Teabagger to me: "Don't tell me Dems would do everything they could to defend our country!" [View All]

Had that disagreement today on my lunch hour with a random Freeper type at a fast food joint.

I won't go into too much detail about how the discussion started, suffice to say, when people say stupid shit in public, I tend to call them out on it.

So he basically said that he thought Democrats wouldn't do "everything possible" to defend America.

Alright, besides that statement simply being a roundhouse punch at the patriotism of Dems, it's also a pretty stupid sentiment. We're already spending more on "defense" than any other nation, and more than most of them combined.

So, what exactly are we "defending ourselves" from? Are we MORE secure and safe at home now then we were before 9/11? Obviously not, if we were ever all that safe. And spreading our forces thin fighting a voluntary colonial war (personally I think it's 2 colonial wars; but this nut would've just teed-off on me even more for calling Afghanistan that...) certainly leaves us more vulnerable.

Rationality just doesn't work on these creatures.

Oh, and btw, the cretin SAID he was a vet when I asked him, but he didn't freakin' even know what an MOS is!!!