The Silence Is Deafening
That silence you hear is coming from the Minnesota Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Mark Dayton, whose main claim to fame was in shutting down his Washington office because he claimed that he’d heard of new terrorist threats just prior to last November’s elections. That was news to Washington’s mayor Anthony Williams and House delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Here’s a portion of Mark Kennedy’s statement on the matter:
It’s been nearly two full days since Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean, the head of the Democrat party said the “idea that we’re going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,” and yet there has been no response from the DFL candidates running for Senate in Minnesota.
“It is beyond baffling that Patty Wetterling, Amy Klobuchar and Ford Bell have not been asked whether they agree with the leader of their party,” said Pat Shortridge, campaign manager for Mark Kennedy’s U.S. Senate campaign. “Democrats have been pounding the drum of ‘immediate withdrawal’ for weeks and now the Chairman of the DNC says the war can’t be won; yet these candidates refuse to say where they stand. The silence has been deafening and it’s long past time for these Senate candidates to tell Minnesotans where they stand on perhaps the defining issue of this Senate campaign.”
Frankly, I can’t wait to hear the set of answers from this crowd. Their answers likely will be more nuanced than a U.N. document and will be more than evasive and less than revealing.
Minnesotans deserve to know more about where Wetterling, Klobuchar and Bell stand on this life and death issue. If they’re evasive on this answer, they should be utterly rejected at the polls next November. We demand far more than that from our elected officials.
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing
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