Is there anybody in the GOP presidential candidate field who is qualified to be commander in chief?

[bluestateguy]

I just can't for the life of me imagine any one of these as of yet undeclared candidates as a credible commander in chief of our military.

[HillbillyBob]

1. The very idea that any of the participants in this side show

as president gives me the willies, hives, indigestion, you name it.

[RKP5637]

2. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

3. The Wannabees persist with moot drivel and band aids....no ideas cept for their Masters

1 control

2 dominate

3 Dictate

That is their mission....

to FOOL

is to RULE

[msongs]

4. an elected president is automatically qualified by the constitution nt

[solara]

5. Sure there are!

Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Joe Lieberman, Tom Coburn, Lindsay Graham, Mitch McConnell, Jeb Bush. And I am sure I have forgotten a few other good ones. Why, there is a veritable smorgasbord of viable and willing candidates. They all have fantastic military creds too, so it's a no brainer. :shrug: (literally)

Obama is going down..even -he- cannot withstand the onslaught of these brilliant and thoroughly modern neo-con political minds.


Then we have the dream team of Palin/Bachman but I don't know enough about their military connections to include them in my "most likely to" list.

:evilgrin: :sarcasm:

[old mark]

9. Republicans? No Brainer?....Dude!!!!....

:freak:


:rofl:

mark

[former9thward]

6. It is sort of hard to throw rocks on this issue when the last two Democratic

Presidents have had no connection to the military. We are entering an age when the draft ceased to exist and it will be rare that a politician served in the military.

[TheWraith]

8. You don't have to have served in the military to understand it.

You do, however, have to have a brain in your head and the ability to make good decisions. Historically, there's really no connection to whether having been in the military makes you qualified to run it. The only thing FDR would have known about being in the military was how to shoot a gun, but that didn't stop him from leading the US to the brink of victory in the biggest war ever fought by humankind.

[former9thward]

13. That is utterly ridiculous.

Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1913 -1920. Besides WW I, during that time period Roosevelt founded the Naval Reserves and held meetings with Churchill during WW I. After the war he was placed in charge of demobilization. And you are saying he just knew how to shoot a gun? LOL

[TheWraith]

14. Asst. Secretary of the Navy is a civilian administrator position.

It doesn't make you a member of the military.

[former9thward]

17. Duh , I get that.

But in that position for seven years you get to know a whole lot about the military and it is absurd to suggest otherwise. Any one who is in a senior administrator position meeting with world leaders knows a hell of a lot more about the military than a "member of the military". But I'm sure that will not stop you from strangling facts and logic.

[Beacool]

7. And pray tell, what precisely were Obama's qualifications to be CIC when he took office?

For that matter, what in his resume qualified him to be president?

:shrug:

[bluestateguy]

10. The year is 2011, not 2008

We're here and this is now. The past is just that. The past.

[Beacool]

18. Yep, but it still applies.

As much as I can't think of one Republican who I would wish to win the WH, it is disingenuous to ask how qualified any of them are when Obama had a wafer thin resume when he ran in 2008.

;-)

[pacalo]

11. The baggers think Sarah Palin is, you betcha! "We're puttin' a crosshairs target on ALL them

foreign countries! We're gonna fly those radio-controlled 'clone-thingys' over 'em & bomb, bomb, bomb the heck out of 'em! Oooh, havin' this red phone sure is fun -- I might get one for every room; Bristol, Track, & little Trig can help monitor them when Mom's busy with her Fixed News exclusive interviewin'."

[immoderate]

12. Age + citizenship = sure!

And getting elected.

It cuts both ways.

--imm

[ElsewheresDaughter]

15. has there ever been?

[Nye Bevan]

16. Well, Petraeus should be OK for the military side of things.

Of course he would not necessarily be strong in any other fields.

[Fly by night]

19. Basil Marceaux

If you don't know him, Google him.