SERIOUSLY!!!!!!! THIS IS NOT THE TIME IN HISTORY TO TEACH THE PARTY A LESSON. DON’T GIVE THE MEN AND WOMEN ON THE FRONT LINES THE BIG FINGER BY HANDING THE WH TO HILLARY OR OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I have one child, and he is now an adult in the U.S. Army. He just spent his 25th birthday in a freezing hooch in Afghanistan. He spent his 23rd in a tent in Iraq, which was probably like old times, because he had turned 21 in Iraq. Make no mistake about my concern for American troops; it is real, it is overwhelming, it is enduring and it is very, very personal.)
I will not be led to believe that John McCain cares about American troops much more than Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barak Obama, other than that he will publicly exhibit less disdain for them. Were John McCain to inadvertently lose the veneer of his "support for the troops," then his media-conferred eternal war hero status would avail him very little, and the self-deluded within the GOP would turn their backs on this man who has consoistently made our active-duty troops' mission(s) increasingly difficult (while burnishing his own "maverick credentials"). Unlike the 'rat candidates who also hamstring the mission, McCain knows how to wave the bloody BDU in front of select audiences. What McCain did in regard to POW-MIA issues along with his good friend John Kerry is a damning testament to how much he "cares." If John McCain perceives personal benefit from punting the WOT, he'd punt the WOT faster than you can say "Keating," and sacrifices past/future be damned.
As for fighting communism, there is apparently nothing left in either major political party to fight it with other than another form of communism. Sort of a Sunni-Shia lineup. McCain and the remora-like Mike Huckabee (symbiosis in action) both spout milk-sop manifestos of watered-down socialist statism in quantities that would do FDR proud. If a person is going to pick a hill to die on in the war against communism (or the corollary of oligarchy), John McCain is among the very least deserving of the sacrifice.
I will no longer let them - to paraphrase Al Gore - play on my fears. If John McCain and the GOP think they can hold active duty troops as some sort of hostage in exchange for my vote, they don't know me, my wife or my son.
Mr. niteowl77
Please thank your son for his service to our nation. And thank you and your wife for your sacrifices during this time.
Maybe a revolution is what is needed.
I believe it has been a very well planned strategy that the damn dems have unfurled upon this nation - to control the nominations of both parties - giving us a lose/lose proposition in the Presidential “elections” and guaranteeing, therefore, Hitlary’s seizure of power. The Dems have evidently successfully executed a strategy of massive Dem registrations in order to vote in the Republican primaries all over the nation for Traitor McCain. That is the only explanation for his “lead” in the “polls” or at this point in the primary picture.
So we would have as our choice:
- Bill/Hill Clinton - (along with Strobe Talbott, and the entire troop of communist/Marxist destroyers in that group)
- McCain - a person whom I believe was compromised during his time in that VietNamese prison and has actually been a Manchurian type “agent” since then
Clinton/McCain = traitors who are QUALIFIED only to be put on trial for TREASON against this country.
There HAS TO BE ANOTHER SOLUTION SHOULD THESE BE OUR CHOICES. Both for your son and all who are our heroic ones in our armed forces sake and for this nation’s civilian population who shall become slaves should either person be “elected”.
Like you, I believe this is NOT a choice we should tolerate.