Posted on 07/21/2006 12:32:54 PM PDT by grapeape
Well it started with this, We have a word for fake republicans called RINO.
We need an acronym for someone who joins the military just for the political points. The people like Kennedy, Kerry, Carter, Murtha, and this clown need some kind of name tag so we know who we are dealing with. This technique is very common now and taught in college political science classes.
Grapeape
THEN ALL OF THESE POSTS POPPED UP SO i MOVED IT OVER HERE.
here are some of them:
To: grapeape Need some help with this one -- How about MOPHO - Military Only for Political and (Insert word with H here) Opporunity
41 posted on 07/21/2006 2:09:13 PM CDT by americaprd
Ideas:
ASOPP - Armed Services Only for Political Purposes SOP - Served Only for Politics PMS - Politically Minded Service (i.e. He put in 6 years of PMS) SFU - Service For the Uniform 46 posted on 07/21/2006 2:11:54 PM CDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.) To: americaprd Need some help with this one -- How about MOPHO - Military Only for Political and (Insert word with H here) Opporunity How about Military Only for Personal Honor and Opportunity?
48 posted on 07/21/2006 2:13:24 PM CDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
Easy. MINO= Military in name only.
50 posted on 07/21/2006 2:13:57 PM CDT by beltfed308 (Nanny Statists are Ameba's.)
Doing a "Kerry"
SOB.
Soldier Of Bulls--t.
How about just plain "A-Hole"?????
In a way, this sort of thing has pretty deep roots. So do crass Machiavellian tactics of course.
Julius Caesar did the same thing, as did most noble Romans. It was part of the "cursus honorum", which ambitious noblemen took.
Old Julius found that he had a talent for it, unlike a lot of others.
The US is in a lot of ways quite Roman in its institutions.
MAPUS = Military And Political Uniform Stainers
PMFPP - Prior Military For Political Purposes
PMSS - Prior Military Self Service
SSV - Self Serving Veteran
POV - Politics Only Veteran
I think one has always existed: REMF.
How about just 'MINO'?
Military In Name Only..
WINO Warrior in name only
Just kidding...oo rah!
How about STFU = Service Time For the Uniform?
PEE
Politically exploiting enlistee
PEE - NOW THAT IS GREAT!!!!
QUISLING:
Questionable
Underclassmen
Involved in
Service for
Locking
Influence in
National
Government
I personally think we need to be more specific and identify these folks as as those who later badmouth the military. There are plenty of true republicans/conservatives who have military records (albeit most of them joined because of their values, and not for political advantage.). As a platoon leader and company commander, I would always tell my new soldiers that I was aware people joined the Army for many different reasons, adventure, education, parents made them, nothing else to do, etc. I advised them that I didn't care why they joined, I only cared that they did their job while they were there. To be intellectually honest and personally consistent, I can't badmouth someone for joining just for political advantage, provided they did their jobs while they were there.
MOOSE
Military is Only an Opportunity for the Selfserving to be Elected
Add Gore to that list. He was going to flee to Canada when Al Gore Sr. talked him out of it.
Daddy Gore groomed his son for the White House.
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