One Righteous Rant on Phony Pat McCrory

I'm breaking our rule about posting an entire piece without the author's permission, but since it came from our own comments I don't think DEfuning will mind. She gives us one righteous rant on Pat McCrory. Thanks D.

This was a laugh riot. Pat says that he is accessible to the public--yeah, as long as you are not a Democratic elected official, in which case he takes the politicization of his office to a very high degree. Pat "does not play well with others" unless you are a Republican. This seems to be a standing order from the Republican National Committee and Pat always follows their orders to a T. Dontcha know? Only Republicans heart the military...

For example, the Veterans Center in Mecklenburg County was just opened and only Republicans were seated on the stage during the ceremony. The highest ranking elected official in the County--Mecklenburg County Commissioner Chairman Jennifer Roberts(D), the representative from Rep. Mel Watt's(D) office and the representative from Governor Easley's(D) office were placed out in the grass. And there was plenty of room on the stage. Commissioner Roberts presented a proclamation from Mecklenburg County to commemorate the event but that did not rate a seat on the stage with Republicans.

The same thing almost happened at the recent Army Community Covenant ceremony in Charlotte. Pat attempted to freeze out the Mecklenburg County officials who will actually provide services to our joint forces.Including the Department of Veteran Services--whose director didn't even get an invitation to the event until folks at the County muscled their way in and invited him. It was the Pat Show. It was all Pat and his backslapping, stand up comedy--but he never once offered EVEN ONE concrete example of what the city was actually going to do for veterans. Zip. It was all circus showmanship and no substance for the soldiers and their families. Ironically, it is the County who is providing services to the military through CART--a joint forces community effort in conjunction with the County Health Department, CMS, Parks and Rec and Area Mental Health, among others. But those details were not supposed to interfere with his Smoke and Mirrors act to demonstrate how "gubernatorial" he can be in state with such a strong military presence. It just angered the soldiers and their families when he failed to name even one service he will provide to them. Not even one. The muttering in the audience was open and angry. They are so tired of empty suits like Pat, who have never served, "promising" to honor and serve them and delivering NADA.

Pat is all talk talk talk--all show biz and no follow through. I was personally offended for the military members of my family when he waved his arms and puffed up his chest and said that he was so very very proud that the City took a star off the wall of the Gov Center and presented it to our poor blown up local heroes. A star from the wall. WOW. Like I said, all cheap show biz theatrics and no substance. You can tell he never got near a VA Center or hospital or even a soldier's family to see what they are really going through and what they really need. Insulting beyond belief. Inexcusable.

He is politicizing the military for his own political needs to the same extent that the Bush Administration politicized the Department of Justice. Following orders from the RNC. Shameless politicization and neglecting the needs of the military to serve his own ego driven needs. No wonder Pat is the only gubernatorial candidate who Bush has chosen to campaign for--Pat has always carried Bush's water and Bush is throwing him a bone. That ideology has obviously worked so well for the country that Pat wants to insure that it erodes what insulation we have in North Carolina from the failed, disastrous Bush Administration policies.How's that ideology been working for you Pat? The vast majority of us think that it has been an immoral bust.

Uh oh, Pat is drinking the John Locke Foundation Kool Aid again by repeating their bogus statistics about us paying the highest taxes around. Bogus. Those were debunked a long time ago--but what are facts when there is some disinformation to spread around like manure in a barren field?

I have to laugh when he said that the press was "bored" by the transparency of his e-mails which he releases to the press--perhaps it is because they are all YADDA YADDA YADDA. Move along, nothing to see here.

He tried valiantly to sound like he knew ships from shinola about the mental health crisis in the state. It was especially lame. Yeah yeah yeah, it is all the other guy's fault.

Oh my, Pat--you are "...very very worried about the high natural gas prices..."? Oh my, perhaps you should ask your campaign donor who has a big corner on the market for piping it into NC. You made a big fuss years ago about vowing to look into why Charlotte had such high gas prices and what was the result? Zip. It's all just talk.

Bev DOES know about healthcare, and education,and crime-- and being gubernatorial. Pat doesn't know nothing about being a governor but he wants to play one on TV.