Patriotic Federalist

Justice Delayed But Not Denied: Kerry Ally Stripped of Silver Star

In 1992, Capt. Wade Sanders was awarded the Silver Star for actions in Vietnam years earlier. In 2004, he introduced Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry at that year’s convention and was a big supporter throughout the campaign. As we all know, a group of some 200 fellow Swift Boat veterans eventually helped sink Kerry’s presidential campaign by blowing up the Vietnam “war hero” facade that the Massachusetts senator had meticulously and misleadingly put forth. Contrary to Kerry’s boasting, he committed treason in Vietnam. Sanders was a lead attack dog for Kerry, and he worked to tarnish the Swifties’ reputations, slandering them as “Nazi propagandists.”

In a case of poetic justice, the Navy recently stripped Sanders of his honor. The Navy’s tersely worded statement indicated that “subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself” led to the revocation of his Silver Star. Sanders, by the way, is also serving 37 months for possession of child pornography, and we doubt that helped his case. He claimed it was research for a book he was writing.

Kerry made quite the issue of his military record, using it as both a crutch and a stick throughout his campaign. How ironic that one of his lead witnesses was found to be so wanting in character. Kerry should hope the Navy doesn’t come after him, too.

via Digest for Friday, July 29, 2011 – Editions – PatriotPost.US.

Democrats Love Reagan?Among all the other shenanigans taking place in Washington, Democrats have now attempted to rewrite history and co-opt Ronald Reagan’s legacy. In their fight to raise the debt ceiling, House Democrats released a television ad with selective clips of a 1982 Ronald Reagan radio address warning of the fiscal disaster that would come from a failure to raise the debt ceiling. Of course they neglected to mention that the 1983 ceiling was $3 trillion, a bit below the current $14.3 trillion. Democrats gleefully point out that Reagan agreed to raise taxes at the time. The tax hike rolled back some of Reagan’s historic 1981 tax cut, and he regretted the decision for the rest of his presidency. Democrats reneged on their promise to cut $3 spent for every $1 raised, and instead used the tax revenue to increase spending. In other words, they lied. You won’t see that in the ad, nor will you hear what Reagan said later in the same speech: “Every time Congress increases taxes, the deficit does not decrease, spending increases.” Democrats would love history to repeat itself.The debt has quintupled since the Reagan presidency, and since that time Democrats have constantly smeared his legacy. But now, even Obama quotes the former president in his attempt to push his ideological agenda of an all-encompassing federal government. We would rejoice if our friends on the Left had truly come to respect Reagan, but when such comments are weighed against the vitriolic words Obama has used against the GOP in recent weeks, it’s more than apparent that Democrats are adulterating Reagan’s record for their own political gain.

via Digest for Friday, July 29, 2011 – Editions – PatriotPost.US.