Kos is one man who has experience with VAs. Tancredo claims to work with several veterans groups that use VAs.
And he lies a lot. If he is in contact with any kind of veterans' group, it must be one of the "astroturf" types made up by some right-wing scam artist to generatre false information. Think of the lobbyist groups that sent out letters purporting to be from AARP and various charities which were NOT the opinions of the groups identified on the letterhead.
Any "veterans'" group that supports vouchers is probably as real as the American Black Chamber of Commerce, the work of one wingnut and his wife.
So, unless Kos' MOS was "mind melding with every veteran", I don't see how he has experience to rate the entire VA system.
Those of us who have served tend to be a lot more aware of the system, and of the opinions of fellow veterans than have wussy boys like Tancredo. We get the mass mailings, we encounter other veterans in the hospital wiating rooms and share anecdotes and complaints. Most of the complaints I have heard in the hours and hours that I have spent there have been about how few staffers there are at any facility since the Shrub started screwing up the budget.
NO LEGITIMATE veterans' group that I know of has EVER recommended vouchers. If that lying sack of crap from Colorado wants to be believed, he had better post a list somewhere of what veterans' groups have fed him that crap, because I cannot believe that they exist. I, as a disabled veteran would by now have recieved something in the mail, read about it in the Army Times, or heard a nieghbor talking about it. (Did I mention that I live in a community that is about 30-40% military connected?)
The only veteran I have ever heard suggest such an idea was a Republican with PTSD and serious anger control issues and HORRIBLE judgement concerning other people's comptency to hold public office.
As far as any veteran can see, Tancredo pulled it out of his undies.
He demonstrated no actual knowledge of what the surveys found. Hew was right simply because he assumed everyone in question shared his opinion and experience.
He was right because, in his own life, he has used the system, knows people who have used the system and, in his professional life, reads and hears a lot of communications with other men and women who have used the system and knows what opinions they are expressing publicly.
Actually, it is on both men. They both made affirmative statements as if they were facts.
And Tancredo is known to have mental issues. Tancredo is known to have a political aggenda that is sometimes in conflict with the stated positions of nearly all legitimate veterans' group in the country. He started on shaky ground. The whackadoodle made a statement that is in conflkict with the accepted wisdom and statisctical surveys. He opened his mouth and made himself look like a drooling idiot and now he needs to back it up or shut up.
He is lying and we all know it.
So, only people you qualify as real men can make statements based on hard data?
Nobody has any reerason to believe that the whacko from Colorado has any hard data to support his garbage. The way he acted toward Kos is false bravado, a failing as a man.
So, once again, a person who disagrees with you has a defect.
Those who try to create a false reality to suit their poitical ends, at the expoense of people to whom he owes something has a moral defect. He has no military experience because of a supposed mental defect. So in Tancredo's case, his disagreement with me and with Kos is the result of a defect or several.
Same goes for the fat pill-popping deaf eunuch.
