Have Republicans always been complete cowards or is this a new phenomenon?

[Winterblues]

Did their absolute cowardice begin 9-11 or has it been a factor for some time before that? I used to think they truly believed America was the "Home of the Brave" but this last Decade has shown them to be afraid of their own shadows. And to top it off they seem proud of it..:crazy:

[NMMNG]

1. They've always been complete cowards

As is typical for schoolyard bullies.

[RKP5637]

3. Exactly!!! Cowards and bullies = republicans. n/t

[indepat]

4. Cowards intent on cowering the American public so it will willingly give of liberty and freedom

for a morsel of seeming safely in that moral and physical cowardice in the face of the enemy is surely among the most loathsome and despicable of human characteristics. :P

[Ozymanithrax]

2. They can be brave when there is nothing but a friend between their shotguns...

and a duck.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Gee as far back as the Viet Nam War and it can be traced

they were all hot and bothered to get deferrments...Look at the mighty mouth Rush he got a deferment because he had a boil on his ass. And by the way it doesn't bother the fat one now he sits on it and spews crap all day.

And how about the Dick in hiding. He got five deferments because he had better things to do. And the topping on the cake is Bush who went AWOL from his flying school and had all traces of this deleted, wiped out and covered up by his minions when he was running for office. Those are the top three and if you checked on all those Republican war hawks in congress you will find a very very very small few ever went to any of the wars they raved about.

[arbusto_baboso]

6. It goes back at least to McCarthy.

The gutless fucks shit themselves over thoughts of secret communist infiltrators then.

This is an old phenomenon.

[old mark]

8. Many recent pols didn't serve at all, leaving it to others - the poor and

underemployed and unemployed people they rave about...Oh, yeah-and some Democrats.

FDR's 4 sons served in WWII - one the Marine raiders in the Pacific in WWII. All 4 survived the war.
Two of the Kennedy brothers served in WWII - one was killed flying an experimental version of a B-17 bomber in Europe, and the other was severely injured in the Pacific, later became President.
Eisenhower, of course, was the general commanding the allied forces in Europe in WWII.
Commander Awol's dad's Navy TBF torpedo bomber was shot down and he was later rescued by a submarine in the Pacific. He was then the youngest avaitor in the Navy.
LBJ served in WWII as an officer till he was released to take his seat in congress.
Reagan served-he made propaganda movies in California.
Nixon served as a WWII Navy supply officer in the Pacific...he had a reputation as a poker shark.
Truman was an artillery Captain in WWI - he retired from the reserve as a Colonel.
Gerry Ford served in the Navy in WWII on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
Jimmy Carter was an Anapolis grad and a carreer naval officer on nuclear submarines before running for office.
Clinton never served in the military.
W. fudged it.
Obama never served in the military.


mark

[Winterblues]

10. This isn't really about the few but the many..

There are probably just as many Republicans that have served in the Military as Democrats, however that is now what I was talking about. I am talking about the general Republican population. They have been frightened to death to the point they are willing to accept torture and loss of basic Constitutional Rights to be "safe". They are truly afraid of a few raggedy people that live mostly in caves on the other side of the world. People that have absolutely no means with which to really harm anyone here except by pure fluke.. They are willing to give up everything that Americans have stood for since our inception because they are afraid...There will always be the few, that are brave, but they are getting fewer and fewer from the Republican side of things IMO.

[old mark]

11. I do really agree with you - I find the RECENT politicians have largely

lost any feeling of responsibility to our country, and I do agree they are cowards but I also think our wars were begun out of some motive other than fear - some warped idea of religion/prophecy and of revenge on Saddam Hussein. I believe the reason was as shallow as that, but I certainly do agree with you that the republicans are fearful of anything that is strange to them. ( which is an awful lot, if you think about it!)

They are terrible people, even when compared to the republicans of 30 years ago.

mark,

[gratuitous]

7. Look at the allies and adversaries of Republicans

Their allies are the rich and powerful, the folks who have taken advantage of the system, and who have won, usually big. Their adversaries are the poor and the powerless, people the system uses and abuses to the advantage of the winners. And since they're so used to thinking in binary, zero-sum terms, any perceived victory by the poor or the powerless must mean that one of their powerful friends must have lost.

One example of this mindset reaching a point of absurdity is the same sex marriage issue. The adversary for Republicans is the powerless gay folks, who have gotten more powerful in the last 20 years or so. In the Republican mindset, this means that some of their best pals must have lost some power. Additionally, if same sex couples achieve the civil right to marry, that must mean someone else's rights have been diminished. No, it doesn't make any sense, but I'm pretty sure that's how Republicans think. So they put forth this ridiculous argument about how "traditional" marriage is threatened or invalidated by same sex marriage. It simply must be so, because there is only a limited amount of marriage "right" available. So if one group gains, another must lose.

[TheKentuckian]

9. Since at least Ike.