Pirate's Cove

Looks like the Left-O-Sphere is all up in arms over a fundraising email from Pete Hoekstra. Welcome to Big Boy Politics, leftards! (What follows is a partial bit of the email)

Dear Friend:

We don’t have much time, so I will get right to the point.

In the midst of enjoying Christmas with my family, we were quickly reminded that there is still a war against the American way of life; on Christmas morning, it came right here to Detroit.

We know the story. A cowardly terrorist was allowed to board a flight bound for our state, and armed with explosives, attempted to murder countless passengers and potential victims on the ground.

Unnamed heroes aboard the plane likely averted disaster.

Shockingly, yesterday morning, Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary went on TV and said “the system worked”!

They just don’t get it. The system didn’t “work” here. Far from it! It is insulting that The Obama administration would make such a claim, but then again, these are the same weak-kneed liberals who have recently tried to bring Guantanamo Bay terrorists right here to Michigan!

My promise to you, as your governor, my first duty and most solemn responsibility is to keep Michigan safe!

For almost a decade I have been a leader on National Security and at the forefront of the war on terror. I understand the real and continuing threat radical jihadists pose to our great state of Michigan and our great Nation.

I have pledged that I will do “everything possible” to prevent these terrorists from coming to Michigan.

But I need your help.

If you agree that we need a Governor who will stand up the Obama/Pelosi efforts to weaken our security please make a most generous contribution of $25, $50, $100 or even $250 to my campaign.

You can read the rest, but, you get the gist of the thing. And, as usual, the Usual Bed Wetters are all up in arms, folks like (pulling the links from Memeorandum): The Plum Line, Think Progress, Washington Monthly, The Fix, democracyarsenal.org, Raw Story, TPMDC, The Swamp, Ben Smith’s Blog, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Washington Monthly, MLive.com, The Washington Independent and MyDD, Alan Colmes’ Liberaland, Associated Press, NewsBusters.org and Daily Kos. All wetting themselves over the use of Obama’s lame response to raise money. Yeah, fine. Like, we haven’t seen the nutters use all sorts of events and such in their fundraising attempts. Remember when John “Silk Pony” Edwards used his wife’s cancer to attempt to raise money? Using Palin’s book release to slam her, a private citizen (and they have done it with other private citizens,) to raise money?  How about all those emails blaming Bush, even though he wasn’t running?

Of course, perhaps the Demolillies should consider that terrorists and terrorist groups have been fund-raising for them for some time, now. Not too mention Obama’s long associations with unrepentant domestic terrorists.