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500 Former Generals, Admirals Announce Support for Romney In Powerful Full-Page Ad

Nov. 4, 2012 11:25pm Erica Ritz

Roughly 500 senior military officials are endorsing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a full-page ad set to run in the Washington Times on Monday, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

“We, the undersigned, proudly support Governor Mitt Romney as our nation’s next President and Commander-in-Chief,” the ad reads, followed by a staggering list of names and titles. Many of the signatories are former generals and admirals.

TheBlaze was sent an advanced copy of how the ad is expected to appear:

500 Generals, Admirals Endorse Mitt Romney in Full Page Washington Times Ad

The group is making it clear that they are not directly affiliated with the Romney campaign– these 500 senior military leaders created and paid for the ad themselves.

The Washington Free Beacon concludes:

The [group's] spokesman added that 389 of the individuals on the list are on the Romney Military Advisory Council, too. The Romney campaign has already announced these individuals’ endorsement.

“They have 389 on their list,” the spokesman said, while “we have almost 500.”

The list comes as a Military Times survey revealed that active duty, National Guard, and military reserve members support Romney over Obama by a two to one margin.

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ocMan13
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:18am
I wish this HUGE endorsement could have come out earlier. Our great military has always protected us from enimies abroad. Is this the first time they had to act at home to such a threat? This also might be the first time that words would win a war for our military. Please God, bless the USA.

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- turkey13
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 11:24am
  No story here! These guys are leaders and educated in getting the job done or heads will fall. Obama had more experience than 10 of these guys or do you forget he was a community organizer. Obama also was a lawyer and anyone know a lawyer can fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
eek
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:16am
God bless all of them! I thank them for their service.

My military family supports Romney! We love our country and I’m glad these brave souls do too!

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Chrison
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:08am
“The list comes as a Military Times survey revealed that active duty, National Guard, and military reserve members support Romney over Obama by a two to one margin.”

Given how the Obama Administration handled the Libya fiasco, I’m surprised the ratio is ONLY two-to-one! One of the “prime directives” in the military is to NEVER leave a comrade behind and, yet, it appears that’s EXACTLY what this Administration did in Libya! Our fellow countrymen were under siege and attack SEVEN HOURS, plenty of time to get MASSIVE reinforcements there! But, no, according to Panetta they couldn’t risk trying to save those people because they “didn’t have enough information.” BALONEY!

It’s inconceivable to me how ANY of our active duty military personnel could support a President who will leave them to die if THEY find themselves under attack!

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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:04am
Obama will win this election.
It’s over people.

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- MSrain
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:56am
  Keep telling yourself that.
  
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- txannie
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:57am
  Please quit scaring everyone…
  
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- CS_GUY
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Quit playing with yourself and grow up.
  
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Barry Soetoro
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:55am
Let me be perfectly clear, I don’t like these guys either. I knew about Benghazi, I let Americans die and I lied about it. I lie a lot.

I even lied about ordering the Osama bin Laden raid. CIA Director Panetta, signed the “execute orders” while I was golfing. He only informed me after SEAL Team 6 had entered Pakistani air space.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/osama-bin-laden-raid-not-obamas-call/

After the daring raid not only did I take credit, but I exposed and exploited SEAL Team 6 for political advantage. Leaks, interviews and decisions by me and my staff, compromised national security while risking the lives of Special Operations forces and intelligence operatives. http://www.dishonorabledisclosure.com/

Every State and Federal Government employee, including all elected public servants, swear an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Their failure to enforce Article 2, Section 1, of the Constitution or effectively challenge my eligibility based on my fraudulently altered birth certificate, selective service registration and stolen CT SS#, underscores the futility of blindly embracing propaganda by servile media offering false hope for extra change, rather than facts.

Make no mistake, having usurped the Presidency, I’ve seditiously spent blood, treasure and ignored the Constitution. Though it be treason, I’ll continue doing so for as long as I’m allowed.

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- ocMan13
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:39am
  Brutality powerful and true.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:52am
  The charge has been made that the United States has shipped weapons to Iran as ransom payment for the release of American hostages held in Lebanon, that the United States undercut its allies, and secretly violate4d American policy against trafficking with terrorists. Those charges are utterly false. – Ronald Reagan
  
  Brutally powerful and true. Don’t let relentless propagandizing from politicians and the media distract you from the truth. If you have only one good eye, you have no depth perception.
  
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Annapurna
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:48am
Hoo Rah!

We salute you all for your ongoing service to our great nation.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:46am
I will buy a Washington Times, if I can find one, just to frame that ad! Thank you for your service Generals and Admirals. America is still free because of your decisive decisions and moral character.
God Bless America.

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- Xyskalla
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:02am
  Unfortunately, the only people who will see the ad already have conservative leanings, or they wouldn’t be reading the Times, so they’re just preaching to the choir. The liberals I know (the people who really need to see it) wouldn’t touch the Times because it’s too conservative for them. They should put the ad in the Washington Post instead.
  
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- kodster5
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 11:08am
  Actually, it’s the Washington Free Beacon that is publishing this ad, NOT the Washington Times (which IS a liberal paper)… it’s the Washington Post that is the conservative paper.
  
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ripple effect
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:32am
Huzzah

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iwillnotbequiet
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:30am
Thank all 500 of you for your continued service. Your ad speaks loud and clear.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:29am
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I truly believe that Obama will reinstate the draft.

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DOra Glasberg
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:16am
Of course they support Romney, unlike sane people he wants to increase the MIC budget when everyone agrees it must be cut to make any kind of dent in the deficit.
The Pentagon HASN’T EVEN REQUESTED anther 2 trillion dollars.
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- FROTPODP
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:52am
  Because I’m sure that you’re concerned about budget deficits.
  
  Just saying….you know Obama….6 trillion dollars and all.
  
  Use your brain before you type, it may help you solve that foot in mouth syndrome.
  
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UpChuck.Liberals
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:12am
Looks like they’re giving the Clown in Chief the Middle Finger Salute, well deserved I might add.

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DOra Glasberg
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:12am
Guess those military folks missed the Romney buffoon act in Europe and Israel.

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- FROTPODP
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:54am
  Benghazi !!!
  
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- txannie
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 11:00am
  Jeez dora, I just knew you’d chime in with your mindless drivle. Please, readjust your tin-foil hat and go take your meds.
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Dora…put down the crack pipe…its time to go nighty….nite.
  
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- CS_GUY
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 4:17pm
  Dora Please,
  
  Its okay to act the fool among your friends, if you have any, but to show your ignorance in a nationwide website is rather foolish.
  
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FROG_24_7
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:07am
Amen!

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mrs.janet.murgatroid
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:07am
Warm up the nukes fellas, Mitts gonna win by a landslide. Time to give the middle east countries the Mormon handshake from the sky, nuclear bombs falling like a meteor storm.

It’s time to wipe out that idiotic box in Mecca that all the Arabs pilgrimage to, turn it into a gigantic radioactive crater. Worship the glowing crater you imbecile Arabs.

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:27am
  @MRS.JANET- “heavens to Murgatroid”! AMEN let them-worship the glowing crater-I agree, they seek and they shall find.
  
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- HappyHarriet
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 1:19am
  LOVE the way your mind works. Romney was not my first choice of nominees, and I still have a concern that he’s nothing more than “Obama light” in terms of his moderate, middle of the road stance on some issues, BUT – he’s way WAY better than that foreign Muslim cowtowing moral embarrassment Barry Soerto or whatever his name is.
  
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donkeykong
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:02am
I think they are thankful Obama wasn’t in office when
THEIR A$$ was in jeopardy, given O’s response to
those left to hang out to dry in Benghazi.

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FROG_24_7
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:59pm
Amen! Powerful stuff! Than you! GBA!

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Valezka.Vidra
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:56pm
Thanks to everyone who served this amazing country! I love all you guys!

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AZpatriotmama
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:42pm
Here are just some of the reasons why the military doesn’t support Obama…
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/u-s-general-obama-paralyzed-by-fear/

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- Diane TX
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:02am
  This is from the link you provided:
  
  He (Obama) has a dearth of understanding of our military and military matters. We hear he is uncomfortable in the presence of ranking military and seldom meets with them. He is not a person who can make decisions, and he takes an extraordinary amount of time to do so, leading to such unseemly labels for a commander in chief as “ditherer in chief.”
  
  President Obama may have set records for voting “present” on important issues. He cowers from crisis decisions. He is a politician who thinks only in terms of votes and his image. Although I was a psychology major back in the day (I’d love to hear a professional analyze risk and Obama), I won’t try to define his insides, but I believe he is risk-averse – fearful of risk – and that is the basis of the Obama-Panetta doctrine.
  
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- AZpatriotmama
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:20am
  @Diane:
  That’s right. Additionally, Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, retired from the U.S. Army and a recipient of the United States military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, also said in the article:
  
  “The answer is the Obama-Panetta Doctrine. In response to the horrible abandonment of dying Americans in Benghazi, Defense Secretary Panetta said: “(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place.”
  
  “…On its face, that is a remarkable, indeed incomprehensible, change from America’s doctrine in past wars…I can’t think of a war we fought in which we didn’t go into harm’s way without real-time information or to save lives – something the president refused to do in Benghazi.”
  
  The fact that the Obama doctrine would leave anyone behind coupled with his change in our rules of engagement that are killing our soldiers are unconscionable to our fighting military heroes!
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:42pm
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The ad is great, but why did they wait until the day before the election to run the ad?
This ad should have come out long ago. It could have won over some of the unaffiliated voters and Obama voters. This ad seems like too little, too late.

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coyote1hell
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:39pm
The Military knows that, the Stand Down Clown, Buh’rack hussien…Liar in Chief, POS, is an incompetent, out of his league, community Activist, Fool…

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BODYBAG
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:38pm
We The People salute you fine gentlemen.

I cant remember any precedent for something like this ever happening before?
Says a lot about where the MOJO is in this election.

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HKS
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:35pm
Well, I guess that would trump Bill Clinton’s assessments of the military. I think they remember Benghazi and learned what kind of chief they have. Obama let the troops down and left them to die. He has effectively degraded the trust of the commander in chief.

“Remember Benghazi”

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ImpeachRonaldReagan
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:30pm
Are the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on this list too?

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- keats5
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:36pm
  You say that like it’s a bad thing. LOL.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:41am
  IMPEACHRONALDREAGAN, Hmmm, your post sounds suspiciously like somebody else here. I’ll figure it out shortly though.
  Anyway, since 0bama would consider it reprehensible to have served with the Armed Forces like Clinton, there would be no former military unit to complain about his short lived actions in a combat zone. Remember, John Kerry was kicked out of Vietnam and sent stateside because of his silly and dangerous antics. Essentially, relieved of duty because he was a danger to both he and his men. Also, Kerry did shoot a POW in the back with a .50 cal machine gun. What a he-man, hunh? All that the Swift Boaters did was tell the public just how big of an idiot Kerry was in a combat zone.
  
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revelation2012
Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:29pm
Glory to GOD and GOD bless each and everyone of Them

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:57pm
  Amen.
  
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