Posted on 08/20/2004 8:59:58 PM PDT by RWR8189
I agree with you wholeheartedly! ;-)
There's kind of a fine line that must be walked here, since George Bush and Dick Cheney did not serve in Vietnam (note I said in Vietnam).
I hope it works. It's amazing, and scary, to me how many military people and families seem to be supporting Kerry-Edwards.
I think there needs to be more focus, by the RNC, by the press (haha), by someone, on Kerry's record NOW.
For instance, I heard Kerry on NPR news attacking President Bush's medicare prescription drug plan. I happen to agree with many of the criticisms, like the govt not being allowed to negotiate prices with the drug companies. However, where was Kerry when the bill was being debated in the Senate? None of the reporters asked what his contribution to passing (or trying to stop) the bill was, and he obviously had a part in it, or should have....
There are plenty of flip-flops and places he has voted against the military and national security in recent history without going back 30-40 years.
I will agree that Kerry does keep bringing it up, and I do agree that it seems to be having an effect. Just worried about that fine line.
Really good point.
I'd like to see a pincer movement. Let the Vets pound him on Viet Nam while at the same time the Republicans pound him on his abysmal Senate record. This would force Kerry to respond on two fronts.
Kerry's fixation on Vietnam is a little weird. Like a lot of radical leftists, he looks at the Vietnam Protests as the Genesis of their movement, a moment where the World Came Together in Shared Consciousness, or whatever.
Perhaps part of John Kerry remains disappointed that the revolution didn't happen as planned, and he desperately wants to defend what they all did, and force America to issue a referendum on what he regards as the most significant event of the 20th century.
It's obvious he still obsesses over it.
I dated this really nice guy for a while. I knew he had been in the military. I did not know he had been a Green Beret - until a friend of mine came up behind him and 'poked' him in the back. Needless to say, that friend never did that again.
'Come gather 'round people
wherever you roam...
And admit that the waters around you have grown,
And accept it, that soon you'll be drenched to the bone!
For the times, they are a 'changin.
...and you'd better start swimming,
or you'll sink like a stone
For the times, they are a 'changin.
Disclaimer: Meant for the consumption of real poets and lovers of real poetry, as opposed to those apeing poets, and lovers thereof, known as springsteen and his boisterous boys of Bayone.
They REALLY need to get (chose 1)
1 A life
2 A clue
3 Laid
That has been my experience too. Had a good friend who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. It was like pulling teeth to get him to talk about it. Eventually I gave up.
My uncle was always hard of hearing, and I never thought anything about it. I knew he served in the Army, but thought it was in peacetime. After he died, my brother told me he was an artilleryman in the Pacific in WWII. My uncle had never said a word about it.
My father-in-law is a retired colonel (USMC) who served 2 tours in 'nam. The only thing I've ever heard him say anything at all about his experiences, is when he indicated the only time he slept on the ground was during wartime.
Mistakes
1) Democrats nominate John Kerry, an anti-war, flip-flopping candidate with a weak political resume.
2) John Kerry focuses the entire campaign on his four (4) months of service in VietNam.
3) John Edwards challenges that if you want to know the character of John Kerry, then just ask the men who served with him. (paraphrase)
4) John O'Neill organizes Swift Vets for Truth as a 527 organization to challenge the Kerry claims and John Kerry responds. (Bush did the opposite for liberal 527's).
This will be the mid-November autopsy of the 2004 Presidential Election.
"And I would humbly submit that the GOP is making a mistake by continuing to focus on Vietnam, rather than focusing on his Senate record."
The GOP isn't focusing on Kerry's service in Vietnam....Kerry is!
I can't even imagine the hurt our soldiers must have felt when their own country couldn't take the time out to welcome them home or even say thank you for your service.
I didn't realize how bad it really was for Vietnam Vets until I witnessed my uncle break down and cry when he saw the way our country welcomed home the soldiers after the first Gulf War. My brother was one of those soldiers and he had our parents and his girlfriend welcoming him home. Although my uncle had huge respect for these soldiers, he couldn't help but be angry and sad that Vietnam Vets didn't get the recognition they so desperately deserved.
My uncle passed away a few years ago and the only way that we can honor these Vietnam Vets is to make sure that no soldier ever experience what they experienced when coming home from war.
There's nothing wrong with running on a war record, except when you spat on your fellow vets and achieved a purple heart with a self-inflicted nick cured by a tweaser and a bandaid.
Boy, it's amazing how dumb the dem's think we are.
(I just hope we don't prove them right.)
ping
Kennedy's PT boat was cut in half by a Japanese destroyer. Inattentive at his comand and should have been relieved of duty/court martialed. Kennedy was no war hero either, but he did have class. Kerry in reality, has neither of these except the ability to repeatedly lie and use others to advance his shameful career. SBprone, my response is not meant to be sarcastic.I just wanted to describe what happened to PT 109 and how kennedy should have been dealt with in the incident. (Kennedy's are above the law so they think.) Bush/Cheney 2004
I'm wondering who on Kerry's campaign came up with the brilliant idea of making his 4 months in Vietnam the cornerstone of his campaign. This will certainly be the end of their career.
Fred's got some good lines here...
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