Funny thing about the "liberal conscience"-- telling gun store owners to sell arms to criminal gangs who then use the guns to murder federal agents and innocent Mexican citizens.
I guess it's like Robert McNamara-- who in his own memoir stated that he sent men off to die in a war in Vietnam that he believed was unwinnable all in the interest of keeping the Great Society on track. What's 58,000 U.S. combat deaths to Liberals?
Robert McNamara sent men off to die but made sure his son never went to Vietnam.
Part of the Kennedy myth is that JFK was going to pull out of Vietnam once he was re-elected, but never told LBJ—so the later escalation was all LBJ’s fault. But that means that Kennedy was willing to let men die in Vietnam for his own political gain, lest “losing Vietnam” threaten his re-election.