Newt Gingrich has decided to open his mouth and firmly insert his foot by insulting many of Americas military veterans. Probably a bad move. Just ask Dick Morris. The veterans and active-duty military personnel who support Ron Paul are not the people you want to insult. Just last week Dick Morris made an ass of himself by claiming that no true patriot could support Ron Paul. The comment infuriated veterans across the country who support Dr. Paul and didnt appreciate being labeled unpatriotic by a chicken-hawk draft-dodger such as Dick. A letter writing campaign was launched by cvrp2012.com and the results were brutal. While CVRP forwarded the letters from veterans to Morris inbox we have yet to receive a response or an apology from Mr. Morris.
Now, another chicken-hawk has volunteered himself as a target, so to speak. On CNNs The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Mr. Gingrich had this to say: I think Ron Pauls views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.
Here we go again.
Mr. Gingrich, have you lost your damn mind? Ron Paul has more support among members of the military than any other candidate. In fact, he has more military support than all the other Republican candidates combined. By far.
You have just indirectly attacked many of the people who serve, and have served, this country with your idiotic remarks. You claim that we are indecent because we support Ron Paul, a fellow veteran, and the only candidate running for President who actually supports and defends the Constitution. The only candidate who actually has a strong conservative record of protecting civil liberties. The only candidate who wishes to use our military for its intended purpose- the defense of our nation- rather than flying us around the world defending corporate interests.
You should be ashamed of yourself, Newt.
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A cowardly chicken-hawk, such as yourself, who never served in the military and avoided being drafted during the Vietnam Conflict, yet seems almost giddy with the prospect of sending my brothers to die in an unnecessary war with Iran and God knows who else.
[sic] Im not quite sure how attacking a large segment of the military is supposed to help his campaign. [sic]
[Graph: 2011 Donations by Active Duty Military]