Why are Republicans Supporting Chet Edwards?
Will the real Chet Edwards please stand up? This is a question I ask myself every two years. The only time we ever hear from him is when he is running for re-election. He sends out letters telling how he has supported President Bush in his war on terror and how he is spending money for us. Then, when he is re-elected, we will not hear from him for another two years. Chet makes me feel like a cheated harlot.
Some of my local Republicans from my home county of Grimes have caved in and are now supporting this liberal. A month before the primary election I read an article in the local paper how Chet Edwards was bringing money to Grimes County by paving county road 172. Okay?! So he throws money in our direction every two years, so what? All that says is that some of my Republican friends can be bought and very cheap buy at that.
Some of my other friends are supporting Chet Edwards on one issue: the military. Yeah, he seems to support the military, but there is more to the man than this single issue. On every other issue supported by conservatives, Chet leans far to the left. Chet Edwards is no Zell Miller. I would support Zell against just about any Republican candidate because of his conservatism. Edwards on the other hand is as liberal as they come. He supports abortion (even the barbaric partial birth abortion), he did not support President Bush’s tax cuts, he does not support gun rights protected by the Second Amendment, and he does not support America’s energy independence by drilling in ANWR. Let me make this perfectly clear; Chet Edwards is not a conservative.
Nancy Coppock at Jackalope’s Voice is one who does not support the ‘Chet Edwards supports our military’ mantra. I have to agree with her. Before the election Edwards acts like veterans are his date to the prom, afterwards he treats the them like a cheap date on a Friday night drinking binge.
The jackalope has made it clear that Chet Edwards (D) has hoodwinked our precious veterans into believing he actually cares about them. The truth is, Chet uses our veterans like a civil rights pimp to secure power and ensure his next election. Chet was there defending John Kerry (D) presidential candidate when the veterans that actually served with Kerry came out with the swift boat ads. Chet treated those veterans like they were partisan hacks presenting lies and distortions. In the last election, Chet participated in Wesley Clark’s forum on how to get Democrats elected. They weren’t going to get “swift boated” like John Kerry and actually have to address a difference of perception as to their necessity to serve the country! Chet gave a lesson on how to conduct a bare knuckles political brawl and bragged about not letting the opponent define him. Like the tenured government employee that he is, Chet was fighting back hard to preserve his own thick slab of bacon, while deceiving our veterans that it was their bacon he was saving.
Chet Edwards is for Chet Edwards, pure and simple. The man is so slick that he has convinced many Republicans that there is no difference between him and his opponent Van Taylor. In that regard, Chet has succeeded brilliantly.
The Democratic Party is so confident of a win for Chet Edwards in District 17; they are pulling money out of his race to place it in other more competitive districts. And why shouldn’t they, Edwards has so many conservatives who are supporting this liberal for no good reason. It is my hope these people will wake up from their self-induced haze to see what morons they really are. Edwards is against just about everything conservatives hold dear. Its time for Dictrict 17-TX to wakeup and see Chet Edwards for what he really is: a die-hard liberal.
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