You know, sometimes I feel for the left-wing supporters of long-shot candidates and their tactics.

Sadly, these lefties love to use veterans and the military as political tools. It’s from Nancy Pelosi’s playbook. It will be no different in 2008. Last week they did it again, this time trying to tie the G.I. Bill to a huge multi-Billion dollar tax increase.

Everyone knows the G.I. bill would pass if it was a stand-alone bill. But no, the democrats want to get some election-year fodder to use in their campaign commercials so they added several billion dollars in tax increases. They like tax increases, Republicans don’t.

Friday night we saw, the seventh challenger (I lost count) to Denny Rehberg this cycle (Jim Hunt), get his one minute shot on TV. There he was (gathered with all five of his supporters) throwing stones over this vote. This is a typical method of the left: They like to pick up a handful of rocks and throw them, hoping they can at least hit the incumbent with one of them. Unfortunately, they like to use veterans and military personnel as their rocks. They also like to raise your taxes – a lot of taxes.

At least we now know that Jim Hunt will raise your taxes if elected.

In his previous occupation in the National Guard, I imagine Hunt noticed when he was working in and visiting the different buildings around Fort Harrison, that a plaque with a Republican’s name was proudly displayed by the Guard inside the entrance in almost all the newer buildings. These state-of-the-art buildings came from hard work and dedication to Montana’s military – from Republicans, like Rehberg.

Fort Harrison would have undoubtedly been closed if they would have left it in the Democrats’ hands. Fortunately, the Guard had a couple of Republicans fighting for them and Rehberg was one of them.

So, it’s sad to see someone who has reaped some of the benefits from all that heavy lifting done by Republicans in this state, forget about it so easily – due to partisan politics.