Thursday, August 18, 2011

GOP Hopefuls-- No Skin In The Game

Dupuy: Forget Rick Perry — Mitt Romney is perfect for GOP - Pekin, IL - Pekin Daily Times: "...The first reason is he has five gorgeous, able-bodied adult sons who’ve never spent a day in the military. Actually, none of the as-yet announced Republican candidates have children serving in the military. We’ve been in two wars now for nearly a decade each and yet the all-volunteer force is entirely made up of Americans not spawned from GOP candidates. For the last 30 years at least, the Republicans have been relentlessly, uniformly hawkish — but mostly with other peoples’ children. This disconnect was made evident in the ‘08 election when soldiers donated money to candidate Barack Obama 6-1 over Sen. John McCain..."

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