McCollum ‘undeterred’ after death threat, failure of amendment to bar taxpayer funds to NASCAR

Can you imagine, FOR ONE GOD DAMN SECOND, the conflagration of outrage if it were discovered that a school or some teachers paid $100m of taxpayer money for advertising? There would be exploding bagger heads flying this way and that.

Why would NASCAR, which has enough corporate sponsors to sustain itself and to make many rich, need tax-payer money?

They don’t need taxpayer money, but the Army, being a part of the government, has to pay for their advertising just like anyone else. Why didn’t she just offer a bill to eliminate all pentagon recruitment advertising?

It’s not needed. Young republican kids enlist because they’re patiots. Young democrat kids don’t enlist unless they’re gay.

So, Dennis, if you are in the military today, you must be a Republican or gay? Or maybe both?

Since when do “Young republican kids enlist”? Most of them have their eyes set on Wall Street or other money-making arena. LIke Dick Cheney said, when asked why he avoided going to Vietnam when it was his turn, “I had other priorities”.

And how many of the potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates have ever served?

jonerik, no, I’d say one or the other.

Hey Clay – do you really think the army rangers or the marines or the navy seals are bastians of liberalism? I didn’t think so.

Over 70% of the military votes republican. About 90% of people in combat roles do. Which is why Mark Ritchie and his ilk are always trying to invalidate absentee votes from military bases.

Republican values 101:

NO to Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, and Arthur
YES to stupid rednecks that can’t even make right turn.

What’s cheaper the Army advertising(Republican values) or reinstating the draft (extreme right-wing values)? While NASCAR probably isn’t the best way the military could spend their advertising dollars in terms of value, it does reach their target audience of ‘rednecks’ who DO mostly vote Republican.

Alternately, we could follow the example of our European friends and require military service in exchange for post-secondary education (liberal democrat values). My only concern is if NASCAR is getting anything but advertising fees but if $7 mil a year is all their getting, it doesn’t sound like it.

Dennis, please cite sources to prove that “Mark Ritchie and his ilk are always trying to invalidate absentee votes from military bases.”

Been watching “Starship Troopers” over and over, eh?

Dennis is an abusive troll.

Katie, why don’t you just cover your eyes and sing “la-la-la-la!”

That way you won’t to deal with my inconvenient truths.

It’s true just took a barracks poll here in Afghanistan,47 republican votes, 13 democrat, and 12 won’t ever votes.

Dennis,

I know that military personnel are convinced to vote Republican. Like many Americans, they vote against their interests even though military pay stagnates under Republican presidents (unless you count the hazard pay that they rack up by being sent needlessly into elective wars for years at a time) and they get saddled with shoddy equipment, barracks showers that electrocute them, and other consequences of the no-bid contract.

The conservative movement got very good at getting people to vote against their interests. It’s why the United States is now a third-world country.

With Armed Forces Radio broadcasting Rush Limbaugh so prolifically, while providing only token access for opposing views, cannot help but have a decisive propaganda effect on military personnel. The success of democracy depends on an educated and well-informed electorate. Active-duty personnel who depend on AFR are not well-informed.

Funneling money to NASCAR in the name of advertising is a method of political payback. As we wind down Iraq and Afghanistan, military recruitment can be throttled back to normal levels as well.