Plenty of politicians have invoked 9/11 for plenty of reasons—usually to promote some kind of horrific new infringement on our civil liberties in the name of freedom and security. But to Ron Johnson it's personal. It's just like his re-election.
Johnson, who is running for re-election against Democrat Russ Feingold, marveled at how passengers on United Flight 93 took a vote before storming the cabin to fight the hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001, forcing the plane to crash in a Pennsylvania field.
"We've all heard Todd Beamer's iconic words 'Let's roll,'" Johnson told about 1,000 party faithful. "How American is that? We have a job to do, let's roll up our shirt sleeves. Let's get it done."
He then compared the passengers' vote with the upcoming election.
"The reason I like telling that story now as we head into the election season is we all know what we need to do," Johnson said. "November 2016 we'll be taking a vote. We'll be encouraging our fellow citizens to take a vote. Now, it may not be life and death, like the vote passengers on United Flight 93 took, but boy is it consequential."
Yeah. He really did that. Which should be enough to disqualify him from ever holding elective office anywhere ever again.
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