There’s a lot of understandable anger being expressed here at TAH and other military blogs about the treachery being enacted in Congress against the military community. Believe me, I agree that, once again, America has betrayed its military and the anger is righteous and expected. But as an old soldier in his seventies, I can assure you it’s nothing new. What concerns me, reading the comments here at TAH is the attitude by some of you who say the Republicans are equally responsible; yes, you are correct to a point insomuch as those Republicans we refer to as RINO’s are the ones who sided with the Democrats to stick it to you. But you should keep in mind that it was the most conservative Republicans in the House and Senate who opposed this move. <\/p>\n
I would only caution that those of you who see no difference between the two parties don’t throw out the baby with the bath water by deciding not to vote for Republicans in the future. Just make sure you vote for CONSERVATIVE Republicans. For those of you claiming political equivalence between Democrats and Republicans, I say, \u201cFine, vote for conservative Democrats if you can find any of that species which for all practical purposes is damned near extinct. And even if a Democrat is personally conservative, he\u2019ll vote with the rest of the donkey herd because of peer pressure and party support at election time.<\/p>\n
As for the sentiment expressed by one commenter about not voting at all, not ever, that’s like throwing away all your weapons in a firefight, troop. It’s a sure way to help your side get overrun in the present battle and to insure your side never wins the war. If nothing else, your voting cancels out at least one vote cast by some low-information scumbag who’s definitely going to vote every chance he gets to make sure the political whores he votes for keep handing out the goodies and screwing the warriors out of what they’ve rightfully earned through blood and sacrifice. It\u2019s a fact Jack that the best weapon you have in this fight is your vote so you should use it effectively as you would your primary weapon in battle: quit re-electing RINO\u2019s because of their seniority and their ability to deliver pork. More importantly, get yourself and other military friends more actively involved in electing the right kind of politicians, conservatives with military backgrounds, the more service time the better.<\/p>\n
I know I can\u2019t possibly be as angry as those of you who, along with your families, will directly suffer financially for this traitorous legislation. But I do have family actively serving who are career, with four deployments and another approaching, so I am understandably angry and intend to do my best to help get rid of the remaining Democrat senator in my state. That will be one less liberal Democrat in the Senate so it\u2019s a step forward on the long march.<\/p>\n
Better yet, my guy is ex-infantry with two combat tours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"