Our friend John Morgan over at PAProgressive has some harsh criticism of Tom Manion:
Thomas Manion, a corporate Vice President at huge pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, has announced he is running for Congress against Patrick Murphy in the 8th Congressional District. Manion, head of the Information Systems operations at the Big Pharma corporation, moved to Bucks County in 1990 after thrity years in the Marines. He is still a Colonel in the Marine Reserves and supports the Iraq War and President Bush. He lost his son in the war.Manion seems to be running for two purposes: to vindicate the loss of his son’s life and to stop national health care. Iraq and health care are two of the four biggest issues this year and Manion is on the wrong side of both. We do not know where he stands on the economy or immigration but I suspect he will not look good on those either.
Why would the people of th Eighth Congressional District elect someone who supports the failed policies of the past when Congressman Patrick Murphy, one of the shining lights for the future, has made a deep, positive, lasting impression in Washington? Murphy has shown the courage he first displayed while serving in Iraq to take a strong stand to end the occupation.
Tom Manion, to me, seems to be running so he can justify why his son lost his life. Travis Manion, like the other 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq, died for nothing and nothing Tom Manion can do can change that fact. He is grasping at straws thinking running for Congress so he can vindicate the disaster in Iraq and honor his son can accomplish anything positive. He will be one more tool of the health care establishment blocking access to health care for all while he votes to send more sons and daughters to their premature deaths in Fallujah, Ramadi and Baghdad. Bad choice.
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I was glad that Morgan looked into Manion’s candidacy, though I’m not sure I agree with his conclusions. Contrary to my past comments, I have now seen Manion use his son’s death as a political tool, which is honestly just sad. I haven’t heard him speak to stop national healthcare, though if he works for Big Pharma it doesn’t surprise me.
The one thing I really didn’t like about Morgan’s piece was the headline… I’m not sure I could go so far as to say that “Big Pharma Targets Patrick Murphy.”
Big Pharma targets all Democrats
Immediately after the Dems took over Congress in 2006 – I heard J & J advertised meetings entitled something like What a Democrat led Congress could mean for the Pharma industry with topics like drug cost controls and allowing importation. I am sure Mr. Manion will be well financed by his employers and coworkers.
The True "Tool"
Morgan’s, um, “editorial”, has to be one of the biggest pieces of tripe I’ve come across in a long time. I’m not sure why Mr. Morgan felt that he needed to run interference for Congressman Murphy here, in an effort to blunt a challenge by a man who hasn’t even assembled a campaign team or released a single position paper yet. Not only did Morgan attack positions that Manion, to my knowledge, hasn’t even taken yet, but he derided Manion’s motives for running, something I’m quite certain Morgan doesn’t have the slightest knowledge of. However, Manion is an executive AND a Marine, a combination that forces true “progressives” like Morgan to shudder in fear. If walking talking-points like Morgan have their way in Washington, Manion’s son will, as he put it, will truly have “died for nothing” in Iraq. I honestly believe the worst endgame in Iraq possible for “shining lights” such as Morgan is that American forces leave with their heads high, which is actually possible, given the success of the “surge” that libs assured us would be a disaster. Blinded by his partisan zeal, Morgan apparently can’t grasp the fact that if American forces leave before a stable Iraqi government is in place, more American “sons and daughters” will be shipped right back over to Iraq when the place is completely overrun by warring factions and al-Quida operatives. Tom Manion, I believe, understands this. Pat Murphy, deep down, probably does too. It’s a shame that “tools” like John Morgan apparently don’t, or don’t care to. The blogging business is better that way, right John?
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