Democrats think Pete Hegseth is really weird. Imagine that!By Rich Kozlovich
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On Friday, November 29, 2024 I published this piece, What About Pete?,
and it was hit a whole lot more than I expected. That meant to me Pete
Hegseth as SecDef was an issue that resonated with the nation. And now
after his hearing we should ask: How did Pete Hegseth perform?
He
was greeted by a round of applause as he entered the chamber, and gave
his opening remarks, with interruptions from Democrat activists, was
questioned over allegations of "sexual assault, alcoholism,
and mishandling of finances", which he had to respond to over and over
again as Senators keep repeating what Sen. Jim Banks called BS anonymous accusations, and as for their claims about his drinking habits, Sen. Markwayne Mullin called his accusers hypocrites asking ‘How Many Senators Have Showed Up Drunk to Vote at Night’.
Hegseth came out swinging against
what he called, and I think legitimately so, an orchestrated smear
campaign the Pravda media threw up against him saying:
“A small handful of anonymous sources were allowed to drive a smear
campaign and agenda about me, because our left wing media in America
today, sadly, doesn’t care about the truth. All they were out to do
[was] to destroy me. And why do they want to destroy me? Because I’m a
change agent and a threat to them, because Donald Trump was willing to
choose me, to empower me, to bring the Defense Department back to what
it really should be, which is war fighting,”
As for this blatantly false issue of racism, and White Supremacy being rampant in the military, he dealt with that easily and intelligently, which must have driven the Democrats crazy and they acted that way with double standards, manufactured outrage and smears. That's all the Democrats have, and that's all they offered.
- Sen. Mark Kelly claims he doesn't have the qualifications to be SecDef, and repeats all the smears, which were repeated regularly.
- Senator Mazie Hirono who has no fear her membership in the Club For the Galacticly Stupid will be revoked.
- Tim Kaine’s line of questioning
indicates he has a strong foundational Judaic/Christian moral code,
except he was running to be Hillary's Vice President, so that confirms
the only time leftists think that code is of value is when they can use
it against their adversaries.
- Gillibrand lost her mind outraged that Pete wouldn't want mothers serving on the front lines.
- Pocahontas Warren looked like a fool and was roundly laughed at by the audience.
- The one I really liked best was stolen valor Senator Blumenthal who claims Pete is so unqualified,’ it’s almost a ‘joke’.
So, according to the stolen valor Senator a 44 year old ... legitimate....combat veteran officer, serving in Iraq and Afghanistan was "a joke" who:
Earned the "Bronze
Star.[he's authorized] to wear the Joint Service
Commendation Medal, two Army Commendation Medals, three Army Reserve
Components Achievement Medals, the National Defense Service Medal with a
Bronze Service Star, an Afghanistan Campaign Medal with two campaign
stars, an Iraq Campaign Medal with two campaign stars, the Global War on
Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service
Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with “M” Device, the Army Service
Ribbon, two Overseas Service Ribbons, the D.C. National Guard Emergency
Service Ribbon, a NATO Medal, a Joint Meritorious Unit Award, a Combat
Infantryman Badge, and an Expert Infantryman Badge.
A
retired a major, who refers to himself as a recovering neocon now
believing invading Iraq was a mistake with critical insights on
weapons procurement, training, DEI insanity, planning, and more.
But
according to Blumenthal he's "a joke". Blumenthal was a military
disgrace, he's a disgrace as a Senator and as a human being. As
Patricia McCarthy argues, Democrats on the Armed Services Committee have seriously humiliated themselves, saying:
All the Democrats on that panel disgraced themselves. Each came with
a planned attack, their scripts filled with smears that have been
debunked and hypotheticals that had no bearing on defense policy. They
hammered him with personal attacks, disparaged his rather spectacular
résumé, and asked questions that they then refused to let him
answer. They were all about getting sound bites for the likes of Joy
Reid and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, who never care about facts or the
truth. Their plan was to humiliate and destroy him despite his obvious
qualifications. What they actually did, however, was show their own true
colors. This is a cabal of contemptible people.
It's well known that rules are just for Republicans, not for Democrats, so they tried to change the hearing rules to accommodate their schemes. That dog just won't hunt now, but what must have really made them nuts is when Hegseth's FBI background check was submitted to the Senate it contained one word that must have crushed their most ardent dream of destroying him. That word was, “unremarkable.”
On the other hand what we saw in his favor was "remarkable". Hundreds of Navy SEAL, veterans, Green Berets, and other branches marched to D.C. to publicly support him. He's considered to be an incredibly talented, battle-proven leader’, whereas there's absolutely no excuse for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal General Austin oversaw. An absolute failure as SecDef the entire Democrat party praises even now.
America’s military is in trouble
and the reason for that is the left has infected the military with a
"focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion" which openly and
deliberately works at:
"reducing the number of white male officers a priority.
Racial quotas not only damage the ability of the military to promote
the best and brightest to the highest ranks, but they also demoralize
those who either didn’t get a promotion and those who serve under
commanders who they may now wonder whether or not they got their
positions on their merits."
Noel Wiliams asks, "Who has come out looking better: the future SecDef, or the intemperate senators who grilled him?
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