Via Gerry Daly, we see that Max Cleland and the Invulnerable Meme are back:
Max Cleland was steamed. The more he spoke, the more his voice grew tense, the more his words grew sharp.
“I’m disgusted,” he said.
Cleland, a former U.S. senator from Georgia and disabled and decorated Vietnam War veteran, was happy yesterday to be back in New Jersey, where he began his life in the Army in 1966 at Fort Monmouth.
But he wasn’t happy with the Bush administration and Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Forrester.
On a tour through New Jersey that started in Edgewater Park and ended in Hamilton, Cleland – who lost his two legs and right arm in Vietnam, but saw his patriotism questioned in a famous 2002 campaign that he lost – decried Bush administration policies as he campaigned for Democratic gubernatorial candidate U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine and the Assembly Democrats.
Max Cleland never had his patriotism questioned. He had his judgement questioned. You can argue the ads were unfair in that manner, but they never questioned his patriotism. I am really sick of discussing this, so I will just hand the baton to Ricky, who has ably handled this repeatedly.