Murtha Tears Karl Rove a New ONE!

Democratic Hawk John Murtha appeared on Tim Russert's "Meet the Press" today and he was BRILLIANT!! He was an authentic and passionate Hawk with Commonsense and a Heart! I LOVED IT!

He showed the tongue-tied and intimidated Democratic politicians in the Washington Beltway how it is DONE! He man-handled the Republican talking points, crushing them and then creating his own concoction with them.

Murtha's a leader. I would follow him even though I know less than nothing about Defense issues but I do know this: Congressman Murtha speaks authentically from the heart and with HONESTY about the realities on the ground that the American public has seen on television and from the mouths of our troops. That much I know.

He is the ONLY one I've heard - Republican or Democrat - that has come forward with an authentic message and plan on Iraq. Now, John Kerry just gave a speech on Iraq that was startling in its forthrightness - but this only made me more angry with him because it was the damn speech he should've given 2 years ago!

Anyway, let me make with the goods! Here's a transcript of video excerpt from today's "Meet the Press" when Murtha responds to Karl Rove's regurgitated "cut and run" accusation against Murtha and John Kerry in New Hampshire speech Rove gave a few days ago:

ROVE (video): Like too many Democrats, it strikes me they are ready to give the green light to go to war, but when it gets tough and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running. They may be with you at the first shots, but they are not going to be there for the last, tough battles. They are wrong and profoundly wrong in their approach.

Russert: Cutting and Running

MURTHA: He's in New Hampshire. He's making a political speech. He’s sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside-saying stay the course. That’s not a plan! I don't know what his military experience is, but that's a political statement. This is a policy difference between me and the White House. I disagree completely with what he's saying. We've got to change direction. You can't sit there in the air-conditioned office and tell troops carrying seventy pounds on their backs, inside these armored vessels-hit with IED's every day-seeing their friends blown up-their buddies blown up-and he says stay the course? Easy to say that from Washington, DC.

More from Blogger Rachel Sklar on how Murtha masterfully showed the Democrats how to beat the stuff out of Karl Rove, fake-swaggering Bush and the rest of ‘em.