Questioning someone's judgement on national security is not the same as questioning their patriotism. John Hawkins explains the problem.
There's a strange little hiccup in the thinking of the left when it comes to Democrats who've served in the military. Their theory, while seldom explicitly spelled out, goes like so....A Democrat who has served in the military is automatically presumed to be competent when it comes to matters of national defense no matter what their positions on national defense ACTUALLY ARE. If a Republican actually questions that competence, then that's an attack on the patriotism of the candidate whose views are being questioned. So for example, if a Democratic veteran who won medals in Vietnam suggested that we replace the entire air force with solar-powered toy planes that fired foamy, Nerf rockets covered with peace symbols and flowers, any Republican who complained would be making a dastardly attack on their patriotism.
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