what we're seeing is the self-destruction of the 'rats...most of them hate the military, and seemingly hate us veterans even more; yet they try to pretend they like us in order to get our votes (oh, btw, they also think we're stupid enough to believe them). The thing is, they have no idea of the military or veterans' perspectives on things and thus continually shoot themselves in the foot publicly (just as you noted) when they try to talk about anything of a military nature...it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and frustrating, no?
Now that you mention they think we are stupid. Frank (lastname) of the Gallup polling organization was on C-Span last Friday I believe. He was explaining why Gallup uses "Likely" voters rather than "registered" voters or "all adults" to a seminar of journalists so they could properly devine the results of various polls. He said the difference between "Registered" & "Likely" voters was that a likely voter was more educated and that "likely" voters trend 5-7% more GOP, hence, Republicans are more educated. BTW: the ANES report (American National Election Survey) shows Republicans at 39% College Degree, 27% for Independents and 22% for Democrats.