According to Eric Alterman, it seems that the "active" military personnel who are delegates at the Republican National Convention are reservists, so they are okay to be delegates:
"Update on my Possible Actual News Alert: According to our man Bateman, whom we should have contacted in the first place, the Republican Party is not in violation of the U.S. military’s rules on the participation in party politics by active duty military, owing to the reserve status of the delegates."
We have to ask, though, if the reserves are being sent into active duty, why is there a distinction for political activity and not being sent to Iraq?
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