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Armed Services chairman won’t push to reinstate DADT if Romney wins
The Hill ^ | June 21, 2012 | Jeremy Herb

Posted on 06/21/2012 7:14:27 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said he doesn’t plan to try and reinstate “Don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT), the former ban on gays serving openly in the military, if Republicans were to take the Senate and Mitt Romney won the White House in November.

McKeon and other Republicans were opposed to repealing DADT when the Democratic-controlled Congress passed it in 2010, but McKeon said Thursday that he didn’t see a reason to re-start the fight over it.

“We fought that fight, and I think right now it’s more important to get the things that our warfighters need,” McKeon said at a breakfast roundtable with defense reporters, in response to a question about whether he would try to reinstate it under a Republican-controlled Congress and White House.

“That’s not something I personally would bring up — that doesn’t mean that others won’t,” McKeon added.

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1 posted on 06/21/2012 7:14:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They must not simply reinstate DADT, but reinstate the complete ban on Sodomites in our military and they must do it before our next war or we will lose our next war.


2 posted on 06/21/2012 7:23:15 PM PDT by Uncle Slayton
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Why would he?

Romney is already on record that he will not re-instate DADT and he the Father of Gay Marriage in America since he implemented it unconstitutionally in MA.

He has been Pro-Gay Rights his whole career and this is one policy position he continues to publicly support.


3 posted on 06/21/2012 7:25:33 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m not hearing much about how we’re going to push Mittens to the right these days.


4 posted on 06/21/2012 7:27:20 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: SoConPubbie

So I guess we will have the Marine Corp band marching in the DC Gay Pride Parade..maybe with chaps and bare cheeks?
Plus a transgender Corps Commander at West Point? Where do they draw the line now that they have opened the gates?


5 posted on 06/21/2012 7:29:22 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They shouldn’t reinstate DADT. They should try to put it back the way it was BEFORE DADT.

If these idiots on our side really believed in their positions they would have no hesitation in fighting to put it back the way it was. They are coward statists who really don’t believe in these issues.


6 posted on 06/21/2012 7:30:04 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: cripplecreek
I’m not hearing much about how we’re going to push Mittens to the right these days.

That was either a lie from the very start to try and calm us conservatives down or fearful hopes from the ABO trying to find a way to assuage their consciences for the betrayal of their principles for supporting someone they knew was a Progressive Liberal.
7 posted on 06/21/2012 7:32:03 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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That bell has already been rung, kinda like the parts of Obamacare that allow people to keep their kids on their policy to 26 and force insurers to cover pre existing conditions.

This is a reminder to all of those that think they can/should stay home on election day that elections have consequences.


8 posted on 06/21/2012 7:32:10 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: newnhdad
This is a reminder to all of those that think they can/should stay home on election day that elections have consequences.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
9 posted on 06/21/2012 7:33:23 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: SoConPubbie

that’s nice but elections still have consequences.


10 posted on 06/21/2012 7:45:03 PM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: newnhdad; SoConPubbie; cripplecreek

No Romney, not now, not ever.


11 posted on 06/21/2012 7:50:32 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Come quickly Lord Jesus.)
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To: Uncle Slayton
They must not simply reinstate DADT, but reinstate the complete ban on Sodomites in our military and they must do it before our next war or we will lose our next war.

Ain't gonna happen. That genie is out of the bottle and isn't going back in.

Consequences of losing elections.

12 posted on 06/21/2012 7:51:53 PM PDT by Drew68 (I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Mitt Romney has a considerable record as a gay activist.

In fact, it is purely speculative, but when I look at that head of hair and they way he presents himself to the cameras, I wonder if he’s not hiding in the closet. Unlike Obama, there has been no mention of any leaks or escapades. But I still can’t help wondering.

It would explain a lot.


13 posted on 06/21/2012 7:54:02 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
hogwash....these people better get a clue and get it fast....

I know gay people are in the service and I know they have been for some time...

that does not mean we need to know about it....just like I don't care to know the sex lives of heteros....

14 posted on 06/21/2012 7:54:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: newnhdad
that’s nice but elections still have consequences.

Yes they do, and the sad truth of the matter is that with a Romney Presidency, it will destroy the GOP as the home of conservatives.

As his record as a Progressive Liberal, a liar, and a political charlatan shows, he will move to the left and make Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon look like arch conservatives.

He will govern as a moderate Democrat, no better.
15 posted on 06/21/2012 8:05:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They had dam well better be careful to consider it.

Heres why...

The LYING political leadership bullied Military leadership...that is a fact.

The LYING political leadership (many republicans included) made sure the surveys were RIGGED because they ONLY focused on one thing...”Will you do your job” and of course the answer is yes. They then went out and LIED that all of us in the military APPROVED of gays and SUPPORTED it.

We do NOT.

They know this.


16 posted on 06/21/2012 8:23:29 PM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: Uncle Slayton

They shouldn’t reinstate DADT. They should try to put it back the way it was BEFORE DADT. If these idiots on our side really believed in their positions they would have no hesitation in fighting to put it back the way it was. They are coward statists who really don’t believe in these issues.
***Exactly. It was Clintoon who forced DADT. It was basically the first thing he acted on, although he never once mentioned it during his campaign. That’s because if he did, he wouldn’t have been elected.


17 posted on 06/21/2012 8:25:47 PM PDT by Kevmo (SUCINOFRAGOPWIASS: Shut Up, CINOs; Free Republic Aint a GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Yes they do, and the sad truth of the matter is that with a Romney Presidency, it will destroy the GOP as the home of conservatives.
***I am almost starting to look forward to this. The last time it happened, the Republican party split off the Whig party over social conservative issues. We socons have a way of attracting those who join a parade so that they can lead it.


18 posted on 06/21/2012 8:30:12 PM PDT by Kevmo (SUCINOFRAGOPWIASS: Shut Up, CINOs; Free Republic Aint a GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: Drew68
Ain't gonna happen. That genie is out of the bottle and isn't going back in. Consequences of losing elections.

Romney winning in 2008 would have fully opened up the military to homosexuality sooner than Obama.

Mitt was pushing it almost 20 years ago.

19 posted on 06/21/2012 8:47:43 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP now goes for it's Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12

do not believe that, homosexuals were not even pushing for open homosexually to be out of the closet in the military. I would like a little evidence to back up your statement...Back in the 70’s and 80’s I had 2 son’s in the military. Lets not forget DADT, Even Clinton had to settle for that...


20 posted on 06/21/2012 8:57:43 PM PDT by goat granny
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