THE Democrats don't want to talk about it. They simply cannot, as a party, bring themselves to unequivocally condemn the shameless MoveOn.org slime ad published at a special, military-bashers discount rate by The New York Times. Talk about an in-kind contribution.As vile and disgraceful as that ad was and still is a part of me is glad they printed it and glad the Democrats won't condemn it, sort of. Here's the money quote:Now, the Democrats in Washington are hoping we'll just, you know, move on. Fat chance.
MoveOn's smear of Gen. David Petraeus as a traitor (the group's ad in the Times mocked him as "General Betray Us") is gutter politics. In a time of war, it is morale-undermining character assassination of a dangerous order. Not that the blabbermouths at either institution care, but our enemies are watching us. Watching. And snickering. And cheering the rhetorical grenade that was lobbed at one of America's most honorable and dedicated leaders on the battlefield.
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Like Siamese twins, MoveOn and the Democratic Party are conjoined political entities fused at the heart and hip.Read the whole thing here:
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