The Left Has Gone Utterly Apoplectic Over GOP Campaign Ad

Photo courtesy:  Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal

The lefty websites are squealing in outrage over a campaign ad released yesterday by Republican senatorial candidate Allen Weh who is seeking to unseat New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall.  Political opponents are critical of the web-only ad implying it used a tragedy to promote his campaign.

Coverage of the ad by news outlets from the Washington Post to CNN quickly brought the New Mexico race to the national stage.

Weh is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.  He began his service as an enlisted Marine before being selected for Officer Candidates School. He served two tours in Vietnam and with the British Royal Marines in Malaysia. Colonel Weh was recalled to active duty during the Persian Gulf War, for the U.S. expedition into Somalia, and to serve as Chief of Staff of Marine Forces Pacific prior to retiring in 1997.

Currently, Udall is leading Weh in the Senate race. The Real Clear Politics polling average shows Udall leading Weh 53 percent to 37 percent.  Perhaps that will change.

All the hub-bub is over a blistering attack by Weh’s campaign on the lack of leadership of both The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer and Udall.  An audio clip of Obama promising to be dedicated to his job is interspersed with images of violence abroad and our semi-retired president on vacation.  A cropped image of American journalist James Foley’s murderer is part of the montage.

OBAMA:  You, you give me this office and in turn my fears, doubts, insecurities, foibles, need for sleep, vacations, leisure is gone. 

UDALL:  I know as far as I feel, this diplomatic path that we're on right now is a good one.  

OBAMA:  I’m giving myself to you and the American people should have no patience for whatever is going through your head because you’ve got a job to do.  

UDALL:  I know as far as I feel, this diplomatic path that we're on right now is a good one. 

The ad concludes with these words flashed on the screen:  “To change Washington, you must change your Senator.”

Udall’s campaign was quick to criticize the ad saying, "James Foley’s death is a tragedy, and to use his killer’s horrific image for personal gain in a campaign ad is reprehensible and appalling." 

Udall's campaign manager, Daniel Sena, said in a statement, "If Allen Weh wants to talk about the issues with New Mexico voters he should find a way to do it that is respectful and substantive. Using James Foley’s horrific and tragic death for shock value is offensive to Mr. Foley's family, New Mexico voters and the rest of our country."

“Out of respect for the Foley family, no picture of James Foley was used,” Weh’s campaign manager, Diego Espinoza, said in an email to Politico’s Morning Score. “Tom Udall’s feigned outrage over the inclusion of a now familiar image of this Jihadi terrorist, who is clearly the face of the evil that threatens our nation. Senator Udall’s comments about our diplomacy being ‘good’ reflect his naiveté and inexperience in matters of national security.”

In a telephone interview with Albuquerque's KRQE News 13, Weh said he stood by the ad.  “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. In fact, I think it serves the greater good.  You’ll note that no picture of Mr. Foley was ever in that film. None, ever.”

Late Monday night, Foley’s brother Michael, gave KRQE a statement saying his family had “no reaction” to Weh’s ad.  “His decision [to use the image] doesn’t affect the family.”

The reason Foley’s brother reacted in that fashion is because he is angry and believes the United States let his murdered brother down.  He alluded to the much trumpeted 'flawless' July 4 rescue mission for the captive reporter which failed when it raided the wrong base.

If you would like to contribute to Weh’s campaign to help restore leadership go here.

The fight against terrorism is ugly. You can't be squeamish when the security of #America is on the line. http://t.co/pHhELclFdy
— Allen for US Senate (@AllenWeh) August 26, 2014

And here's his "Freedom" ad

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If the scandal sheets like National Enquirer are correct (it’s possible given the fact that the rag got it right when they scorched John Edwards), Michelle O will be settling down in D.C. with the girls and her mother while The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer will “settle in his native Hawaii, where he’ll live with longtime pal” Bobby Titcomb who was arrested in an undercover prostitution bust in Honolulu in April 2011.

So, if The High Priestess of School Lunches divorces ‘Ol Jug Ears, what will she do with her time?

Tongues started wagging when Keith Koffler, veteran White House reporter and proprietor of White House Dossier wrote:

“Look out. First Lady Michelle Obama might just run for Senate from Illinois in 2016.” 

“How do I know? She’s raised her profile a lot, she’ll have pressure from Democrats to get in and pick up a GOP seat, and her own strong commitment to left wing values will help impel her to make the race—to continue to ‘make a difference.’”

He kicked it up a notch with his piece in the Opinion Section of Reuters.  Then Sally Kohn opined.

“Should Michelle Obama choose to run, she would be a formidable candidate in every way, from public speaking to fundraising to policy to media and more. But either way, just the fact that anyone is speculating sends a flattering signal to a beloved first lady who America would clearly like to keep in the public eye.”

Oh, Sally, bless your heart.  Beloved First Lady?  I’m throwing the bullshit flag on ya.

Remember when the New Nefertiti of the Windy City on the campaign trail in Madison, Wisconsin said this, “And let me tell you something—for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.  And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.  And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.”

Appearing on The O’Reilly Factor, Juan Williams fired off this comment.  "She's got the Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going.  Her instinct is to start with this ‘Blame America’, ‘I’m the victim’.  If that stuff starts to come out people will go bananas.  She’ll go from being the new Jackie O to something of an albatross.”

I’d like to go back to what our LGBT friend Sally Kohn said about Lady M’s formidability on policy. “Should Michelle Obama choose to run, she would be a formidable candidate in every way, from public speaking to fundraising to policy to media and more.” [Emphasis mine].

Recently, The High Priestess of School Lunches defended the USDA rules she championed, telling Congress, “The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids’ health. It’s unacceptable to me not just as First Lady, but as a mother.”

Amanda Radke wrote:

“However, the changes the First Lady is pushing on public schools don’t apply to her daughters Malia and Sasha, who attend a swanky private school that is exempt. In fact, the Obama girls reportedly are served foods not allowed on public school lunch menus; this includes foods like meatball subs, ice cream novelties, deviled egg salad, barbecued chicken wings, barbecued sliders, all natural beef nachos, baked three-cheese lasagna, pepperoni flatbread pizzas, cheese quesadillas, and chicken curry.”

Some kids even tweeted photos of their stomach-turning school lunches.

The Hypocrisy Meter blows up when you read the menu from just one of the State Dinners at the White House:  arugula with onion seed vinaigrette, red lentil soup with fresh cheese, roasted potato dumplings with tomato chutney, chick peas and okra, green curry prawns, collard greens with coconut aged basmati, pumpkin pie tart, pear tatin, whipped cream and caramel sauce, petit fours, cashew brittle, pecan pralines, passion fruit and vanilla gelees and chocolate dipped fruit.  Is it any wonder she has such a ginormous ba-donk-a-donk posterior?

When she starts talking like she's Gandhi, the overheated Left start dreaming of their dynasty.  We’ve seen this movie before.

Seven months before the 2012 general election at a “Bring Your Kids to Work” day event, the Wookiee answered a child’s question about her interest in running for president.  "Absolutely not. No.”

"Being president is a really hard job and it’s an important job," she said. "And when my husband is running for president, we’re right in there; we’re serving, too.  And I think that once his terms are over, we’ll go on to do other important things—because there are so many ways that you can help this country and the world, even if you’re not president of the United States."

"And I think one of the things you learn about yourself as you get older are what are your strengths and what are your interests.  And for me it’s other stuff that is not being the president. So I probably won’t run. But that’s a great question."

Now, here’s what The Insufferable Airhorn told ABC’s Kelly Ripa when she asked, "In 10 years from now, if Mrs. Obama turns to you and announces that she wants to run for office, what would your honest reaction be?"

"I would say, 'Where did you take my wife?  I was sure that there had been an alien body-snatching going on. One thing I can promise you is that Michelle will not run for office."

You forgot to add “PERIOD” there buddy.

One final thought, in her 1985 Princeton senior thesis entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community, we can look through the window of her bias wherein she scolds universities as being designed to cater socially and academically to whites.

Affirmative action eclipsed racial diversity.  Her thesis’ suppositional conclusion condemned other black alumni at Princeton because they identified with inclusive American culture more than they valued the color of their skin.

We were fooled and made a fool.  We’ve seen this movie before.  Have we learned nothing?