Why do the majority of people believe that the Republicans are stronger on defense matters?

[Dawson Leery]

:wtf:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4524846

[DavidDvorkin]

1. Maybe for the same reason people thought Bush was a cowboy

and John Wayne was a tough hero.

Americans have always been suckers for those poses, and the GOP have succeeded in posing as tough guys and in depicting Democrats as soft and weak.

[BeFree]

2. Because Peace is wimpy.

Peace doesn't allow you to puff out your chest and be a bully.

[Golden Raisin]

3. Because they dutifully

and regularly shovel more billions of our tax dollars to their buddies and overlords in the Military/Industrial Complex.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Democrats cut funding to the Vietnam War in 1974.

What happened when Democrats in Congress cut off funding for the Vietnam War?

Historians have linked that cut in finds directly to the fall of Saigon and the right successfully made the argument that Democrats were soft on Defense. Before that, Democrats were in charge of almost every war, and in early in World War II Republicans were isolationists and called WWII Roosevelt's war and were against it.

Especially since Vietnam, Republicans have created a belief that Democrats, because of their action, are soft on Defense. It has stood now since 1975 as a belief by the right and even a majority of independents. This belief also led many of the peace advocates to be a little more involved with Democrats because Republicans hitched their wagon to war and national defense.

[movonne]

5. Because the repugs are corporatist and they want war..

[JTFrog]

6. mainly because half the people i was with believed it until i explained the situation to them

[Chipper Chat]

7. Ronald Reagan

[gkhouston]

8. Because their televisions tell them that morning, noon, and night. n/t

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. Two reasons: Most Americans are stupid and the Repugs are

masters at messaging.