Posted on 03/06/2016 3:12:59 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Decorated veterans are going after Donald Trump’s character in hard-hitting new Florida ads designed to drive down the Republican presidential front-runner’s popularity to stop him winning the crucial winner-take-all state on March 15.
In new attack ads, released by conservative nonprofit American Future Fund within a multimillion-dollar rotation, two veterans, Afghanistan Special Forces Commander Lt. Col. Michael Waltz and retired Vietnam pilot and prisoner of war Lt. Col. Tom Hanton, hit Trump for dodging the draft in Vietnam, “serving only himself,” and for criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being captured during the Vietnam War.
American Future Fund spokesman Stuart Roy said in an email to The Hill Saturday that the group is swapping out its current ads in the Florida Panhandle for the new veteran ads and said it "will be adding new money there on Monday, as well."
“The Panhandle is full of active and retired military. Think Eglin Air Force Base, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Hulburt Field, Naval Support Activity Panama City, and Tyndall Air Force Base.”
In one of the ads, Waltz tells viewers to put a stop Trump's campaign.
“Donald Trump hasn’t served this country a day in his life, essentially dodged the draft in Vietnam through multiple deferments,” Waltz says, speaking directly into the camera. “All Donald Trump has served is himself. Don’t let Donald Trump fool you. Look into his real record and stop Trump now."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Not lying, stretching the truth.
” essentially dodged the draft in Vietnam through multiple deferments”
receiving deferments was never the same as draft dodging unless the deferments were obtained illegitimately for the specific purpose of avoiding the draft.
Trump had his own Viet Nam:
“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,’ he said of sexually transmitted diseases. ‘It is a dangerous world out there,’ he said. ‘It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era.’ ‘It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.’
Trump had his own Viet Nam:
“I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world,’ he said of sexually transmitted diseases. ‘It is a dangerous world out there,’ he said. ‘It’s scary, like Vietnam. Sort of like the Vietnam-era.’ ‘It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave soldier.’
Cruz could have volunteered. He did not. He let other people go in his place.
“Bone spurs?”
They can be very painful and limiting. A few years ago a LEO buddy had to retire early cuz he could no longer limp around. Bone spurs in his feet. Operations on each foot, and a pretty long recovery time.
Which is why he plays golf, though it is a bit perplexing, since he still has sex and doesn’t wear ugly pants.
He didn’t lose his legs. I’m sure he drives around on the golf course....a lot different than crawling around the jungle slowing down and putting in danger those who serve with you. If he was medically disqualified by military doctors, this is a non issue.
John McCain received citations but not one of his citations described as required in military manuals a specific act of heroism, not one. The reason he received the citations is because he was an Admiral’s boy and nothing more than that.
McCain is highly decorated with empty citations. He was and is a fraud.
Yes he suffered as a POW but so did countless others who were wounded and left to die in the jungles of Vietnam.
Suffering is not a citable action for heroism unless it was to save lives or accomplish a critical mission. All of this is clearly described in military manuals for citations. I posted direct links and sources last year that left zero room for argument.
People that learn the truth about McCain become angry and angrier still when he calls anyone supporting Trump ‘crazy’. He called the 15,000 Trump supporters in AZ “crazies”. And you can bet he’s cackling over those like Beck who are insinuating that Trump supporters are Nazis.
-—Where did little Rubio and Ted serve again?
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Ted’s dad fled to Canada during the draft.
It was too high. My brother also had a high lottery number, thank God.
Did the Canadian and the Cuban file for selective service?
Trump’s exposure to the draft, however, didn’t last long. Two months later, on Sept. 17, 1968, he reported for an armed forces physical examination and was medically disqualified, according to the ledger from his local Selective Service System draft board in Jamaica, N.Y., now in the custody of the National Archives.
You don’t understand Draft Lottery Numbers, do you?
In order for him to be drafted with that number, essentially every eligible man in the entire country in that “year group” would have been drafted.
It was too high. My brother also had a high lottery number, thank God.
Didn’t realize the numbers corresponded to day of the year (birthdate). My mistake.
Are you saying that there is actual evidence of Bill Clinton's military deferments?
While that is indeed huge, I'm still waiting to see John F'n Kerry's military medical records that substantiated his 3 purple hearts that resulted in his early out.............
Can ya help this brutha out?
“Just which candidate are they pitching for?”
Hillary, naturally.
He may be too young to understand that lottery system. I thank God my brother got a high number. We spent a horrible summer (I don’t remember which year - blanked it out) worrying that he would be drafted - and die needlessly in a war that was not fought to be won.
No I didn’t understand - Looked up and realized the number corresponded to birthday. Makes sense now. Amazing at 55 years old I am still learning things I should have in the public school system.
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