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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Lisa De Pasquale :: Townhall.com Columnist
Are We Hypocrites for Not Enlisting?
by Lisa De Pasquale
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Liberals don’t care whether a person is qualified because winning the war isn’t their goal. It’s not about victory for America, it’s about making conservatives pay politically. The military is just another prop in their bag of political tricks. Conservatives are often accused of using the military and patriotic themes to appeal to voters, but at least it’s for an American victory. When the Left supports the military, they do so by carrying signs like this one – “We support the troops when they shoot their officers.”

Liberals’ incessant calls to draft every 18-year-old College Republican is tantamount to the disrespect they have for the military. They demand that every person who supports the war join the military or send their children. If they don’t, they’re hypocrites. This isn’t going to be a winning strategy for the Left. Is every person that wears an AIDS ribbon, but doesn’t go to Africa (as Laura and Jenna Bush did) to help children with HIV/AIDS a hypocrite? Are vice presidents and celebrities that travel in private jets and SUVs while lecturing the little people on the proper amount of toilet paper also hypocrites?

In Treason, Ann Coulter wrote, “Instead of relentlessly attacking the military as immature or testosterone crazed – meaning ‘braver than me’ – liberals might have the good grace to realize they live in a country where big burly men are willing to protect them from bullies.” Thanks to those extraordinary men and women that persevered through the recruitment process and continue to serve, we all enjoy freedoms that we ourselves are not willing or able to fight for.

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Lisa De Pasquale is CPAC Director at the American Conservative Union. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservatives. For more information, visit www.cpac.org. To read Lisa's blog, visit www.thelotusblog.com

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Joe...
Just because Romney and his sons have not served in the military does NOT mean that none of them are prepared to render the ultimated sacrifice!

Additionally none of them offer excuses as to not joining the military...they just chose other routes. I did not serve in the military, but you can bet your liberal boots that if the day came for me to take up arms and lay down my life for this country....me, Mitt Romney and his sons would do it in a heartbeat.

A Patriot is not only defined as someone who joins the military!!!

More on the draft
For those of you who are afraid to serve there is always Canada. Dont worry eventually some low life politician would let you skate.
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