Go to school or you might end up being a moron Senator

A demographic study of characteristics of the US Military published by Tim Kane, Ph.D. (via Glen Reynolds), may surprise some: Some like Senator John Kerry and all those who think that serving in our military is a job open only to the poor and stupid.

The current findings show that the demo­graphic characteristics of volunteers have contin­ued to show signs of higher, not lower, quality....

In summary, the additional years of recruit data (2004–2005) sup­port the previous finding that U.S. military recruits are more similar than dissimilar to the American youth population. The slight dif­ferences are that wartime U.S. mil­itary enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on aver­age than their civilian peers.

Recruits have a higher percent­age of high school graduates and representation from Southern and rural areas. No evidence indicates exploitation of racial minorities (either by race or by race-weighted ZIP code areas). Finally, the distri­bution of household income of recruits is noticeably higher than that of the entire youth population.

Demographic evidence discredits the argument that a draft is necessary to enforce representation from racial and socioeconomic groups. Addition­ally, three of the four branches of the armed forces met their recruiting goals in fiscal year 2005, and Army reenlistments are the highest in the past five years....

Those who have been so quick to suggest that today’s wartime recruits represent lesser quality, lower standards, or lower class should be expected make an airtight case. Instead, they have cited selective evidence, which is balanced by a much clearer set of evidence showing improving troop quality....

Someone needs to give John Kerry the clue bat. When he reported for duty in Pasadena two days ago, to speak to the Democratic faithful in a manner reminiscent of Genghis Khan he again trashed the military he so conspicuously served.

Kerry then told the students that if they were able to navigate the education system, they could get comfortable jobs - "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq," he said to a mixture of laughter and gasps.

To be fair many in the Democratic Party do not hold our troops in such contempt, however there are too many like Kerry who do. If you talk to any member of the Looney Left or the Netroots crowd, their contempt is evident. And that's the crowd Kerry was playing to.