{"id":32473,"date":"2012-10-19T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32473"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:20:47","slug":"should-veterans-endorse-candidates-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32473","title":{"rendered":"Should veterans endorse candidates Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to the Military Times<\/a> which has become nothing more than a mouthpiece of the Democrat Party in the closing weeks of the election. Anyway they report that the Romney campaign announced a list of flag officers who have said that they support Romney. VTWoody sent us the link<\/a> to the list, which he says seems a bit like overkill. And it does…I didn’t bother to count them. <\/p>\n

But the Military Times goes out to find someone who will criticize the officers for their support, they turn to the previously mentioned Center for New American Security;<\/p>\n

The Center for New American Security conducted a survey and found that Romney\u2019s level of support remained unchanged when respondents were told that \u201cmost members of the military and veterans\u201d support him.<\/p>\n

According to the study, the opposite was true for Obama, whose support ticked up significantly when a different group of respondents were told that \u201cmost members of the military and veterans\u201d support Obama.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s authors say this is probably because many voters already associate the military with Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince voters might already expect veterans to support the GOP candidate, Republicans may not benefit much by the additional endorsement,\u201d the study concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Make up your mind, is it that our credibility is eroding, or because we’re doing what everyone expects? Dinguses.<\/p>\n

And then a parting shot, after quoting Dempsey once again;<\/p>\n

Some experts worry that senior officer endorsements threaten to politicize the military.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a lot of talk in the national security community about [how] this harms the reputation of the military as the neutral servant of the state,\u201d said Richard Kohn, who teaches military history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt also sends a very partisan message to the active-duty force that it is OK to be partisan.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is OK to be partisan while you’re on active duty, douche-nozzle. These peckerwoods, including Dempsey have scared the active duty force away from voting with their incessant blather about being non-partisan. Gee, I wonder why. Where were they when Jon Soltz, Wesley Clark and Paul Rieckhoff were endorsing candidates?<\/p>\n

And the Military Times machine wasn’t critical at all when they wrote this article when a purported former Army Ranger<\/a> who supports Obama this year spoke at the Democrat convention asking for active duty support for Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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