Elizabeth Warren unwittingly makes the case for Hegseth appointment

 Blaze:

Three sources told CBS News over the weekend that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has privately confirmed to President-elect Donald Trump that despite earlier reservations from Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and other Republican senators, his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, will have the votes necessary to be confirmed as secretary of defense.

Nevertheless, Democrats — especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — appear keen to fully exploit the opportunity to further denigrate the recipient of the Combat Infantry Badge, two Bronze Stars, and two Army Commendation Medals for valor.

Warren sent a 33-page missive late Monday to Hegseth, recycling establishmentarians' go-to smears and revealing the nature of Democrats' likely final line of attack on the decorated Army veteran at his confirmation hearing on Jan. 14.

"I am deeply concerned by the many ways in which your behavior and rhetoric indicates that you are unfit to lead the Department of Defense," wrote Warren, fresh off sympathizing with UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's alleged killer. "These are the qualifications that we should be looking for in the next Secretary of Defense. However, your past behavior and rhetoric indicates your inability to effectively lead this organization and properly support our servicemembers."

Warren's woke disquisition, which contained over 70 accusations presented as questions to Hegseth, was divided into several condemning sections, including sections attacking Hegseth's organizational management at Veterans for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America; his consumption of alcohol; a 2017 sexual assault allegation that resulted in no charges and has been repeatedly blasted as false by Hegseth's attorneys; and his prioritization of American soldiers' safety over the perceived battlefield rights of enemy combatants.

In other sections, Warren tried framing Hegseth's popular proposals for how to depoliticize and improve the military as disqualifying. For instance, the leftist senator smeared Hegseth as a misogynist for suggesting that men are physically stronger than women; that expanding combat roles to women "hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated"; and that affirmative action pursued so recruiters can "feel good about themselves" has "nothing to do with national security."
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I am sure that if Hegseth and Warren had a physical training completion Hegseth would easily win. As a combat veteran wounded in action in Vietnam, I think Hegseth knows much more about warfare than Warren.  Democrats like Warren appear to be irrationally oppositional to Hegseth despite his background in the service.

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