If ABC News wanted to write a story about which candidate Democratic troops are supporting in their primary, so be it. But this story appears to be a bigger-picture piece about the election, and yet not a single troop talked to says he’s going to vote for McCain. Are our troops now voting exclusively Democrat? Has the Iraq war ushered in a complete transformation of the military’s voting habits? While this may be a liberal journalist’s wet dream, this does not make it what the rest of us refer to as reality. I noticed several of the comments make the same point. One in particular caught my attention. Although I have no way of validating it, I hope for McCain’s and the military’s sake it is authentic:
I’ve served as an EOD technician in Iraq and Afghanistan and would go back in a heartbeat. I’ve got friends there now and I know every one of them wants to see the job finished. I would never vote for someone who would throw away everything we fought and sacrificed for. Everyone I’ve discussed politics with feels the same. I even know one formerly hard core democrat who intends to switch over and vote McCain because of his parties attitude on the war. I don’t doubt that there are a handful of supply clerks and other REMFs who feel the way these supposed soldiers do. That said, I’m absolutely certain that the vast majority of my brothers and sisters in arms, especially the actual combat troops, would never vote for Obama or Clinton. This article is patent BS and, if (big if) they didn’t simply make this up, I’ll bet they had to search hard for these “soldiers”.
