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The military background shuts up a lot. As it should.
I'm sure John Kerry remembers the value of military service.
Yeah, and I don’t know that Drumpf fans care all that much about military service. Well, at least they don’t care what Drumpf says.
He was running against someone who also had vaguely credible military service, so there was room to discredit without blowback
It's harder to nitpick a military record when running a draft dodger as your candidate. Given that the GOP is "supposed" to be law and order, it should provide some challenge for them to be running a draft dodging felon against a prosecutor and ex-military ticket.
His opponent's service was literally draft dodging. For the war Kerry was honored and injured in. We're not talking about someone with a better service record dismissing some lesser record as insubstantial.
That people were making fun of an actual combat injury, regardless of whether his opponent did some air drills back at home, proves that military service isn't some sacred trait. And John Kerry didn't just serve, he was an actual war hero who saved people's lives and took a bullet in the process. Nothing either Kelly or Vance has done remotely compares to that and he was eviscerated for the very thing that's supposed to be such a gotcha for the Republicans.
How's that going to help anything? Right now, we're looking for solutions to improve our society through progressive means. Fighting wars is not the answer regardless if formerly served or actively served.
It's about perception. I'm not saying to go fight wars. But military leaders have the respect of those that could lean right. It's always about the middle. The left and the right are set. It's the centrists that make a vote happen.