>>>This is not finger pointing, just an observation -- I don't think there is any question the Republican Party has tried to present itself as the party of flag, law and order, and defense, and Democrats as weak in those areas. I would be surprised if you could find a Republican politician who would disagree with that statement. They conduct every Presidential campaign on those grounds. And who can blame them? It was worked pretty well for them.
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>>And every time someone in a Dem administration tries to cut few of the heads of the military-industrial hydra, the Reps jump to accuse them as being weak on defense. Even that legendary guy Pavlov didn't have so strong reflexes.
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>The last republican to get that right ws Eisenhower

Charlie Wilson was a democrat.