Blumenthal’s Vietnam Problem
The excellent ship Blumenthal is punched and in flames, clearly, by the New York Times investigation of his misstatements of his military support.
Richard Blumenthal served in the Marine Corps Reserves, right after obtaining numerous deferments, the paper reports. But he never served in Vietnam, as he has stated at least two times and intimated at other people.
It’s a poor story for your Blumenthal campaign, precisely simply because it adds a thick streak of tarnish to what had seemed pure sterling in his record, even for those that opposed his politics. Blumenthal, by the grunt and grumble of Hartford, is generally witnessed as almost annoyingly honest, the irksome Gallant to some state of electoral Goofuses. His cause for ridicule is his propensity to hurl himself in front of cameras, not a propensity to lie once he gets himself there.
That this is terribly negative news for the Blumenthal campaign is obvious from the statements of Republican rivals like Rob Simmons (a Vietnam veteran within the traditional sense) and Linda McMahon, whose campaign gleefully took credit Monday night for planting the video of Blumenthal stating he had served in Vietnam while using Occasions.
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