New York Times Does the Right Thing, Exposes Blumenthal Fraud

And the truth shall set you free — and most likely kill your political career. The frontrunner to be Chris Dodd’s replacement in the Connecticut senatorial campaign, Richard Blumenthal, has been dealt a possible death blow in his Senate hopes. With the deadline looming Friday to nominate Dodd’s replacement, it seems that candidate Blumenthal, as hard as this was for the Times to break, must step down.

At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard; pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in the Nixon White House.

In the commonplace practice for liberals and the Left to masquerade as something they are not, this is going to be very hard from which to come back. It’s not the same as pretending to be a pro-life, conservative fiscal hawk to gain votes, which in itself should ring unethical, but instead is politics as usual for the Left.

To hijack a veteran’s honor and talk as though you actually fought alongside these honorable men in Vietnam is despicable, dishonorable, and downright deceitful. So much so that the Times even stepped up and reported this shameful facade on the part of Blumenthal. Here’s hoping Blumenthal withdraws from this race because this story will not go away and will prove to be his waterloo.