ANTI-WAR IRAQ VET AND ONE-TIME SENATE CANDIDATE HACKETT WAS STABBED IN THE BACK BY REID AND SCHUMER, NOT RUSH

RUSH NEVER CALLED HACKETT - ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT ANTI-WAR IRAQ VETS - A PHONY SOLDIER FOR BEING ANTI-WAR.

BUT CHUCKIE "PETRAEUS LIES" SCHUMER AND HARRY "WE'VE LOST" REID STABBED HIM IN THE BACK.



THAT'S NOT ME SAYING IT; IT'S HACKETT, AND HE TOLD IT TO THE LEFTIST MAGAZINE MOTHER JONES:

Democratic Senate candidate and Marine Corps Major Paul Hackett is accustomed to waging quixotic battles and taking his hits.

He just didn’t expect the lowest—and fatal—blows to come from his own party.

In an announcement that stunned many in Washington and even some in his campaign staff, Hackett declared on February 13, 2006, that he was dropping his bid for U.S. Senate in Ohio, ending his 11 month political career.

... The weapons used in the rubout included economic sabotage, whisper campaigns, and threats. ...

“I made this decision reluctantly, only after repeated requests by party leaders, as well as behind-the-scenes machinations, that were intended to hurt my campaign,” he said, only hinting at what had gone down.

The day after his withdrawal from the race, he told me about the backroom battles that forced him out.

... Schumer, after having wooed him in August, called again in October. “Schumer didn’t tell me anything definitive,” Hackett told me at the time. “But I’m not a dumb ass, and I know what he wanted me to do.”

... In late November, Hackett got a call from Sen. Harry Reid. “I hear there’s a photo of you mistreating bodies in Iraq. Is it true?” demanded the Senate minority leader. ... But the whispering continued, and Hackett was troubled.

“It creates doubt and suspicion,” Hackett told me, saying his close supporters were asking him privately about the rumors. “It tarnishes my very strength as a candidate, my military service. It’s like you take a handful of seeds, throw them up in the wind, and they blow all around and start growing. It really bothered me.”

Hackett backers suspected the smear was being floated by Sherrod Brown’s campaign. ... Sen. Schumer was also reported to be trying to turn off Hackett’s cash spigots. No one would confirm this to me on the record. But veteran political activist David Mixner, who described himself as “a fanatically strong supporter” of Hackett and who helped sponsor a New York fundraiser, confirmed that he “received calls from a couple people in Congress urging Paul Hackett to withdraw or not to contribute money to his campaign.

... Hackett was infuriated by the subterfuge. “I felt like I got fucked by the Democratic Party because they enticed me in and then they pulled the rug out from beneath me. It sounds eerily familiar to sending in the military to Iraq, which was a misuse of the military, and then not giving them what they need to fight.”

RTWT.

• RUSH NEVER EVER CALLED ANY ANTI-WAR VETS "PHONY."

• RUSH ATTACKED ACTUAL PHONY SOLDIERS, LIKE JESSE MACBETH.

• RUSH IS BEING ATTACKED BY THE FOLKS WHO STABBED HACKETT - AN ANTI-WAR IRAQ WAR VET - IN THE BACK.

• THESE DEMOCRATS ARE SCUM.