Right-Wing Armchair “Warriors”

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   BrianX

   August 26, 2012 at 3:42 pm (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   I’m starting to wonder if the Right is going to turn on the military completely. After all, it’s the liberals who want to take care of the veterans and not throw people out for who they have sex with, and they have no script for patriotic liberal veterans. They can’t process it.

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   blf

   August 27, 2012 at 5:57 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   I’m starting to wonder if the Right is going to turn on the military completely.

   Doubt it. It’s about the only thing whose funding isn’t cut / eliminated in “Sodomize the Poor” Ryan’s so-called budget. As I recall — apologies, no citations at hand — RMoney has promised to not cut the military’s funding.

   Having said that, I’ve no idea what either one has said (if anything) about veterans care, the replacement of DADT with sanity, the military’s warnings about the consequences of AGW, …

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   hexidecima

   August 27, 2012 at 9:22 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   military funding was not cut, but it’s all for crap the congress wants to feed their districts. There is no pay raise for the soldiers, no extra help for their families, nothing that would actually help the men and women serving. Don’t forget, these were the idiots who sent soldiers into combat without enough armor.

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   ottod

   August 27, 2012 at 9:40 am (UTC -7) Link to this comment

   Tammy Duckworth’s service is pertinent in the campaign because the war in which she fought and her experience is still important in the national debate about foreign policy, the economy, military spending, treatment of veterans, and discrimination in the armed forces. McCain’s service had less direct bearing when he first began to run for office, but there was no shortage of biographical material invoking his heroism even then. He has parlayed his military experience into the Armed Services committee and a reputation as an expert on the military and torture. McCain was so reluctant to talk about himself and his service that a ghost-written autobiography, with modest description of his service and heroism, didn’t appear until just before the 2000 election where the weed’s surrogates bludgeoned him with his record. As I recall, another McCain biography hit the stands in 2008.

   So, yeah, there’s all the difference in the world between McCain and Duckworth [!] Or maybe not. There does, however,seem to be a real moral chasm separating Duckworth and McCain from the DB Joe Walsh.