{"id":21004,"date":"2010-10-29T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21004"},"modified":"2010-10-29T13:52:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T17:52:18","slug":"bi-partisanship-ur-doin-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21004","title":{"rendered":"Bi-partisanship; UR doin&#8217; it right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20968\">I wrote that VoteVets called themselves a nonpartisan<\/a> organization which supports veterans regardless of their political stripe, even though in the several years that they&#8217;ve been around the Republican they ever supported was Chuck Hagel several years ago. They&#8217;re always yelling about all of the other organizations&#8217; supposed partisanship, while endorsing only Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly they whine about the American Legion (which doesn&#8217;t endorse candidates), the VFW (whose PAC got shut down this year for endorsing anti-veteran Democrats) and Vets For Freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Vets For Freedom&#8217;s PAC just released their list of endorsements and they&#8217;re endorsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetsforfreedom.org\/pac\/candidates\/marshall.aspx\">Jim Marshall, an incumbent Democrat<\/a> from Georgia&#8217;s 8th district. I don&#8217;t know much about him, but TSO has a big ol&#8217; man-crush on him for the ferocity with which he supports veterans and active duty soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>According to his bio, Marshall took time off from his college career to enlist and serve as an infantryman in Vietnam. Marshall earned two Bronze Star Medals and a Purple Heart and a spot in the Ranger Hall of Fame. Well, ya know it&#8217;s not as tough as that 40-mile walk that Harry Reid had to take to college (while he got countless deferments for his college career) which got Reid Vote Vet&#8217;s support as an honorary veteran. <\/p>\n<p>Someone tell Jon Soltz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votevets.org\/candidates\/\">that&#8217;s how non-partisanship is done<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I wrote that VoteVets called themselves a nonpartisan organization which supports veterans regardless &hellip; <a title=\"Bi-partisanship; UR doin&#8217; it right\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21004\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bi-partisanship; UR doin&#8217; it right<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vets-for-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}