the rending of Habeas Corpus - especially after he gave such a good answer to that question during a debate earlier that week, that Fitzpatrick could only pretend to agree with him. Such a good answer that I hear that it's being handed out at the campaign office if you go in there asking about the candidate's position on torture, Habeas Corpus and the MCA. I say "pretend to agree" because in his answer Fitzpatrick did invoke St. McCain author of the Great Torture Compromise, which was code for "You people are so stupid, I can say just about anything and you won't understand me. Will you? You don't even know what I'm saying now."
What a mess. Get the goddamn consultants out of politics and maybe there will be some hope for this country.
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