{"id":30288,"date":"2012-06-07T06:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30288"},"modified":"2012-06-07T06:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T10:31:26","slug":"tah-in-politico-that-election-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30288","title":{"rendered":"TAH in Politico: That election thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the week that I declare that TAH isn’t going to participate in the upcoming election and the campaign, Austin Wright of Politico<\/a> calls me for an interview on the election and the campaign. It was influenced by the bit we did on the Gallup poll<\/a> late last month which says veterans are carrying Romney in the polls and Obama’s attempts to curry votes<\/a> from veterans.<\/p>\n

So this is what I told Austin;<\/p>\n

Jonn Lilyea, a conservative blogger who has amassed a loyal following among veterans, said many of his readers are currently unemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cVeterans are starting to see that we do need to be a bloc of votes, and we do need to vote for our interests,\u201d Lilyea said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to contribute to the debt, but we also don\u2019t want to go into debt ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lilyea said he felt betrayed when Obama put forward a plan to increase fees for TRICARE, the health care program for service members and veterans. The increased fees \u2014 intended to slow the growth of the Pentagon\u2019s ballooning health care costs \u2014 were rejected by the House last month. And the Senate is expected to follow suit.<\/p>\n

Lilyea, a combat veteran, added he\u2019s also disappointed by Romney because he was deferred from the draft during the Vietnam War. \u201cThis is the first time in my lifetime there hasn\u2019t been a veteran to vote for,\u201d Lilyea said. \u201cI\u2019ll probably end up voting for Romney, but I\u2019ll have to hold my nose.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Romney’s non-veteran status isn’t the real issue, though. He’s going to have to prove to veterans that he’s not an “Obama-light”, because he has a reputation as a flip-flopper and makes his “stands” based on opinion polls. Veterans don’t want more unkept promises and Congressional Republicans like Lindsey Graham<\/a> aren’t helping him.<\/p>\n

Like most of you, I find it difficult to find a reason to vote for Romney, but luckily for him, I can find myriad reasons to NOT vote for Obama and most of those reasons have to do with his duplicity on veterans’ issues like his planned Tricare cost increases and his hatchetmen’s cuts to defense. How can you trust a guy who says he wants to cut everyone’s health care costs while he hikes veterans’ healthcare costs? And then tells us that we have to do our part for the country – because, you know, we’ve done so little up until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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