Navy vet DeSantis says draft-dodging Trump's
insults pale in comparison to sacrifices
made by those in the military - as ex-president
brands Florida governor an Imposter

DeSantis had a great answer, even though the title of the article is a complete lie. The article itself is okay. Daily Mail stirring the pot.

Of course, stirring the pot. DeSantis should have run as veep on the 2024Trump-DeSantis ticket, then, after 4 years experience observing and learning from Trump, slide into his 2028 presidential run (and victory). Now, instead, we're going to get nonstop Trump-DeSantis mudslinging which will be a huge turnoff for our side. Sigh, pubbies cr*pping in their own beds... again.

Why IS DeSantis running for president? Has he effectively answered that Q? Military service is almost meaningless these days. Why is he pushing his military service? Hardships?

Re#3 Why not? He has military experience, why wouldnt he draw attention to that? Would you expect Trump to keep his mouth shut about the buildings he built? DeSantis doesn't have to justify running for president. Why should he wait. He's at the top of his game TODAY. A 2024 Trump presidency could do poison the well, that no Republican can win in 2028. Stop with the Trump DeSantis ticket schtick. Trump has been bashing DeSantis non-stop for the past 7 months.

Just to stir things up but as a Navy veteran myself - who cares about military service. It's a government job in uniform - big whoop. John McCain has lots of military service - how did that turn out for the country?

DeSAntis primary attraction is that he is the never Trumper. He is the establishment choice to stop the populist tide. You know it, his supporters know it, Trump supporters know it. To that end, the never Trumpers attack Trump, but that’s ok. Trump attacks DeSAntis and he’s unpresidential. Let’s be clear: trumps supporters know what we are up against and who is against us and why. DeSAntis and his are against us. Rove.Ryan. Bushes. Romney. McConnell. Their contempt for us is far more offensive than anything Trump says.

Military career? He went to college became a "lawyer" then joined and became an Officer. He was JAG. So was Ms Lindsey. Look what a weasel he is.

I'd be more impressed with DeSantis' military service if he had been an aviator, submariner, commander of a carrier task force or as a 'grunt' or combat leader. JAGs are important, for sure but that's just a lawyer in uniform. That said I'm for either DeSantis or Trump. Don't care about the sausage making process - so long as we get either one (or both) in

I for one don’t want another Yale Skull and Bones, CIA asset as President. And that is exactly who I think he is.

#7 Not only JAG but served at Guantanamo Bay! Just wait until he's the GOP candidate of choice and what he was involved with there comes out. Does "waterboarding" ring a bell?

I’m going to say it. I am very tired of the social requirement of saying thank you for your service to current members of the military. There has not been a draft since 1973 and the US military has not been used for a legitimate defense of liberty since 1947. The United States military is voluntary and is not a résumé builder. It is also not meant for anyone to virtue signal their service, especially given the last 76 years of track record.

Remember back fifty years ago or so when Trump was said to be a “draft dodger” during the Vietnam era he was a New York liberal Democrat, while now Trump is by any current standard a Florida conservative Republican. One thing is probably for sure, Biden will be blacked out as far as any complaining about DiSantis’s military service except when he is before politically low information to stupid Democrat audiences, because both Biden’s son “Bo” who Biden falsely has claimed a number of times misleadingly that “Bo” was lost in Iraq when that was not so, as unfortunately “Bo” died many years later of brain cancer in the USA. Beyond that “Bo” and DiSantis, without denigrating their military service, both held the same non-combat positions in the military, they were Army and Navy lawyers, who were stationed at very safe high level military headquarters while in the USA or overseas.

How does one dodge the draft? I had to write an explanation to the FBI as to why I didn't register on my 18th birthday but waited six months to do so. If by dodging the draft Desantis means Trump wasn't drafted, there were millions of people who registered for the draft and weren't called to duty. That doesn't mean they're all draft dodgers.

Hey all of you folks who would dis Trump because he did not serve in the Vietnam War. There were millions of guys just like him who wanted nothing to do with being cannon fodder for the military industrial complex. Those boys were sometimes sent into battle zones with little to no ammunition. They were fighting a guerrilla war on the enemy’s territory and for what? Plus, the casualties were massive because the powers that be would not allow us to fight to win. It’s the same mindset today. We are willing to send our men and women into street fighting when we could have ended the war quickly with less death and destruction, but the big shots pushing us into war after war wanted the money from the war machine that made them rich. War is a huge money maker for the movers and shakers in the military industrial complex. It makes men rich but it does that on the backs of dead and wounded Americans. I admire anyone who serves, but I will not blame those who resisted being drafted in the 60’s. It was an ugly and needless war and we all knew it but the government could not push our men into the thick of it soon enough. It was a needless war and totally mismanaged just like the rest of the wars that have been fought since. How is it more compassionate to fight wars for decades than going in with the appropriate force which we have and end it quickly. War is a big business and President Eisenhower wisely advised us to be wary of the military industrial complex because it could be used as a force for evil. Pardon my war rant. I came of age in the 60’s and what happened to many of my generation during that time still has the power to get my Ferggie up. Evil men used war and human suffering to their advantage for their own selfish purposes. I honor anyone who serves because they offer themselves to serve. However, far too often they are put at risk by men who are soulless cowards sending men and women to die so that they may prosper.

I turned 18 in May 1974 and dutifully signed up with the Selective Service (even though the draft ended the year before.) If I read the table correctly my draft number would've been 051 - low enough that I would've been called up. By 1976 I was in the middle of pursuing a petroleum engineering degree at my alma mater. I DID join AFROTC but by 1975-76 many college ROTC detachments nationwide were shut down due to the end of the Vietnam War - including our detachment at my undergraduate school. I ultimately decided to plow ahead with my studies. I don't think of myself as a draft dodger.

If Trump is certain to win the GOP nomination, then sweep Biden in the general, why do his fans now denigrate military service and insist that DeSantis is an Establishment creature, while making believe that a New York real estate billionaire is anything but the epitome of "Establishment?"

I can write what I want to write, and poster #4 has that same right. Accuse me by my words, not what you think I mean. Didn't bash a soul in my comment. Anyone with military experience can gauge what I meant by concerning the military. Especially if you were enlisted. Thank you.

I never thought I’d see so many conservatives knocking military service here. I’ll just say I’m proud of my dad, brothers, and husband for serving. We all make choices. DeSantis made the choice to be in the Navy. Trump made the choice to build things and hire people. There’s nothing wrong with either of those choices.