Dem/S and the Military
Dem/S in this area are overwhelmingly anti-military, anti-security, anti-gun. At the national leadership level, still true. If the reference is to the recently elected (and very junior) blue-dog Dem/S that the Dem/S leadership put up to beat the Republicans, I can only speak to our local, Jim Webb.
Senator Webb was Secretary of the Navy during Tailhook and ridiculed the women. Not handled well at all as male, officer sailors acted inappropriately and female, officer sailors did the same. Who got canned was a crap shoot. He was supposedly a hero in Vietnam. His son is in service. He shoots but as I understand it at least some of his own club members see him as sort of a ZUMBO. He is STRONGLY anti-security and anti-military. He writes/wrote pornography. He refused common courtesy to the POTUS. He has been a Democrat, Republican and is again a Democrat because it suits him, IOW he is an opportunist. IOW he is untrustworthy.
Blue-dog once meant CONSERVATIVE. He certainly isn't a conservative. He didn't speak conservative values in the counter to the POTUS's state of the union. Because he is what he is I can do nothing but think that he is not my friend. I can't believe he will be a friend to gun owners. BUT he is the best of the local Dem/S. So, what exactly do you expect me to believe? That the DNC is for me? No. I don't believe that. Not for a minute.
Day by day I am more and more convinced that the DNC, the leadership and the rank and file of the party who do more than simply vote in elections, are not working for my best interests. They don't trust me and so I can never trust them. They want to take what little I've earned and saved from me. They want to pursue policies in taxation, in property rights, in every way that will reduce the quality of life my children and grandchildren will have. That they don't care about the security and future of this country more than they care about their own personal power.
In my years of service, I served under Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. I can tell you that in every instance there was a Democrat as POTUS there seemed to be a chill wind blowing towards the military.
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