Andrew Sullivan thinks we're seeing the end of the Republican Daddy Party because George Bush ordered the U.S. Military to effectively give up its search for a missing U.S. solider. He could be right. How are Republicans going to say they're strong on defense and that they and only they can do the right things by the military when Bush is willing to abandon a U.S. solider? Sure the situation is a bit more complex than that, but in George Bush's "either you're with us or against us" world, maybe not?

Andrew doesn't pull any punches in his criticism of Bush and the Republican sock puppets

The U.S. military does not have a tradition of abandoning its own soldiers to foreign militias, or of taking orders from foreign governments. No commander-in-chief who actually walks the walk, rather than swaggering the swagger, would acquiesce to such a thing. [. . .] authorized abandoning him to the enemy? Who is really giving the orders to the U.S. military in Iraq? These are real questions about honor and sacrifice and a war that is now careening out of any control. They are not phony questions drummed up by a partisan media machine to appeal to emotions to maintain power.

And where, by the way, is McCain on this? Silent on Cheney's "no-brainer" on waterboarding. Silent recently on Iraq. But vocal - oh, how vocal - on Kerry. It tells you something about what has happened to him. And to America.

As for the tears Andrew is shedding for McCain, I'm not all that impressed. McCain was and is nothing more than a Republican sock puppet.
posted by Idle Crank at 11/01/2006 01:33:00 PM