After Montana Democratic Sen. John Walsh was found to have plagiarized large sections of the paper he wrote to earn a Master’s degree from Pennsylvania’s Army War College, he dropped out of the race. It made the seat an almost sure bet for Republicans to pick up. Similarly, Ron Dickey, the Democratic nominee for Mississippi’s first congressional district, misled voters in his state about his military record—claiming he was a green beret, when in fact he simply a “food service specialist”—or line cook—for a green beret unit. While he hasn’t dropped out of the race—his name is still on the ballot—Democrats in Mississippi, particularly state party chairman Rickey Cole, called on Dickey to drop out.
George Rasley, a conservative political operative with Richard Viguerie’s ConservativeHQ, said Democrats should call on Peters to drop out of the race.
“Being in the Reserve is a perfectly honorable way to serve the country, but Gary Peters’ phony story line about his military service goes beyond exaggeration into just plain fabrication, and it fits a pattern Democrats have established now that national security has become an issue in the midterm election,” Rasley told Breitbart News. “What Democrats like Gary Peters and Ron Dickey down in Mississippi are trying to do is create a false narrative about their military service to hide from voters the fact that their support for Barack Obama’s failed national security policies have endangered the country. At least in Mississippi the Democrats had the integrity to tell Ron Dickey to get out of the race when the truth about his military service came out, the Democrats in Michigan should do the same with Peters.”
Breitbart
10/12/14
Magnolia Tribune
