PA-08: Dishonorable Men

Yesterday Don Rumsfeld in a speech titled "Worst Man To Deliver Your Message Two Weeks Before An Election Ever" (more on that later) stated to war critics to back off and that honorable men were handling the situation.

Here's one of the honorable men of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania:

A new television ad paid for by the campaign of Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick, R-8, claims that Democrat Patrick Murphy has lied about his employment as a federal prosecutor in New York.

Murphy called the ad “a lie” and “shameful” and demanded that his political opponent pull the ad from the airwaves; Mike Conallen, Fitzpatrick’s chief of staff, refused.

“It’s a desperate and false ad from a flailing campaign,” Murphy said Tuesday. “Mike Fitzpatrick is a liar and a coward.”

According to court documents provided by Murphy’s campaign and an interview with one of Murphy’s former superiors, Murphy did prosecute cases in New York involving drugs, theft, assault and sexual molestation.

It's simply a blatant and outright lie. Patrick Murphy was appointed to that position and Fitzpatrick knows it. His entire campaign has been one big smear. There are quite a lot of them these days, but this coming from my hometown district, on top of the Swift-boating about Murphy's military record, is personally disgraceful. And Murphy was right to call him a liar and a coward right to his face during a debate.

I don't think we've ever had decent representation in Washington from Bucks County. There's finally a shot at selecting someone honorable. Unlike these knaves and fools that use personal attacks because they have literally no record on which to run.