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Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: Ashburn guy ()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:18AM

David Ramadan, who didn't call out Michele Bachmann when she referenced him as a Muslim government infiltrator, calls out Howie Lind for mischaracterizing Barbara Comstock! Howie fights back, and then other Republicans tell Howie to not criticizing Republicans!

The goofiness continues.


http://www.loudountimes.com/news/article/virginia_gop_leaders_demand_apology_from_lind_ask_him_to_consider_why432

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: Howie Responds ()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:27AM

Dear Speaker Howell, et al.

I am in receipt of your letter and welcome the opportunity to discuss the facts outlined in my most recent radio commercial.

First, let’s talk about everything in the ad you did not question.

Establishment Republicans like John Boehner and Eric Cantor who hate the Tea Party and support Illegal Alien Amnesty are behind Barbara Comstock’s campaign.
Barbara Comstock will be their rubber stamp in Washington.
Republicans are demanding conservative leaders who will stand up for what we believe.
I want Republicans to fight Obama’s Socialism, not enable it.
The only line in the commercial with which you have an issue is the sentence “Comstock’s endorsed McAuliffe’s Medicaid Expansion and promises to vote for it. It’s right on her website.”

Now actually it isn’t anymore. Delegate Comstock’s staff scrubbed it off her page once these ads began running. I don’t need to send you copies of the “before” and “after” screenshots to explain that the statement that “Comstock’s endorsed McAuliffe’s Medicaid Expansion” and “promises to vote for it” are true.

If this is not true, then Delegate Comstock owes voters an explanation of why she changed her website and what kind of “expansion” of Medicaid she was talking about on her website.

I don’t really care how many meaningless party line votes are taken “opposing” expanding Medicaid here in Virginia, there’s no doubt that Delegate Comstock will vote for this expansion if her ambiguous vague “reforms” are met, or even just promised.

I said in my commercial that Republicans are demanding conservative leaders who will stand up for what we believe. I wish Delegate Comstock would take a stand and say why she said she wanted to expand Medicaid (if “reforms” are “implemented”) as recently as Sunday night and suddenly doesn’t want to expand it five days later.

Everyone reading this letter knows that whether Barbara Comstock wins or loses on April 26th, she will “study” the issue and determine, as you will, that sufficient “reforms” have been promised so that Medicaid could be expanded.

And why? Because some kind of irrational fear of voter backlash against a government “shutdown.” I call this “gun to the head politics.” And you, Sir, are in the perfect position from preventing it from happening right now in Virginia.

It’s time for leadership.

Now please let me address the points in your letter.

Your statements about “disregard for the truth” and “false, negative attacks” have been disproven above.
Delegate Comstock’s party-line votes against Medicaid Expansion have nothing to do with what she had up on her website for months up until my ad began airing on Monday morning. My commercial is based on the words on her website. How she can be a “stalwart” on this issue when her own website says she is ready and willing to “expand Medicaid”
I object to your inference that I am somehow a “racist” for objecting to one person, whose preference for Delegate Comstock is well known, from being on the panel and it’s unfortunate that the leaders of my party would engage in such petty identity politics in an effort to make some kind of point.
If anyone owes anyone an apology Mr. Speaker, it’s you. Your own personal actions of running candidates who promised to be anti-tax “conservatives” and then who voted with you for the largest tax hike in state history – one even bigger than the Mark Warner 2004 tax increase, destroyed the Republican brand and are largely responsible for the first statewide Democratic sweep in a generation.
While we’re on the topic of false statements, Mr. Speaker, I would like to address another matter you may not be as familiar with.

The Washington Times earlier this week exposed Delegate Comstock’s decision to vote in the February 12, 2008 Democratic Primary for President and her vote, according to her own admission, for Barack Obama.

Delegate Comstock said her vote was in support of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” (Washington Times, 4/7/14) and was repeated in a statement emailed to reporters (Washington Post 4/10/14).

Only there’s a few problems here.

Rush Limbaugh announced “Operation Chaos” three weeks AFTER the Virginia Primary, once Hillary Clinton had lost eleven contests in a row, including Wisconsin and Hawaii on February NINETEENTH.
Limbaugh urged his listeners to crossover in states where that was allowed to vote for HILLARY CLINTON for President.
Yet Delegate Comstock said she voted in the Democratic Primary to support BARACK OBAMA.
So here’s what we have. Delegate Comstock outlined on her website the conditions she would support Medicaid Expansion. Then, when her position was exposed, she rewrote her site with the proper campaign-approved lie.

Then she made misstatements again by trying to say her vote in the Democratic Primary was about “Operation Chaos” when in fact the phrase didn’t even exist on February TWELFTH 2008 and concerned votes for HILLARY CLINTON and NOT Barack Obama.

So Mr. Speaker I am now going to request you do the honorable thing and apologize to me for your false accusations and seriously review why you are interfering in a race that last I checked you cannot vote in.

It is your tactics and actions that are causing actual harm to fellow Republicans. Ken Cuccinelli, E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain are good men who were brought down last year because Republicans like you made a conscious decision to sell out on taxes.

Frankly I resent being lectured by people responsible for this tax hike that has put us in the predicament we are in today, with Terry McAuliffe as Governor.

Thank you for your concern about my campaign. Rest assured this is not going away. Everything you’ve just read will be in my next ad because everything I’ve said is true, unlike what Delegate Comstock has said on the issues above.

Republicans are fed up with enabling people out to destroy our country. This year we are fighting back.

Sincerely,

Howie Lind

Republican for Congress



P.S.: It’s not “Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment.” It was created by California GOP chair Gaylord Parkinson in response to personal attacks against Reagan by his primary opponent, former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher. Reagan “followed” it until Gerald Ford beat him in four primaries in 1976. Richard Viguerie just wrote an excellent piece about how The Gipper turned it around in North Carolina by telling the truth about Gerald Ford. The rest is history.

P.P.S.: I notice the only time some people ever “quote” Ronald Reagan is this. And it’s interesting the only time they ever “quote” Reagan, they’re not even quoting him!

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: interesting ()
Date: April 15, 2014 10:38AM

I find it interesting that Howie Lind has a phone number on his website to contact his campaign. Barbara Comstock has no campaign phone number available to the common folk.

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: Short and Chubby Goatee ()
Date: April 15, 2014 11:55AM

David Ramadan is a joke. He's also an asshole.

Comstock is as batshit crazy as Palin and Bachmann combined, so Lind is in the right for his rant here.

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: RangerRikki ()
Date: April 15, 2014 02:31PM

Howie Lind = complete Fruit Loop.

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: Debbie Downer Democrat XDD ()
Date: April 15, 2014 06:18PM

Mr. Lind is quite an interesting individual. Actually, in this particular campaign there is a lot of mud being tossed by many of the players.

It's even better over in the 11th with Mr. Geddes and his bullying.

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: Karl Marx ()
Date: April 15, 2014 11:49PM

Damn, you clowns really should sell tickets to this three ring circus you call a party. I for one would pay good money (taxed from the good folk of Loudoun County, of course) to watch you self-immolate.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to my er his needs.

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Re: Howie Lind calls out Comstock, other Republicans call out Lind!
Posted by: Howie Lind Fan ()
Date: April 17, 2014 10:29AM


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