for Failing to Echo George Bush
The Nation -- Here is how things work today at the top levels of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.
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One of the Republican party's most prominent senators, a former Secretary of the Navy and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, returns from Iraq with his assessment of the circumstance on the ground. That assessment is based on conversations with military commanders and intelligence personnel who seek him out as one of the truest friends the U.S. military has in Congress, as well as on his own experience as one of the savviest observers of international affairs in Washington.
On the same day, a magazine editor who has consistently been wrong about Iraq, has no formal or serious contact with military commanders on the ground and is broadly considered to be so biased with regard to developments in the region that his judgment cannot be trusted, pipes up with his latest theory about why the occupation is going great.
Which of the two statements does the Republican National Committee use all of its considerable communications resources to highlight: that of the party's respected senior senator or that of the discredited magazine editor?
For the ideological zombies running the RNC these days, the answer is easy: Go with the guy who always gets Iraq wrong........
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