FURTHER CONNECTICUT UPDATE – AT 3:35 P.M. ET:  It is simply amazing what a politician in trouble will say to salvage his career.  We give you the continuing saga of one Richard Blumental, formerly respected attorney general of Connecticut, a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, who has now been exposed as lying about his military record.  On many occasions, it seems, he left the distinct, incontrovertible impression that he had served in Vietnam.  From The New York Times:

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, a Democrat running for the United States Senate, said he took “full responsibility” for saying he had served in Vietnam when he actually received deferments between 1965 and 1970, worked in the Nixon White House and then joined the Marine Corps Reserve.

Isn't that nice.  He takes responsibility for his own words. 

“On a few occasions I have misspoken about my service, and I regret that and I take full responsibility,” Mr. Blumenthal said at a news conference Tuesday at a Veterans of Foreign Wars post in West Hartford, “but I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country.”

Misplaced words?  How do you misplace words like that?  Is there a speech therapist in the house?

Mr. Blumenthal said he had been unaware of “those misplaced words” when he said them. He said that the errors were "totally unintentional" errors and that he had made them on only a small number of occasions in hundreds of public appearances.

Are you believing this?  This is a grown man speaking.  ("You know, honey, I'm truly sorry that, on a small number of occasions, I misplaced my pants in my secretary's apartment.  I was unaware of it.  But compare that to the many hundreds of times my pants came home.")

This guy has got to go.  The Dems will choose their Senate candidate at a convention Saturday.  Blumenthal's opponent is an unknown nonentity.

The probable Republican candidate, former Congressman Rob Simmons, served in Vietnam, where he was awarded two Bronze Stars.

May 18, 2010