it's ironic that Democrats resorted so quickly to that tactic in an effort to blunt the effectiveness of General Petraeus' testimony.It's not ironic, it's par for the course. :') The claim by Dhimmicrats that they're accused of not being patriotic -- not by FReepers, but by the President, or members of the Bush administration -- because of this or that innocuous little thing they do is just a straw man argument used to try to cover the fact that they are anti-American. It's analogous to the skinheads, moslems, and dhimmicrats who hate Israel and Jews, claiming that they themselves are victims of bigotry simply because they oppose Israel's "policies" (meaning existence).
Hildabeast fears the far lefties. She knows first hand how they operate being married to one, and being incubated on socialist issues since her college days. One must be carefull when dealing with such wolves.