Repukes continue their slimy "swiftboating" of Murtha (attack fundraising)

[jefferson_dem]

Check out this totally bogus feigned outrage ->

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee on Friday accused Democratic Rep. John Murtha of turning his anti-war stance into a fundraising ploy.

The statement from Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., came hours after Murtha sent an e-mail to Democratic supporters asking for donations to the party.

"I am saddened to see my friend from Pennsylvania, John Murtha, turn his widely respected positions on the war in Iraq into a fundraising ploy for House Democrats," Reynolds said in a statement.

<SNIP>

The e-mail from Murtha was distributed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - the Democratic counterpart to the NRCC.

"While this issue of war is neither a Democratic nor a Republican one, this need for new leadership in the House is clearly a party issue," Murtha said in the e-mail, which contained links to donate money.

:wow: /major sarcasm

A spokesman for Murtha did not immediately respond Friday afternoon to a request for comment.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MURTHA_FUNDRAISING?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=customwire.htm

[neuvocat]

1. This coming from the 911 party with the expensive plates

and all the campaigning by a man who hasn't done a single thing in 5 years about terrorism.

[PurpleChez]

2. The Rethugs draw from an inexhaustable well of hypocrisy.

[booley]

3. Didn't they contradict thier own spin?

haven't the repubs goen on and on about how the American people support them and the war? How the antiwar people are just "far left loonies"?

so when one of them accuse..."Democratic Rep. John Murtha of turning his anti-war stance into a fundraising ploy."..doesn't that imply that there are a large number of people willing to donate to an anti-war politician? That the anti-war "far left" is far larger and not so fringe as the repubs like to think?

Of course, this is taking repubs at thier word, which is fraught with problems of it's own.