I just hope Rush is right and the Republicans take the golves off and start calling these Libs for what they are, un-Patriotic. We need to do what we did to Max Cleland when he voted against (I beleive) the Iraq War funding. Call all those out on the carpet who voted against the renewal or the Patriot Act, who was opposed to wire-tapping, who support the NY Times in their reporting of the SWIFT Program.
Republicans need to put this front and center in campaign ads. Show the American people exactly who they are voting to keep in Congress.
You want to hammer the Dems on the anti-war front? That's easy to do. You simply trot out the biggest loudmouths and expose their war records. I'll gibe you three to begin with (easy ones):
- John Kerry received four draft deferments, bowed to the inevetible and then volunteered for duty that would keep him away from Vietnam for another year or so while he trained. Once he got there, he spent four months having hmslef trailed by a movie camera and collecting enough (or inventing them)self-inflicted wounds to be sent home.
-Al Gore wasn't even a front line soldier, having been a war correspondant, and he got that assignment after his daddy the Senator pulled strings. Dig out whatever it was that Gore wrote for Stars and Stripes and I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut it was mostly about field hygiene and how to avoid the clap while in Saigon.
- Max Cleland (who you've mentioned) was another REMF who blew off his own limbs with his own grenade while repairing telephone lines. Yep, just the kind of military expert I want to hear from.
That's just to begin with.
You then stress the point that this is the Vietnam Generation, and that the whole of their military experience was gained in a LOSING cause. If I wanted to win a war, the last people I would go to are those who lost one. Usually, there is more to be learned from failure than success, but this group's experience didn't result in a "we'll get them next time" mentality, but rather a "never again" one. All they know is demoralizing defeat, so all they can offer is demoralizing defeatist talk and ideas.
P.S. This goes for McCain,too. The next-to-last person I want war advice from is someone who spent six years in a POW camp.