{"id":20801,"date":"2010-10-11T18:17:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20801"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T12:40:52","slug":"the-vfw-pac-issue-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20801","title":{"rendered":"The VFW PAC issue revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

My friends have weighed in on the VFW PAC issue, which I started last week<\/a>. Mr Wolf from Blackfive<\/a> has a post at Breitbart’s Big Peace<\/a> and he’s still advocating that you to burn your VFW membership card. Well, I can’t do that – mine is aluminum. Yes, I’ve been a member that long – nearly twenty years as a Life Member.<\/p>\n

That guy who calls himself Mothax, has a really well-written post up at The Burn Pit<\/a> about the pitfalls of a VSO trying to remain non-partisan in a political environment. He approaches the subject from an historical perspective without dick-punching the VFW.<\/p>\n

Me? I’m sticking it out for reform of the VFW PAC. I don’t know what their procedure is for endorsing a candidate, but obviously it’s wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. But, I don’t think that the answer is to disband a hundred-year-old organization. I’m also sure that organizations like VoteVets and IAVA are salivating at the thought of of the 2.1 million members of VFW, and their dues, in the wind. <\/p>\n

And, admit it, all of those guys who wrote that THIS is the reason they won’t join the VFW now, were never going to join anyway. I’ve seen the power of blogs in relation to certain organizations, and I’m putting my money on the folks who stick rather than the folks who bail on the VFW.<\/p>\n

Mr. Wolf says the VFW has kicked the can down the road by putting off for the next convention what they should be doing today. It’s only kicking the can down the road if that’s what we let them do. Mr. Wolf has a point, and I’ll admit that resigning my membership was my first reaction – but then I realized that it would probably do more damage than good.<\/p>\n

It also worries me that some of the leftists have joined in the feeding frenzy. <\/p>\n

But I’ll tell you what, as a twenty-year Life Member of the VFW, when a receptionist at the VFW PAC takes my name and number, and I’m like the VFW’s last ally on the internet…they’d better call me back. They’ve already called Bev Perlson back and she’s not even a member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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