Karen Kwiatkowski (from Why We Fight) is running for Congress!

I am familiar with the 6th Congressional District because my hometown, Staunton, Virginia, is within it. Although I have not lived there for many years I still keep up with its political scene.

I was a strong supporter of Arin Sime when he ran as a Libertarian Party candidate for the State Senate in 2006. That district included western Albemarle County and Augusta, Bath and Highland Counties and the small cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Arin ran an energetic campaign and was a fine candidate. He received about 8% of the vote running against a Democrat and a Republican.

In 2008 Libertarian Party candidate Stuart Bain, who I also supported, ran against Goodlatte and received 9% of the vote. Goodlatte received 76% and an independent received 13%. Goodlatte’s electoral history is that he usually runs unopposed by a Democrat and gets from 75 to 100% of the vote. Occasionally the Democrats run a candidate and Goodlatte receives 60 to 69% of the vote.

So Karen is correct in percieving that her best chance of defeating him is in the Republican nomination phase. I wish her the best and if she does not succeed I hope the Libertarian Party will again have a candidate who I will again support.

Ron drops in on her campaign. Peace is a powerful message.

Wow, and she is running in the district bordering mine. I definitely am going to have to get involved in this =D

I like Karen; she writes good articles! She would be a good boost in Congress.

She's deserving of our support.

http://www.nathancallahan.com/kwiatletter.html

A Letter from Karen Kwiatkowski

Since The Transfixing Power of Image: Karen Kwiatkowski, Abu Ghraib and the $700 Million Misdirection was posted at this website, Kwiatkowski has become the target of a smear campaign that includes hit pieces published by the American Enterprise Institute and the National Review Online. She has also been subject to "blatantly false" accusations by Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona. Below is a Kwiatkowski's response.

I am sending this to reporters and others who have contacted me in the past, as a matter of courtesy and concern.

Michael Rubin is currently attempting to smear me as both a LaRouche adherent and anti-Semite, along with others at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the National Review Online. Additionally, Senator Jon Kyl, R, Arizona, has taken these types of lies and insinuations and published them (see attached letter and text below). I am not and have never in my life been associated with LaRouche or his organization, know very little about it, and definitely do not support it. I was a registered Republican all my life until I switched directly to the Libertarian Party some years ago. Specifically, Rubin's two personal attacks on me on 18 and 19 May at National Review Online are filled with lies, untruths, and baseless defamation.

Obviously, the intent is to negatively impact my credibility as a witness to what went on in the Pentagon leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

I wanted each of you to know from me that I am innocent of the charges made in National Review Online in the past two days, and also those mentioned by Senator Kyl in a speech he has been giving. I have no LaRouche connections, never sought out Jeff Steinberg (he called me as did 100 other reporters last fall to the present), and am not anti-Semitic. I stand 100% by what I have written, most directly and completely the reports in the American Conservative and Salon, in my own words.

I have already written the Senate, AEI, NRO, Michael Rubin himself, CSIS and CFR (where Kyl gave his speech) and others declaring my innocence and asking them to correct the record. I have received no answers so far from anyone.

Thank you for your support. I am just a regular person, and am not used to being smeared and denigrated by people who are apparently very comfortable with lying. Because of my upbringing and my 20 years as a military officer, I am not at all comfortable with lying, and therefore am extremely careful with what I say and write, such that it is as honest and as accurate as I can make it.

Karen Kwiatkowski
LewRockwell.com
MilitaryWeek.com

Is on RonPaulMoneyBombRadio.com now with Uncle Rahn

http://legalizegoldandsilver.com/

On the same page is an interview with the Democrat running for the nomination.
http://wsvgradio.com/on-the-record/

That guy, Andy Schmookler; sheesh! The word delusional comes to mind. The guy is a Krugman cult member!

Here are some recent town hall meeting videos featuring Bob Goodlatte, the career politician that Karen is trying to retire:
http://www.youtube.com/2ndtcg#g/c/82CA0C0D6FAFB6E7

Here's a video where my friend Phil Spence of the 2nd Tuesday Constitution Group gets Goodlatte on the record about the Constitution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbNQnqLOQm0

be a terrific candidate. It's exciting to see more libertarians stepping up, and her military expertise combined with a non-interventionist foreign policy will add a much needed dimension.

Big, big, bump!

bump

Thanks for the good news.

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