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BAIER: A few more things, Governor. To hear several speakers in Charlotte - and I don't think this is jump (?) - they were essentially saying you don't care about the U.S. military because you didn't mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech. (....) Do you regret opening up this line of attack, now a recurring attack, by leaving out that issue in the speech?

ROMNEY: I only regret you repeating it day in and day out. (LAUGHS)

BAIER: Well I mean, what just came from Charlotte -

ROMNEY: Because when you give a speech, you don't give a laundry list. You talk about the things that uh you think are important.

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The military is not an issue for this election.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

For Romney, there are only two kinds of issues:

1. The economy. That's how he intends to appeal to independents.
2. Social issues. That's how he hopes to hold onto his base.

Obama's unassailable on the military. He's killed OBL, avoided new wars while still prosecuting the ones we're stuck in, and Michele is doing outreach to military wives. Plus, invoking the military will remind voters just how W bungled the wars. Romney's once mentioned support for the military funding in another speech, but wouldn't try to use it at his convention.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle


via Fox News

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BAIER: A few more things, Governor. To hear several speakers in Charlotte - and I don't think this is jump (?) - they were essentially saying you don't care about the U.S. military because you didn't mention U.S. troops and the war in Afghanistan in your nomination acceptance speech. (....) Do you regret opening up this line of attack, now a recurring attack, by leaving out that issue in the speech?

ROMNEY: I only regret you repeating it day in and day out. (LAUGHS)

BAIER: Well I mean, what just came from Charlotte -

ROMNEY: Because when you give a speech, you don't give a laundry list. You talk about the things that uh you think are important.

Just so everyone's totally clear, Romney didn't talk about the military at the convention, so he doesn't think they are important.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

The 1st time in 52 years a candidate didn`t mention our troops (even while they`re in shooting war, presently)....


They mentioned god 16 times though.......

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

For Romney, there are only two kinds of issues:

1. The economy. That's how he intends to appeal to independents.
2. Social issues. That's how he hopes to hold onto his base.

Obama's unassailable on the military. He's killed OBL, avoided new wars while still prosecuting the ones we're stuck in, and Michele is doing outreach to military wives. Plus, invoking the military will remind voters just how W bungled the wars. Romney's once mentioned support for the military funding in another speech, but wouldn't try to use it at his convention.

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ORIGINAL: ShadowMasterTX

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ORIGINAL: SadistDave

The military is not an issue for this election. In fact, he's 100% right. The military is not important to this election cycle except for their votes. Having been in the military, I don't think this is any kind of slight at all. In fact, I think it shows a hell of a lot of confidence in the military.
-SD-

Yet, they believe it is UNDER funded, and needs even more money then they have asked for. Why would they need to drastically increase funding if they feel it is not suffering from any issues?

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

Good for him. You START by just shutting down the entire Air Farce. Paying them unemployment is cheaper than buying them airplanes.

And the Navy and Marines have their own air components anyway, so we're not losing any capability. And since I don't see any congressionally-declared wars ( you know, with rationing and a draft... ), we don't really need an Army, do we?

So, the Navy keeps our SLOC clear. The Marines can go bust heads when needed. And **IF** the Chinese attack, we can draft up an army when we need it.

So, what's the savings in the military budget after we cut out the army and air farce?

Army $244.9 billion
Navy $149.9 billion
Marine Corps $29.0 billion
Air Force $170.6 billion
Defense Intelligence $80.1 billion[10]
Defense Wide Joint Activities $118.7 billion

So, we let's say we need a skeleton army struture to fill out with a draft. Give the Army 5 billion for that, so that's a savings of 240 billion A YEAR. Adding the cuts to the airforce, that's 410 billion a year saved. Since there's less people to pay for, the D and Joint activites, let's just halve them, too... That's another 100 billion.

Giving our total saving, WHILE ENSURING OUR NATION'S SECURITY, of about 500 Billion dollars a year.

Well, the budet is balanced, and we we have a surplus now for universal medicare. The only people who can bitch and moan are those CURRENTLY MAKING MONEY OFF THE STATUS QUO, and we can ignore their feeble protestations their entitlements getting cut.

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ORIGINAL: SadistDave

The military is not an issue for this election. In fact, he's 100% right. The military is not important to this election cycle except for their votes. Having been in the military, I don't think this is any kind of slight at all. In fact, I think it shows a hell of a lot of confidence in the military. They aren't an issue, which means that out of all the fucked up shit that The Failure in Chief has done in the last 3 1/2 years, the military is the one and only thing Obummer hasn't managed to fuck up.

It shows confidence in their support of a Romney victory in November, because he did not feel the need to pander to them and make them a special class of citizens.

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That's a tired, old, transparent Dumbocrat class warfare tactic.

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The folks that serve are not idiots.

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You apparently think they are stupid enough to do just that, which shows how little you and your ilk really think of the men and women in our military.

-SD-