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DEMOCRATIC AND LIBERAL MILITARY MEN ARE TRAITORS?
Kevin Nicholson, Don't
Apologize, Drop Out of the Race
By: Mark E. Anderson
Daily Kos
13 May 2018
Apologize, Drop Out of the Race
By: Mark E. Anderson
Daily Kos
13 May 2018
On August 1, 1985, I raised my right hand and swore this oath as I enlisted in the U.S. Army,
“I, _____, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
That was a damn long time ago, but, that oath meant a lot to me then, and means a lot to me today. Which is why it enrages me to see Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Kevin Nicholson state,
"Because I'll tell you, the Democrat Party has wholesale rejected the Constitution and the values that it was founded upon. So I'll tell you what: Those veterans that are out there in the Democrat party, I question their, their cognitive thought process. Because the bottom line is, they're signing up to defend the Constitution that their party is continually dragging through the mud,"
He questions my cognitive thought process, and every other veteran on the left? Really? He cannot even say “Democratic Party” correctly, and he questions the thought processes of this brothers and sisters in arms? Many veterans on the left have demanded that Nicholson apologize for his comments. Nicholson, predictably, has dug in and said he will not apologize.
"Likewise, I will not apologize when I haven't done anything wrong, under any circumstances," he said. "Everyone asking for apologies all the time is such a trope. It's something that's done by political actors to cover their tracks when they've screwed up. I don't take it seriously. Neither do voters. It's part of the attitude and the approach of the political class that nobody can stand."
I will give him that, that a lot of the apologies that come from politicians are rehearsed, fake and no one buys them. I will not ask him for one.
I will not claim to speak for all veterans, because I do not, I only speak for myself. I was a lowly enlisted man; I joined as a private, and left the Army as a corporal, the most junior of junior (non-commissioned officers) NCOs. When I signed up I did not sign up to serve only American citizens who agreed with me politically, I signed up to serve all Americans. I was not an officer like Nicholson, I did not go into battle. I did serve on the InterGerman border, and then with the 101st Airborne Division. I am far from being a hero—I was just a kid doing what I thought was required of me at the time.
That being said, I still believe my oath of enlistment holds some meaning in defending the Constitution of the United States of America—which is why I am here and is why I write. I also believe that the job of an elected official is to serve all of his/her constituents. Not just those that they agree with.
As Nicholson has clearly stated that he does not think anyone on the left is capable of defending the Constitution of the United States of America, then I say he is not qualified to be a U.S. senator and should drop out of the race. Nowhere in the Constitution, or in the oath of enlistment does it say anything about political parties, and as far as “signing up to defend the Constitution that their party is continually dragging through the mud," well, I have a slightly different opinion about which party is dragging the Constitution through the mud, as a matter of fact. Nicholson should read it sometime, it is fairly enlightening.
I do not care that he served in the Marine Corps, I do not care that he was once a Democrat. To use a derogative military term, he is a shitbird, nothing more, nothing less. I do not want an apology—I want him to crawl back under his rock. Because he is clearly not part of the solution in this country—he is part of the problem by sowing even more division than we already have.
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