I know. They are fun to play with for a while, watching their denials grow and their spin wind its way through a thread. Then it all gets so Clintonian and we get tired of it all.
Don't let the career naysayers get you down. Some of them are the same individuals who called Afghanistan a "dirty little police action" even as the troops were being deployed there. Some are the same ones who said there would be bloody, house to house fighting in the streets, our boys would be slaughters, and chanted "Vietnam, Vietnam" right along with the Dems.
They're the same ones who said our boys would be slaughtered by the hundreds in the bloody, house to house fighting in Baghdad adn chanted "Vietnam, Vietnam" right along with the Dems.
They have a set idea and spent a lot of intellectual capital rationalizing and justifying their concrete point of view. They will fight viciously against any chance they might have been wrong, because they simply have too much invested in their particular opinions.