Challenger Vicky Hartzler has an interesting take on this week's vote on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. She says the fact that Skelton's opposition to the repeal was unsuccessful proves his weakness:
Republican congressional candidate Vicky Hartzler said U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton’s loss Thursday on a high profile gay lobby issue shows his weakness as a protector of the armed services.
Hartzler said, “I thought he was a student and admirer of military history. Why doesn’t he deploy some of those strategies on behalf of the troops and protect the military readiness of the greatest fighting force in the world? Where’s the trench warfare? Where’s storming the hill? Putting up his token resistance to the Pelosi-led repeal of DADT is a make or break issue for our national security.
“I guess we shouldn’t be surprised that he managed to lose, since this is his pattern with Nancy Pelosi. He repeatedly votes for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker, gives her the gavel, lets her ramrod her liberal agenda, yet acts surprised and regretful when liberal issues pass. As with today’s critical vote, he is powerless to win important battles when needed most. American’s future military strength and national security will be compromised by his failure today.
“Ike Skelton votes with Pelosi’s radical San Francisco agenda more than 90 percent of the time. On the rare occasions when he takes a Fourth District position, he manages to lose, as he lost today on the Obama-Pelosi plan to use the wartime military for a gay lobbying experiment.
Hartzler said today’s House vote is an ominous sign of things to come: “He can’t protect the troops from Pelosi’s radical social agenda. When deep liberal cuts for national security come to get money for social programs like ObamaCare, if Mr. Skelton is present to complain, Pelosi and Obama will do what they did today: walk over him like he doesn’t exist.
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Funny but it sounds to me as if DADT is the social experiment, not its repeal.
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