A week before the decision you had been calling him a stand-up marine and a real American patriot. My are you fickle, Wilkie.
It’s not fickle—you’re not really thinking this through.
When a person has a record portraying them as a patriot, you call them a patriot.
But a person’s history never guarantees their future. This is the point missed by so many. (Just like with John McCain, for example.)