Ignore Media and Polls - this article explains why...

[busty1]

Originally posted by AcidMaX


Being a veteran, I served during the first gulf war (did not serve overseas, I was stateside). But I saw how after Bush left office, how the democrats ruined our military downsized, cut our benefits and fucked the retirees who have served 20 years in the miltary.

Crime & Justice are very important to me. I see too many people getting off or mimimum sentences because our prisons are overcrowded etc. I think its time to put fear in people who commit crimes. For example I heard a lot of whining on another board yesterday about two girls who were killed running from the police. That is sad, but these two young women should have known better, its a lesson to othes to not commit a crime, death could be a result.

I take issue with these two points:
first as A retired vetran I can tell you that concurrent reciept was passed by the democrates. Bush refused to fund it untill last year when the dems attached the funding to other spending that Bush didnt want to cut. That said, Bush still made it a 10 year phase in so a large % of Vietnam vetrans will never live to see the full amount that they have deserved. Kerry has publicly stated he will make full payments if elected with no phase in.
also worth noting the largest pay raise in the history of the us forces was given by Carter A democrate. Daddy Bush trimmed the army not the dems. Down sizing and the base closure list was drawn up way before Clinton got elected. It happened during his term but was set in motion way before than

As far as crime and justice go Clinton put together a program to put more cops on the streets. Bush is now trying to pull the funding for that.

Its popular to call the media liberal biased now a days, but to me it seems the exact oppisite. The media had big fun with Carters brother billy (for those of us old enough to remember Billy Beer) and had no problem labeling Clinton "Slick Willy" But rarley is mentioned the antics of The Bush Daughters Known for Drunken Partying and Bush himself having the dubious distinction of being the first Elected US president to be convicted of DWI. Doesnt really fit in with his all american god fearing image does it?