"Political CYA"

Michelle Malkin rocks:

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.

The MoveOn ad prompted a few tepid reprisals on the Left. Sen. Tom Harkin called it a "bad choice of words," reports the Des Moines Register, but "stopped short of advising the Democratic candidates for president, many of whom are his Senate colleagues, to take his tone in condemning the liberal group's ads." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she "wished" the George Soros-funded, ultra-liberal activist group hadn't done the ad.

Some forgiving observers are giving Pelosi credit for that statement. But she didn't so much stand up against the MoveOn attack as get backed into a corner. That isn't political courage - it's political CYA. The Democrat method of "cleaning House" is to keep sweeping the dirt under the rug.

But there's no burying this: MoveOn and the Democratic Party are inextricably linked. The "Shadow Party" has come out of the shadows. It's been a long time coming.

Indeed.  Read it all and understand the direction the Democratic Party and their ideological cohorts are taking this country. 

 

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[Lands’nGrooves]

I have a feeling tomorrow in D.C. it could get very ugly. Wish I could be there.