Republican thinks Military not motivated or responsible enough to vote!!

From the sound of this right wing Newmax story, you’d think that without “government assistance,” soldiers are not capable of casting a vote because they’re too…what? Dumb, irresponsible? Lazy?

Requests from military voters for absentee ballots have dropped significantly since 2008 — and by as much as 70 percent in Virginia and Ohio — leading a GOP senator, Jon Cornyn, to conclude that they are yet another example of how the U.S. Defense Department under President Barack Obama has failed the nation’s military. Cornyn, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the numbers marked a "serious failure" by the Pentagon. "This is an unacceptable failure by Pentagon leaders to comply with the law.

So conservative military types are not at fault for requesting fewer absentee ballots? It’s the party of “blame someone else.” By the way:

Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde said that a similar number absentee ballots had been downloaded from the central military website the last time an incumbent president sought re-election back in 2004. "We are in complete compliance with the law," Hull-Ryde told Fox in a statement.