GIs Trust Bush Over Kerry by 3 to 1

[John Ashcroft]

Note to future Democrat presidential candidates: It doesn't pay to parrot false, treasonous hearsay in congressional "testimony" that communists exploit to torture American POWs.

(And it probably didn't help when Al Gore's mob of lawyers tried to exclude servicemembers' ballots in 2000.)
Yet another new poll shows that members of the military and their families overwhelmingly would trust President Bush over Sen. John Kerry as commander in chief.

The National Annenberg Election Survey released today showed that 69 percent trusted Bush more, and only 24 percent trusted Kerry more.

Not surprisingly, 43 percent of the military sample said they were Republican, 27 percent described themselves as independent and only 19 percent were Democrat.

The poll did not ask the respondents who they supported for president because of a 1948 law that bans asking servicemen such questions. But draw your own conclusions.

Link: here

and here

[Seshmeister]

I've seen GI's interviewed during the latest war and I would be surprised if a lot of them could mark an X on their ballot paper.

Poor guys seem to have been let down badly by your education system and with few other choices go off to be trained in how to kill people.

That they toe the line in voting for the guy who will piss away the most money on a bloated army is hardly surprising.

[John Ashcroft]

Typical "enlightened" socialist elitist response.

Don't know where you're looking, but I promise your characterization of the American militaryman is grossly flawed.

Oh, and how's the old U.K. educational system doing these days? How's that old teen pregnancy thingy doing. How's about STDs? How's about drug use in the UK? Don't know if I'd be throwing stones while living in a glass house...

[Seshmeister]

JA takes the bait..

I'm throwing stones living in a house with glass windows maybe but not a glass house.

Our teen pregnancy is worse than most of Europe but better than the US.

Cheers!

[Warham]

Originally posted by Seshmeister
I've seen GI's interviewed during the latest war and I would be surprised if a lot of them could mark an X on their ballot paper.

Poor guys seem to have been let down badly by your education system and with few other choices go off to be trained in how to kill people.

That they toe the line in voting for the guy who will piss away the most money on a bloated army is hardly surprising.

Ignorant comments, Sesh.

[tobinentinc]

I'm surpised it's only 3 to 1, every GI i've talked to supports Bush.