There is little doubt that the Democrat spin machine is struggling to come up with a way to legitimize their presidential and other candidates in the eyes of the traditionally conservative voting bloc of veterans and active-duty military personnel.
These are the same people you may recall that worked feverishly in the courts to prevent active-duty military personnel serving overseas from having their votes counted in Florida during 2000.
Taking Memorial Day, a traditional time of remembrance of the sacrifice of our fallen serviceman and women, the New York Times displayed their usual agility for avoiding appropriateness and chose today to run a editorial slamming (and that's being generous) President Bush on the G.I. funding bill.
Both Democrat presidential candidates have seized on this as a way to ingratiate themselves with military personnel, hoping that it will have the same result as other government giveaway programs- creating a dependent class beholding to government largess.
Unfortunately for them, the vast majority of active and retired military personnel have been taught that anathema and nemesis to liberal thinking; self-reliance.
While they should expect and deserve the very best from our country, they are clearly intelligent enough to see through a transparent attempt to deflect attention from the left's decades old antipathy to the military and attempts to chip away at one of John McCain's strongest support blocks.
A link to the editorial can be found here for those interested in anger management.
