Elections are coming…

The 2014 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested in this election. PLEASE get out and VOTE!!!

A movement has been started by our armed forces to get out the vote in 2014. The President, the Commander-in-Chief, has made the Rules of Engagement (ROE) so difficult, that our troops are often killed before they can even get permission to fight. It’s bad enough that we have 1400-1700 boots on the ground in Iraq with NO SOFA, but now we’re sending 3000 troops to Liberia to ‘combat’ Ebola? That is NOT the troops jobs, nor are they being properly trained or equipped (from the info I’m getting).  The President, with his Democratic control of the Senate, has nearly all the power. If the Non-Establishment Republicans, and Conservatives, can take back the Senate in 2014, our troops can once again be protected from unnecessary danger. Please consider this, and send it on to your mailing lists.

During this mid-term election, if there is someone new running against an incumbent, vote for the new person. We have to get all new blood in the Senate and the House. These politicians have become leaches and spend more time serving themselves than serving their country. Our vote is their term limits!

Interestingly enough, when GWB was president you heard about the military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan almost daily. With Obama in the White House, the mainstream media has been strangely quiet. More than 1,000 American soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last 27 months. This is more than the combined total of the nine years before.

The commander in chief is AWOL. Not a peep, although he ordered the White House flag flown at half-staff for the Sikhs that were killed, but not the 2-star General (Obama played golf, and there wasn’t a SINGLE WH rep). There is a deep disgust, a fury, growing in the ranks of the military against the indifferent incompetence of this president.  And this doesn’t even begin to address the fiasco of the VA scandal.  Just throwing money at the problem WILL NOT fix it.  Firing

It has taken on a dangerous tone. No one knows what to do about him, but the anger runs deep as the deaths continue with no strategic end in sight to the idiocy of this war. Obama has had 6 years to end this futile insanity, during which time he has vacationed, golfed, campaigned, and generally ignored the plight of our men and women in uniform. But, there is now a movement afoot in the armed services to launch a massive get out the vote drive against this president. This includes not just current active-duty types, but the National Guard, Reserves, the retired, and all other prior service members. This is no small special interest group, but many millions of veterans who can have an enormous impact on the outcome of the November election if they all respond.

The one million military retirees in Florida alone could mean an overwhelming victory in that state if they all show up at the polls. It might not keep another hundred or more US troops from dying, but a turn out to vote by the military against this heartbreaking lack of leadership can make a powerful statement that hastens a change.

Veterans, please forward to your lists.  Get out there and make you vote count!  I don’t care WHO you vote for, but dammit… GO VOTE this November.  It’s important, and our votes may be able to get this country back on track!!!

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Elections are coming… — 28 Comments

  1. Just to back this guy up.

    Vote. Voter apathy is at an all time high. That means your voice at the polls becomes louder.

    Of course, there are various state questions on the ballot which are highly emotionally charged to drive additional voter turnout. But you have to go and vote.

    Make your voice heard. Vote. Pick the guy who will steal from us least and is actually interested in fixing some of the problems using appropriate tools instead of tax and spending us into financial oblivion or using the Constitution as asswipe. Vote for people who will do more than just lip service to the veterans.

    Use the right that four of my ever so great grandfathers fought to give you.

  2. This is the first local Senate race I’m voting in where I’m not voting against somebody, but rather for someone.

  3. Well stated.
    I’ll be offshore on Election Day, but my ballot is already marked and is sitting in the drawer for my better half to mail in.

  4. And heaven help the idiots inside the Beltway if the military ever decides that action is required. Just sayin’.

    Very well said, sir!

  5. Joe/WSF- Thanks!

    SPE- Good!

    Charlie- Mine went in the mail today!

    CP- You’re more than welcome.

    Randy- Thank you!!!

    Rev- They are coming closer and closer with the blatant disregard for the military input…

    Fargo/Earl/Dammit- Thank you!

  6. I don’t know how important a person you wanted, but SecDef attended Maj Gen Greene’s funeral, according to Farts & Gripes (http://www.stripes.com/maj-gen-harold-greene-receives-full-burial-honors-at-arlington-1.298353).

    Furthermore, I wouldn’t want a POTUS – any POTUS – to attend a loved one’s funeral. I’d rather focus on the deceased than the 3-ring circus that follows POTUS around, and I sure as heck don’t want their funeral used for propaganda. Let me bury my own dead.

  7. My voting rubric
    1. No democrat
    2. No incumbent (same reasoning as you)
    3. No unopposed

    #1. While there are corrupt members of other parties, IMHO this party is virulently corrupt.
    #3. I don’t want someone who ran unopposed to be able to say they have a mandate for anything.
    YMMV as Sarge would say

    • I’m having trouble reconciling your rubric(whatever that is). My incumbent Rep. is a conservative, second-term, tea party local native who votes exactly as I would. He is being challenged by an ultra-liberal of Pelosi’s ilk. I will be voting for an incumbent. I don’t know if I’m equipped with a rubric, but if I am, it is to vote for the best candidate, period. 😉

    • Again, I ask who you’re looking for. SecDef is a Cabinet member (supposedly a President’s closest advisors) and the next guy down in the military chain of command from POTUS. Isn’t that better than a White House shoe clerk or a party planner with no military connection?

      • Well, since they sent an aide to Houston’s… And I really doubt SecDef is ‘close’ to BO, other than as a target…

  8. “if there is someone new running against an incumbent, vote for the new person. ”
    I will not vote for a democrat over an incumbent republican.

  9. Hey Old NFO;

    I hope they get out and vote, but unfortunately there is a large group of people in the military that support Obungler blindly and will vote for him again. I hope we can vote our way out of this but I am almost afraid that we are at the tipping point, too many people are beholding to the government for their sustenance and will vote to keep the cheese coming.

  10. Already registered absentee but unfortunately my only choice is mitch McConnell or Hillary’s pet (shes a clinton dem like theres any difference) voted against McConnell in the Primary but unfortanlay the tea party candidate was out spent not sure whether to hold my nose and vote for mitch or prey for a write in candidate and waste my vote I do not want to vote for another rino….. any and all opinions welcome

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  12. All- There are going to be cases where the incumbent DOES make sense… But I’m not tracking every race. All I ask is that you DO vote!

  13. When they come back from Africa, every service member should visit the pentagon, their elected officials, and if they can find them, their recruiter

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