[AnAmericanMother]

For someone that spent 30 years building a reputation of being a staunch supporter of "our troops", this out-of-the-blue "about face" makes no sense.

Do you suppose somebody is holding something over his head?

[maica]

He volunteered to go to Vietnam, and somehow he seems to carry a lot of guilt that he is expressing by allying himself with Kerry, McKinney, Ray McGovern, Dennis Kucinich, etc. I wonder what he did in Vietnam that he carries such guilt for.

[Mrs. Ranger]

"Do you suppose somebody is holding something over his head?"

Honestly, I don't know *what*'s going on. All I can tell you is that his actions of the last year or so are completely out-of-character. For 30 years, D or not, he was a staunch supporter of the troops and kept a low profile. National, schmashimal, he's elected from *this* area and you can't tell me that, after 32 years, he didn't *know* that bad-mouthing our "troops" won't fly here.

I'm a blue-star mom of 2, military sister and aunt. Wanna guess who I'm voting for? I've got 7 or 8 votes lined up for Irey already and that's just "family".