Memorial Day Hypocrisy from Mike Castle
Not like this hypocrisy is a new behavior or anything.
On Castle’s website, he posts up the obligatory Memorial Day salute to men and women in uniform. This is the hypocrisy:
In putting on the uniform day in and day out, the men and women of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy put everything on the line in order to protect the many freedoms, rights and liberties we hold dear.
This is from a man who voted the way his party wanted — against the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. From a man who specifically voted against the freedom of gay and lesbian Americans to be able to serve their country without having to live with the bigotry and fear of a few. These soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines are not engaged in protecting freedom, rights, and liberties for everybody *except* gay people. They are there for All Americans and specifically excepting gay and lesbian Americans from being able to openly serve is not about freedoms,rights or liberties. Which,of course, wasn’t the point of Castle’s DADT NO vote in the first place. His vote was about supporting his party. Which is specifically looking for ways to display and capitalize on their bigotries.
Huge majorities of Americans support repealing DADT:
- 70% support repeal according to Gallup
- 57% support repeal according to Qunnipiac in February (66% say it is discrimination)
- 75% say that gay people should be allowed to serve openly according to this WaPo/ABC News poll
And I think it is fair to expect that Delawareans support letting gay people serve openly in large majorities too. You’d think that Mike Castle would have gotten the hang of representing the wishes of Delawareans after so many years of claiming to do so. But here he is — again — supporting his party over the interests of the people he represents.
Tags: DE-Sen, Mike Castle
The CNN poll had 78% support for the repeal. I assume Quinnipiac had a different question wording.
Will Castle vote with his Republican colleagues against the funding bill?
What an idiotic post. Almost every Veterans group, military leader, and most servicemen would be inelgible to observe memorial day by your logic. This is one of scumiest post you have ever written. You are using Memorial Day solely for a political agenda and then trying to snear at fellow Americans who just want to wish people well.
It is disgusting and unworthy of you.
I look forward to getting out on the campaign trail with my video camera this summer and tracking down Castle Frankenstein and asking him some tough questions about this vote. Jason330 is already salivating at my intended return to gorilla journalism.
He won’t be able to run away from me like he normally does because I haven’t seen him since losing 170 pounds!
David, unless you’re a veteran, don’t even try to speak for those of us who are. You bastard. How dare you! You homophobic POS. You are the one that is disgusting. Wave that flag and wrap yourself in it, but when push came to shove, you ducked tail and ran, while I and many other gay and lesbian citizens defended our country under arms.
Wow, P. Schwartz. Just wow.
Delusional David has plenty of nerve calling anyone idiotic from his perch as a permanent rider of the shortbus called Delaware Politics.
Do note, that nowhere in his own post can he defend the particular bigotry that his party is doubling down on. All he can do is call names and pretend that there is some nobility he is defending. Which, of course, he has none of. That nobility, I mean.
The thing that makes me mad is as of this morning I have not seen any statement by Castle on his DADT vote. Not one word of justification. He’s just hoping he can slink away and pretend he’s a moderate.
Go fuck yourself, PS. Seriously, just go fuck yourself.
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand anonytroll P. Schwartz’s appropriation of the Majority Leader’s name?
Mike, you’re not the only one. There are ways to deal with trolls.
Just got a Coons email hitting Castle over DADT: “Discrimination, plain and simple” … on Memorial Day weekend, and citing a conversation with a gay Delaware veteran. The Coons campaign is starting to get it. Now he needs to get that message out beyond his own mailing list.
This is leadership!
I actually love trolls. They’re what made my website thrive for years. I don’t agree with the nastiness they offer, but it’s the blogosphere, so I suppose it just comes with the territory.
Well, actually no they don’t. There are places where trolls don’t survive and nor is policy engineered to make a troll’s contribution equal to everyone elses.
I got the Coons release too — and will post that up as contrast probably tomorrow.
Castle brought up Memorial Day in his email (of course not mentioning the DADT vote). He used veterans and Memorial Day to claim credit for all his wonderful work down in DC. The essential message of the part of his email about veterans is “thanks to all who serve except for those I can’t appear to be favoring because it will hurt my election chances.” What a total jerk.
“David, unless you’re a veteran, don’t even try to speak for those of us who are. You bastard. How dare you! You homophobic POS. You are the one that is disgusting. Wave that flag and wrap yourself in it, but when push came to shove, you ducked tail and ran, while I and many other gay and lesbian citizens defended our country under arms.”
David is currently in the National Guard.
Do gorilla journalists eat bananas, Mike?
Erm…guerilla!!! Good catch.
Actually, it made me hope for a minute that you’d actually be dressing up like a gorilla and roaming with the camera.
Just be careful on the word usage, or Nancy’ll chuck bananas at you from her higher plain…
David is currently in the National Guard.
Which doesn’t negate MJ’s characterization of Delusional David as a bastard and a homophobic POS who is speaking for a very bigoted minority.
David is currently in the National Guard.
Is David a Teabagger?
It certainly “negates” this:
“Wave that flag and wrap yourself in it, but when push came to shove, you ducked tail and ran, while I and many other gay and lesbian citizens defended our country under arms.”
But then it is pretty typical MJ.
And typical you and yours to stand up for the homophobic and the bigoted — no matter what their affiliation might be.
I’m standing up for his service.