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Yes, Ron Paul served as a flight surgeon for military. He does have a chance just like all the other candidates. Just because corporate media isn't being paid enough to support Ron Paul doesn't mean he is a "loser" as someone has said. He's an upstanding congressman whose been elected over 10 times for the Republican party. People are listening now, empty rhetoric isn't working. Please listen and think about what the candidates say and do rather than relying on the media to regurgitate their spin of the facts down your throats. I beg you, as a voter, do your homework.

Congratulations Senator McCain ... You got this military families vote !
Don’t you RP people have anything better to do than sabotage other candidates? Your arrogance hurts your cause, and your Candidate ! But your to stubborn to realize it. As far as military votes for RP ... ha-ha, not buying it!

Terroism has been around for over 2000 years. They were called zelots, and would walk up to a victim, and stab them knowing full well that they were goingto die for their actions. It is not a matter that Democrates or Republicans were in office, nor is it a matter of what actions they took or did not take.

However, a terrorist act, I am sorry, is not an act of war, it is a crimminal act. This administration, has errored, not by responding to 9-11 but for giving it legitamate status of something other than a crimminal act.

To Mark, yes you do need a declaration of War as Congress provided after the attack on Pearl Harbor, that takes your nation to a war time footing and annouces an enemy.

A war on terror, is like saying a war on crime, a war on drugs, it sounds good and sells newspapers but acheives little else. We had a war in Iraq, we acheived the limited objectives this administration set and then after winning the war became bogged down in a internal mess with no clear cut military objective to end the situation.

In Afganistan, we accomplished part of what we set out to do and then forgot about it, sending military forces needed there top presue a war in Iraq.

Johm McCain is a military pilot that was shot down. His expertise is in the treatment of prisoners, the rights and wrongs. The generals and admirals would have better served the nation had they stood together as a TX ANG pilot that did not see fit to fullfill his obligations took the nation to war.

As a vet with 2 years in Vietnam I tell you it a given that we are in a battle against terrorism. The secret is how you fight the battle. An intelligent general will first study the enemy, determine a strategy and muster support. We seem to just blunder around shooting and bombing totally devoid of the thought process using a mercenary army with borrowed money.

Dean in Idaho, Mark in Birmingham, You two have much to learn about Foreign Affairs. Dean, Paul was in the Air Force as a flight surgeon. Mark, do some research on American involvement overseas starting with Iran in 1953 and you will realize that the reason for most attacks against us was because of our government messing around in other countries. The ignorance of you two is helping no one. I served in the Air Force from 2000-2004 and was deployed to the middle east, and I am telling you that McCain is a Neo-Con fool. Wake up!

"Ron Paul will not win the Republican ... Besides, was he ever in the military?" – Posted By Dean, Idaho Falls, ID

For your information, Dr. Paul was a U.S. Air Force flight surgeon and an OB-GYN doctor, who delivered more than 4,000 babies. A flight surgeon usually doesn't end up as a POW.

Both Senator McCain and Congressman Paul are honorable men and dedicated public servants for life. Either one will make a fine president.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com

"Congressman Paul graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s."

To those of you with your rose colored glasses on you need to take them off so you can see the Beruit Marine Barrracks Bombing in 83, Hijackings and kidnappings in the 70's and 80's, USS Cole, Anbar Towers in Saudi Arabia, Embassy Bombings in Africa, London Subway Bombings, Madrid Train Bombings, the recent UN Bombings in Africa, and yes the World Trade Center/Pentagon bombings are all madeup to scare people. If you know that they will not happen to the USA or our allies again, I know of swamp land in Florida to sell you. The Armed Forces can support McCain, because he has been there unlike you armchair wannabes. As a Naval Acadamy Grad., he is taught an honesty and integrity that has been removed by the elitest Ivey League schools these other slick Lawyers/Politians attended. Also the thing this Desert Storm Vet/Retired Navy voter likes about McCain is he wants to win the "WAR ON TERROR"! Maybe if previous Administrations and their Democrat controlled Congress had the will to fight terrorist years ago 9/11 might not have happened.

I served overseas in Iraq as US Marine (military police) and I can tell you with certainty that RON PAUL is getting my vote! He is the only one that understands that you can force your will down people's mouths. Ask Michael Scheuer (head of the former CIA's Bind Laden unit who he supports!!

McCain is the only current republican I see who hasn't driven a major wedge between the GOP and the Military which has tradionally been pro Republican until Bush. I think it's his stong stance FOR the Geneva Convention and AGAINST torture and waterboarding that seperate him from other Republicans.

If we had a McCain/Keyes 00 ticket in 2000 we wouldn't have two lost wars on our hands we'd have one successful one (Afgahnistan), long since finished with our troops home.

WOW, after reading all of these comments here, I see that the Ron Paul sympathizers are lacking grammar, punctuation and spelling skills.

Ron Paul will not win the Republican nomination so can we please stop talking about him? He is a loser and doesn't have a serious chance at winning. Besides, was he ever in the military? Did he ever spend five years at the Hanoi Hilton and get tortured? No. John McCain did and he deserves the military endorsement. Ron Paul sucks.

I guess it's easy to win the backing of the past as you can relate to each others arthiritus.

Curious to see that no one CURRENT has backed him.

Those admirals and generals should be ashamed of themselves. They have the right to choice, but should ensure they are backing the current military first.

It'll be interesting to see if this is rigged for McCain.

Kim from Dallas TX,
So, anyone gaining all the military support is not someone you would want to see in office?
You don't want a President who has the support of the very military that fights for your freedom? And stands behind and fights for the rights of the Soldiers who fight for the freedom you have?
You have my sympathy, I guess you call yourself an American also, right?

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." – Theodore Roosevelt.

http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/quotes.htm

Senator McCain is the most qualified commander-in-chief to be.

http://www.johnmccain.com

With 70 percent of the American people against the War in Iraq, does the GOP really think they can win in 2008 with another pro-war candidate? McCain's military endorsements mean squat. Who is getting the majority of the campaign donations from those who classify themselves as military (active-duty and retired)?
I'll give you a hint...first name is Ron, last name is Paul.
And watch tomorrow – we're going to smash another campaign fundraising record on December 16th.

Ron Paul get most votes from active duty military. Both enlisted and officers. The guys who are dying and risking their lives want Ron Paul. Only the retired Generals who have tons of money and live in their big homes far from gun fire like McCain.

This country is at war with itself which is destroying our economy while certain interest groups capitalize. What's going on in our government and the world is far more reached than most citizens realize. Listen well to what this government is not saying, not to what they say. If we as Americans don't make a "change" we will allow government to continue to give us the illusion, while robbing us, that they are working in the best interest of American citizens. The GWB/Karl Rove "underminded" Americans while claiming Karl Rove was the "mastermind". Smith, with respect, we've already heard it.

Well heck Admiral, where were all of you Admirals and Generals when bush decided to only use one third of the forces recommended by the army Chief of Staff when the war started? Then he was "encouraged" to retire. Where was your moral courage to tell bush "no" and fall on your sword if he did not listen? If enough of you Admirals and Genrerals had resigned in protest, maybe this thing could have been avoided entirly, or at least done correctly. 200 years of experience of "dont rock the boat" is what that is.

The average GI and his family are putting their money where there mouth is, behind Ron Paul.

Who cares about a couple pencil pushing political admirals, just as out of touch with the boots on the ground as the folks in Washington are with the average American.

congats Mr McCain,, keep up the good work

I am a proud member of the Military for 18 years currently serving in the Middle East and my vote is going to Ron Paul. The same liberties and freedom we fight for are slowly but surely being taken away by an inefficient, over-reaching and way too big government, and have been for some time now. Washington needs a reminder that the government is supposed to be "for the people and by the people". Obviously this is lost on many politicians. Wake up America!!!! It is time for real change.

It really saddens me to see that the first four comments posted here, are so off the mark, even to the point that they lower the standards of Remarkability.

Here is the Man who figuratively died for our sins. Here is the man who suffered literally the torture of thugs. Here is the Man who refused to be repatriated out of turn (on the grounds that he is the son and grandson of U.S. Navy Admirals) and wound up instead of being help a prisoner of war for just over a year, he wound up staying over FIVE and A HALF YEARS to endure the several beatings per week. Here is the Man who still suffers physically not because he did something wrong for our country, BUT BECAUSE HE NEARLY GAVE HIS LIFE AND ENDURED THE TORTURE OF THEM COMMIES for over five years.

But this is the respect some people have for a wartime HERO? To just go ahead and treat this blog like it's auditions at the comedy club?

I don't get it? Whether you do or don't vote for him, please, at least show some respect for someone who did for our country what you can't find the courage to do, he showed respect. He gave it all he could, he earned it.

McCain meets McAbel

http://www.golden-lamp.com

Dear Friends:

This candidate experienced and a religious man is more than visible.

He is a military experienced representative, a man who loves his nation willing to stand up for and die for you and me, now coming forth and saying I want to be the President of the USA for thee.

Vote all men and woman who are citizens of all faiths.

Amen.

With all do respect to the gentleman McCain. I can not and will not vote for a man with a saggy face.

RETIRED, that means old people.

It's not going happen McCain, you should be retired yourself!

This is a joke I wander of those 100 how many have ever actually seen combat or do they even have any understanding of this crazy unnecessarty war in Iraq. It would seem to me that Ron Paul has got the active military personels(you know the peolpe who are actually over there not those who sit around and compare Iraq to Germany which is a complete joke and no comparsion) endorsement since he has more donations from active military than anyone else.

hey sen. john mCcain if we get rid of the republican administration we get rid of terror god help us if we get another bush alike.

It's a phony "war on terror". We don't need generals, nor A-Bonbs. What we needed was someone bright and intellectually curious as president who would take threat assessments seriously and have his FBI and CIA talk to each other. Then we need good intelligence services and police people to find the criminals who planned it in the Pakastani tribal areas and try them as mass murderers.

Forget this assinine idea of declaring a new christian crusade or trying to alienate the entire muslim world just because a few right wing Islamic nuts engage in terrorism.

Their tactic succeeded beyond their wildest imaginations as republicans rushed us head-long into war to knock off Saddam Hussein, Al-Quada's mortal enemy, and radicalized Iraq, creating a new terrorist breeding ground andschool for tactics where none existed before.

And, as a byproduct, they isolated America from it's allies and bankrupted us so that we are financially dependant on the Chinese and Saudi's.

The "war on terror" was just part of Karl Rove's strategy for getting Bush elected (without daddy's Supreme Court help) in 2004 and was otherwise a FRAUD. Bush let bin Laden go at Tora Bora, refused to commit American troops there, and instead was drawing down the real effort in Afghanistan to start his pet project in Iraq.

We were played. And Republicans continue to play us with this phony "War on Terra" nonsense.

Ron Paul's has more donations from active military service men and woman than any other candidate. So who "wins military endorsments"?

John McCain can kick Ron Paul's ass any day!

I give you a pass for winning that one!

McCain is stuck in past wars that weren't declared. The backdoor wars never end.

the military should endorse Ron Paul since so many troops favor him over McCain

Anyone gaining all of the military support is someone I would not want to see in office. I am plain tired of the warmongering going on with the present administration.

Mike Morgan...are you serious? Yes it is true that we didn't have a technical "declaration of war" from the congress but did we need one? When we got attacked on September 11th we went to war, just like when we got attacked at Pearl Harbor we went to war. Wake up and face reality. We are in three wars, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the war on terror. So while you deny that we are at war, our military is fighting in three of them. Go McCain!

@Sarah from San Diego,

Simple, CNN are what honorable citizens such as you, I, and other free thinking Americans call "hacks".

Ron Paul? We're talking about credible candidates now, not more Ross Perots..........

Blayze Kohime,

I am sure the retired admirals and generals are all in it for the money. It makes sense that people who spent years serving their country and RISKED THEIR LIVES for idiots like you were in it for the quick buck. That's completely practical.

WOW.

These are the same retired, "star" officers who are CEOs, COOs, CFOs and board members of every government contractor on the globe.

They would naturally say that the U.S. is at "war" and McCain is their man. They need the U.S. to be the world's policeman to keep their high paying jobs and continue to rip the taxpayers off with their phony bills for services rendered.

And again, McCain and all of the other politicians think the American citizens are a bunch of brainless, stupid, idiots who cannot see through their "smoke and mirror" actions.

Blayze I suggest you crawl back to whatever third world country you came from. Very few of the men and women in the U.S. Military actually want to stay in this prolonged conflict. It's hard on them, hard on families, and possibly deadly. However it's a job that needs to be done, and they sure as hell are proud to stand up and do it. They also realize the Senator McCain is the only candidate of either party who grasps the concept of pain and sacrifice for our national goals.

Sadly, McCain was a P.O.W. for 5 1/2yrs; Gave Up Flag and Colors in Lieu of His Skin; Now wants to be President, and give Up What? Those that endorse this ex P.O.W. leave much to be disired in the Military! Yes I'm a Vet!

How can you have an article about winning veterans' support and not mention Ron Paul, who has the most support from military members and veterans – out of ALL the candidates? Sheesh!

oh please ron paul recieves more money from the milatary thasn Mccain why not talk about that?!?!!?

Of course people who make their income or retirement from the military's budget are going to support a militaristic warmonger for President. They must be filled with joy that we still have an enemy to frighten the American population into submission with; if we didn't they would loose their power and money.

We are not at war! You need a declaration of war from congress and so far we have not had one for over 60 years.