[DesertRhino]

Doing something 50 years ago just means you did something good back THEN. It says nothing about who you are today.
John Glenn was a Hero in the cockpit, later in life he became a POS. John McCain was a crappy pilot, kept in because of influence, then shot down. His sick brain created ISIS, and he stayed in DC instead of spending the last year with his family...a POS move.

Mueller and Taylor are both POS.

The cult of the holy veteran somehow covers any democrat who serves ever. The rest of their lives they are somehow magically transformed into a super patriot who can never be wrong, treacherous, a liar, or a traitor.
This holy cult status does not cover any conservative.

[Rashputin]

You're absolutely right, what someone did when they are in their youth and before they were exposed to the corrosive Deep State siren song is on par with the "youthful indiscretion" phrase democrats toss around when one of theirs is exposed for having done something unacceptable or illegal when they were young.

It only applies to the democrat and republican Deep State pawns, though, never to someone who isn't on their payroll.