Merlin1047 said:Because I will not have some cheesy bastard impugning the record of those who fought and bled and died and then turn around and try to use the reputation of those same people to get elected.
There may be things more important to you and that's fine. But there is nothing more important to me. Perhaps flying home with my co-pilot's brains spattered all over me tends to make me a little touchy about people who seek to cheapen our service solely to garner votes.
I guess my point is not that it is not important, it is important. But it is not an important reason for most people not to vote for him. If you are truly so upset with him for doing this, I can understand your anger. But if it makes you feel better to see him lose, than I would concentrate on other issues that non vets are going to be more convinced by.
As you know, I am not a kerry or Bush supporter, So I am coming from a unbiased (in terms of bush v kerry) perspective. I think all the attention being given by republicans to the whole purple hearts is precisely what Kerry supporters want. Why? Because if they are talking about something as inconsequential (to most americans, but not you and other vets) as whether he was just kinda hurt or really hurt, or whether he did or did not do such and such a thing in vietnam 40 years ago, then they are not talking about the actual policies and legislation that Kerry supports that most of america does not agree with. In other words, the GOP is pumping out the smoke and holding up the mirrors FOR kerry, and he is loving it.
And again, his actually stance against the vietnam war and his protesting of it is a completly different view. That actual shows how he would govern as president. The specifics of what he did in vietnam tell us next to nothing about how he would govern.
Travis