Walter Jones Repels a War Party Attack

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The GOP Beltway establishment is celebrating the victory of Thom Tillis, Speaker of the North Carolina House, over his Tea Party and Evangelical rivals in Tuesday’s primary for the U.S. Senate.

But the story ended less happily for the Beltway elite in the Tar Heel State’s 3rd Congressional District. There, the planned purge of Rep. Walter Jones was repulsed by his loyal Republican base.

Yet, this massively funded effort, to kill the career of a 20-year House veteran, whose father held the seat for decades before him, testifies eloquently to the intolerance of the ideological and monied elite of the party to which conservatives give allegiance.

Reportedly, a million dollars of super PAC money poured into the 3rd, from Republicans, in support of a brazen Big Lie campaign to paint Walter Jones as a liberal. But what is the Congressman’s real record?

In the Bush I era, he voted against No Child Left Behind.

In the Obama years, he voted against Obamacare and the bailouts of the big banks, Wall Street and Detroit. He voted against cap and trade, and TARP, the trillion-dollar stimulus package.

Jones voted against every increase in the debt ceiling in 10 years and refuses to vote for any U.S. budget not in balance. He stands against same-sex marriage, has a 100 percent rating from National Right to Life, and receives a consistent A from the NRA.

A national organization opposing illegal immigration gives Jones an A+ for battling to secure America’s borders and block amnesty.

Camp Lejeune is in Jones’ district, and he has received awards from every veterans organization from the American Legion to the Disabled American Veterans.

FreedomWorks cited Jones last year as the most conservative member of the North Carolina delegation and one of the 10 most conservative members of the House. And he had the endorsement of Dot Helms, widow of conservative legend Jesse Helms.

Why, then, was the Beltway elite so determined to destroy Jones that they spent a million dollars backing a Bush II apparatchik turned K Street lobbyist who moved only last year to the district?

Why was the War Party determined to kill Walter Jones?

First, Jones has voted for years to end foreign aid, a capital crime to the Israeli lobby AIPAC.

Second, though Jones was so pro-war in 2003 that when France opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq he had the House dining room rename French fries “freedom fries,” when the caskets began to come home he starting having second thoughts.

Walter Jones came to believe that voting to send Americans to fight and die in Iraq was the worst mistake of his career.

So now Rep. Jones spends hours each weekend writing personal letters to every family that lost a son or daughter in a war he wrongly supported. And he has resolved to oppose every idiotic war into which his country is being stampeded.

Walter Jones is a pro-peace conservative, a principled patriot who votes his convictions, puts his country first, and refuses to take dictation from the War Party.

And that is why the War Party front, the “Emergency Committee for Israel,” chaired by Bill Kristol, leading tub-thumper for a war that cost 4,500 American lives, funneled hundreds of thousands into attack ads in one Congressional District in North Carolina to kill the career of one congressman.

And that is why Ending Spending Action Fund, a super PAC led by billionaire Joe Ricketts and backed by the Macau-Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, dumped scores of thousands into the 3rd District to deceive voters into believing that Walter Jones is a liberal.

Describing the Beltway coalition that tried to end the career of Rep. Jones, Ronald Reagan’s Budget Director David Stockman writes:

“The whole Bush White House crowd that destroyed the GOP’s commitment to fiscal discipline, bailed-out Wall Street and GM and launched disastrous wars … joined the attack. The heavy artillery included … Karl Rove, former Governor and RNC chair Haley Barber and the War Party’s highly paid chief PR flack, Ari Fleischer.”

Consider what the GOP establishment and the Adelson-Kristol neocons are telling Republicans nationally with this wilding attack on a venerable veteran of the Republican House.

They are saying: You can be for amnesty for illegal aliens, support same-sex marriage, be pro-choice on abortion, and you can still be welcome in our party. But oppose foreign aid or resist the War Party agenda, and you are a heretic who should and shall be purged.

With this massive intervention in North Carolina, not to elect some outstanding new candidate, but to kill the career of one defiant dissenter, the GOP establishment is sending a message to the Republican base:

Our “Big Tent” is not big enough to include Walter Jones.

But if that is true of Walter Jones, what does that say to a nation that has come to agree with Walter Jones that America should mind her own business and stop fighting other countries’ wars?

Who is out of touch with America here?

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Gayle

Thanks Admin for posting this. Reading it was the high point of my day (so far).

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

As friend of some of the moneyed interests in N.C. I know that the fix was in for Tellis more than a year ago . Many of those folks despise what they are doing, they’ll tell you that in private conversations alas if they didn’t work the system, the system would work them, to the detriment of their bottom line .

I had a conversation with a friend on the tax workings of his business. It amazed me how he was legally able to defer cost, profits etc via a tax system “Designed ” for his type of business . When I asked how he was able to get this done….He smiled and said it’s all about the Benjamin’s and I pay both sides .

Zarathustra

What’s the surprise here? You just don’t fuck with the Israel-first crowd, which is another term for the republican party. Isn’t it obvious?

Nonanonymous

Z, where to start, are you pro-war?

Let’s cut to the chase. You’re anti-US, so why is any of it any of your concern, or why should anyone give a wit what you think of it?

Frenchie
Frenchie

Nonanonymous, you don’t get it, you’re off the track

anti-US doesn’t mean anti-American. in fact, regarding me, real Americans are those who still value individual freedom, self-responsability, entrepreneurship and peace. this category of people have become foreign in their own country.
nobody is happy with the US turning in a smoking pile of shit, not even a French like me. It has consequencies on my future and the future of my kids. maybe I will have to fight for my life mid-term because of satanic washington bitches playing chess while drunk.
I appreciate people living in the US because of public-spiritedness and because they’re so helpful. 15 years ago, I wouldn’t have minded investing 100000$ in a business in the US as there was remains of a dream and still possibility to become wealthy. but today, NO WAY.
I understand Zara anger, this anger has nothing to do with ordinary people, but with the 1% that are way too out of control.
republicans and dems are equal psychotic loonies. they no more reflect American public interrest since the invasion of Kosovo. they are dangerous for anyone, anywhere in the world including me.

the American dream turn out to be a nightmare those days. this should be your only concern

flash
flash

Feds released hundreds of immigrant murderers, drunk drivers, sex-crimes convicts

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/12/feds-released-hundreds-immigrant-murderers-drunken/

And the GOP sez’ they must be made legal citizens by August or the seas will rise, flooding all coastal cities, leaving 7 million dead and billions in property damage..

GOP Promises Amnesty by August!
http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2014/04/gop-promises-amnesty-by-august-2617260.html

And again, the GOP crazy Uncle spins off his unstable axis , going full goo hoo for rescuing a few hundred , captured girls from the threat of tribal indoctrination whilst allowing million of girls here in the USA to suffer the same fate under the tolerance for feral culture clause…
What a party of stupid …limited government my hairy arse.

McCain: Send U.S. Special Forces to Rescue Nigerian Girls

The hawkish Senator tells The Daily Beast that American forces should #BringBackOurGirls—even if the Nigerian government says no.

Walter Jones Repels a War Party Attack

flash
flash

Repug Champion…. and general, all-around POS.

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The way they treated Walter Jones was downright… perfidious.

GilbetS
GilbetS

I wish I still lived there, just so I could support him. I generally hate politicians, but to hear about how he writes condolence letters for the war he supported,and “evolved” on, I am touched. More and more, the RNC is driving away their own base. I won’t vote for an R residential candidate ever again until they put up a real conservative with real red blood in his arteries.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Hey Flash….a question . When Linda McCartney died I ate a steak in her honor ( for those not aware she was a vegetarian and very anti-meat ) . So my question is when McCain dies how should I honor this POS ? I’m open to suggestions from anyone .

GilbetS
GilbetS

You could accidentally set an aircraft carrier on fire or bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb Iran… Perhaps you could lead some illegals across the border?

flash
flash

BUCKHED – So my question is when McCain dies how should I honor this POS ?

Make a huge donation to TBP, of course..the only uncensored Libertarian blog on the whole wold wide web.You’re welcome.

Frenchie
Frenchie

flash says: Make a huge donation to TBP, of course..the only uncensored Libertarian blog on the whole wold wide web.You’re welcome.

you could also cook some spring rolls for diner and wear a black shirt

flash
flash

Buckhead , or in the true spirit of McCainism…You could rent a small plane, fire bomb a large wedding party with Molotov cocktails from 100ft and once arrested turn informant on your fellow cell mates. Repugs…what’s not to love?

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