In today's weekly email update, Washington State GOP Chairman Luke Esser compares Dave Reichert and Darcy Burner on their respective responses to the MoveOn.org attack on General Petraeus. Here is the text of the update:

Burner Refuses to Answer Question On Her Top Issue
Darcy Burner, Who Has Based Her Entire Campaign On Iraq, Refuses To Answer Questions On ... Iraq

Democratic Congressional candidate Darcy Burner, who has made an immediate retreat from Iraq her signature campaign issue, is refusing to answer questions about a Congressional vote on... Iraq. She is refusing to condemn her allies' attacks on General David Petraeus and when asked how she would have voted on a resolution on the issue that overwhelmingly passed Congress yesterday, Burner hid behind her campaign spokesman.

Darcy Burner is showing once again why she just isn't ready to represent Washington in Congress. She won't even answer questions about her own signature issue. Presumably, she's spent a lot of time thinking about Iraq, so why is she refusing to answer questions on it? She's quickly destroying any credibility she has left.

Burner has a responsibility to condemn her allies for bringing the politics of personal destruction to our military personnel. Voters deserve to know whether she'd stand with the majority of her party or extremists like Jim McDermott. Darcy Burner would rather avoid offending her far-left allies than keep her promise to respect the men and women of our military.

...While Rep. Reichert Condemns MoveOn's Attack on Gen. Petraeus

In stark contrast to Darcy Burner's silence, Rep. Dave Reichert strongly condemned MoveOn.org's attack on General Petraeus:

"The New York Times ad by MoveOn.org is just despicable," said Reichert. "Every man and woman in uniform deserves our utmost respect and to impugn an Army General's motives with personal attacks is an outrage and an affront to everyone serving the Armed Forces. Whether or not you agree or disagree with the war, it is beyond the pale to attack the members of our military for carrying out the orders they have been given.

"The ad was a clear attempt to undermine his Congressional testimony for political gain and that is an outrage. General Petraeus was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate with the full understanding that he had a plan to win in Iraq and that he was to come before Congress and report on that plan. We have sunk to a new low if we do not condemn in the strongest terms groups that would then attack him for doing what we have asked him to do.

"We are currently at war. Young men and women are risking their lives everyday and some are paying the ultimate sacrifice because we have asked them to do so. We should support them, we should give them what they need to succeed, and we should show them respect. I am pleased that the House sent them a bipartisan message today that we do respect them and we will not allow attacks on them to go unanswered."