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   From: steele.david@verizon.net.REMOVE   
      
   |> |I mean just today on Meet the Press after days of bragging that he was   
   |> |going to face down Rep.Charles Rangel the RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie   
   |> |begged off appearing face to face (man to man, if you can still call   
   |> |Ed a man after this?) with Rangel at the very last moment!   
   |> |   
   |> |Well I think I can understand it, as after all Rangel is a Korean War   
   |> |Veteran (who won a Bronze Star and got a Purple Heart) while the only   
   |> |action Ed saw in his life was parking cars in the Capital Parking Lot.   
   |> |   
   |> |And as we all know most COWARDS hate to be seen with Real Heros,which   
   |> |(when they stand next to them) make them look even smaller and more   
   |> |COWARDLY than they normally do!   
   |>   
   |> Actually I am disappointed in the lack of democrats who are   
   |> serving NOW.  In fact the number of democrats younger than 45   
   |> with military experience is sorely lacking.  Among my age group,   
   |> we are the last democrats to serve in numbers.  As the '70s   
   |> moved, fewer and fewer democrats served.  More so in the '80s.   
   |> In the '90s the Clinton's cutting the military in half forced   
   |> most the democrats out (it was just easier to go other places and   
   |> it was not popular among democrats to serve).   
   |>   
   |The is a ration of shit, I dont think you have one peice of data to back   
   |this up.   
   |SO PUT UP the DATA OR SHUT UP   
   |> If we look at congress, there are 60 republicans and 40   
   |> democrats.  What is really depressing is that most of the   
   |> democrats served in either WW2 or Korea.  There are no democrats   
   |> who have served (who in congress) in the last 10 years.   
   |>   
   |> Just a snap shot, California has 54 members of congress.  Only   
   |> four have been in the military, all republicans.  It does not   
   |> make us look that good.   
   |>   
   |> The problem is that we democrats have turned are backs on serve.   
   |> We "say" nice things but for the most part dislike getting our   
   |> hands dirty.   
   |You think America is going to believe this horse shit.  Just because most   
   |military people have decided to go in to politics does not mean, that the   
   |military is mostly made up of republicans.   
   |   
   |God help those statistics.. God Bless America   
      
   I have over 22 years of experience, being now retired Navy.  Just   
   personal experience tells me that the military, those CURRENTLY   
   serving, is skewed heavily to conservatives (both democrat and   
   republican).  There was a reason that the Gore campaign did not   
   want military absentee voters counted in 2000.   
      
   There seems to be a bit more democrats in the ranks of the Navy   
   and AF.  Army and Marines are hugely conservative, religious and,   
   for the most part, republican.   
      
   Each year I served it seemed that I have fewer democrats around   
   me.  After Bill Clinton cut the military in half, it seemed like   
   democrats disappeared.  Among the kids I deal with, while most   
   are not yet "political' (what young person is), they tend to   
   heavily conservative in their beliefs.  Once you hit the five   
   year mark (most tours are for either 4 or 6 years), the troops   
   really become conservative.  The NCOs (petty officers and   
   sergeants) and commissioned officers are far more conservative   
   these days than when I first came on board in the mid '70s.   
      
   Likewise, we are not seeing many military folks elected.  The   
   numbers are dropping in congress.  Each new class brings less in   
   as the older members retire.  The democrats have no new military   
   folks joining their ranks in congress.  And most of their folks   
   tend to be WW2 or Korea war types.   
      
   What has happened to my party?   
      
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