Comments: Democratic Men???

Problem with the draft charge is this. Who is likely to reinstitute the draft? Kerry wants to add 40,000 people and has the support of only 25% of those already in uniform. Seems to me he would have a tough time keeping people in much less increasing the number in the service without a draft.

Posted by goodspkr at October 18, 2004 10:04 AM

Read my post. One way to increase membership in the armed forces is to understand economics -- pay more for a dangerous line of work and more people will be willing to do that job. Despite beheadings we don't seem to have a problem finding contractors for Iraq -- probably because they can make up to $20K a month. It seems to me that Bush will not do this, since they've tried to cut so many benefits of soldiers since he's been in office.

As for the 25% number can you back this up. I only have anecdotal evidence to offer about national guardsmen and from what I'm told Bush's support among this group is closer to 0 than 75%.

And finally, how can you trust anything Bush says regarding foreign policy/Iraq? He's shown to be incapable of really planning and incurious as well. You may have a nagging feeling that you don't trust Kerry -- but Bush has a record of misleading Americans.

Posted by chris at October 18, 2004 10:50 AM

Your anecdotal evidence of National Guard preference is not supported by recent polls. Both polls, summarized below, show strong military support for Bush. Both polls included National Guard in their survey.

If you only talk to people like you then you shouldn't be surprised that their views reinforce your own.

Poll 1 ------------

In the survey of more than 4,000 full-time and part-time troops, 73% said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today; 18% said they would vote for Kerry.

Poll 2 ------------

Military personnel and their families overwhelmingly favor President Bush over Sen. John Kerry, a new poll says.

More than two-thirds of service people surveyed by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Policy Center said they would trust Bush, who served in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, as their commander-in-chief more than Kerry.

The poll surveyed 655 active duty, National Guard and Reserve personnel and their families from Sept. 22 through Oct. 5 and had a sampling error of 4 percentage points.

Posted by davenfl at October 21, 2004 08:07 AM

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