This is the next big battle in the GWOT

The next big battle in the GWOT (Global War on Terrorism) is shaping up and it is going to be fought in the ballot box. The Republicans have a slate of candidates to challenge some of the firmly entrenched enemy, er congress critters and we know from the last mid term election that the Dems have theirs also. From my personal observations on how political party lines are drawn among military members it would appear that Army and Marine Corps veterans trend to Republican or conservative parties while the former members of the Navy and Air Force tend to be more liberal. My own personal theory on this is that it has to has to do with proximity to the enemy that the veteran experienced. When you have seen the enemy face to face and been on the ground and seen just what sorrow and suffering can be inflicted onto people by brutal dictators and oppressive regimes it tends to make you real conservative real quick.
Here are the veterans running for Congress on the Republican side and here is a slate of those running under the Democrat banner.
Let me state that in the upcoming election it is apparent we will wind up with a liberal in the WH, it just depends on which flavor of liberal you want. It is therefore more important then ever before to get conservatives, notice I didn't say a party, into some seats in the congress to oppose what will surely be another era of big government and nanny state thinking. Yes I do think that those on the Republican ticket tend to be more conservative, but as the last couple of years have shown us that is no longer a hard and fast rule.
Being a veteran does not grant you any sort of superiority over anybody else, but it does give you is a value system and I would hope the moral fortitude to stand up in the face of criticism and not shift your stance based on the pop culture headline of the day. Moral courage is far harder to come by in some cases then physical courage. That is why teenagers worry more about how they are perceived among their peers then they are the outcome or consequences of their actions. We don't need people with teenage mentalities serving in federal government.
So give the vets a look, they are not all misfits who only went into the service due to a lack of other options no matter what the prevailing wisdom is in newsrooms across this country.
One last tip, if a candidate proclaims himself to be a member of the IVAW, Iraq Veterans Against the War, it is probably best to pass on that person. That group has been found to be filled with so many phonies, fakes, and outright liars that the entire group should be avoided.