Its dated a few months back, but its still a current thread there>
Posted on 10/13/2004 6:32:01 PM PDT by quidnunc
October 11 editions of Military Times publications (Navy Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, Air Force Times) carried an astounding story not likely to get much coverage in the establishment press.
Staff writer Gordon Trowbridge wrote as follows:
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Finally, the Military Times survey may be telling Kerry and the Democrats that a hefty military majority sees through the careful veneer of moderation to the deeply ingrained leftism that drives him.
Kerry has been hostile to the military probably since Yale — certainly so since he returned from Vietnam, led peacenik demonstrations, decried the American military as reeking with war criminals, and first ran for Congress. His 20-year Senate record — marking him as the Senate's most liberal member — is one of uninterrupted hostility to almost every military weapons system and almost every military enterprise proposed during that time. (A 1984 Kerry campaign memo has the candidate saying: "We are continuing a defense buildup that is consuming our resources with weapons systems that we don't need and can't use.")
Kerry voted in 1991 against the first Gulf War; he voted a year ago against $87 billion to continue funding — and backing troops in — the second one. Again and again he has voted to slash, by many billions, appropriations for an intelligence community he blames Bush for undermining. Repeatedly — perhaps most recently in the second debate — Kerry states that Bush fired the Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki, for saying the U.S. needed additional troops in Iraq, when Shinseki's retirement was announced 10 months before he called for more troops.
The left detests the military, and the military knows it — and reciprocates, as the Military Times survey overwhelmingly testifies.
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(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...
A "chasm" only to a mediateer....
Bush leads Democratic Senator John Kerry 73 percent to 18 percent in the voluntary survey of 4,165 active-duty, National Guard, and reserve subscribers . . . .
Ironic that the 'rats tried to scare people into voting for Kerry by floating the "Bush will institute draft" lie, when in fact if Kerry's elected we will probably have to have a draft to maintain our military strength, what with all the veterans who will leave the service and others who will not volunteer to avoid serving under such an untrustworthy and dishonorable CIC.........
President Bush respects them to much to use them.
Of all of us they have the right to vote however they want. If they want to write in Clinton that would be OK with me.
It is my personal experience that our highly pigmented men and women of the military think very similar to myself, with similar values, only they are usually more polite than I am. I would expect that you are wrong in assuming they would follow an ethnic voting block.
The Rep/Dem Conservative vs Liberal battle we are seeing today is part of a culture war. Married white males break out 72% Bush 28% Kerry - similar at Bush/Gore 2000. Military almost identical. Tough to get over 75% of anything.
God Bless Our Troops - We Are So Proud Of Them
Diva's Husband
I did present the data, see my post #15. The fact that Black americans represented nearly 20% of the military and historically have voted 95% democrat, doing the math reveals exactly where the 18% for Kerry comes from.
It isn't a guess, nor is it anecdotal. It's fact.
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