About That Petraeus-MoveOn Vote Last Week

Someone’s going to have to help me explain some things about this vote to me:

• How did a resolution like this, sponsored by a member of the minority party (Cornyn of Texas) get to the Senate floor?
• Did Harry Reid, who, as red-boxed above, voted against it, totally miscalculate, actually believing he had the votes to win because no Democrat senator had categorically condemned MoveOn’s “Betray Us” ad?
• Was, and is, Hillary Clinton still worried enough about winning the Democratic nomination that she had to bolster her far-left cred with the MoveOnsters, despite the considerable risk this vote poses to her general-election campaign?
• Do Joe Biden and BOOHOO (Barack O-bomb-a Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama) really think they will get a pass by not making a choice? (BOOHOO was there, yet didn’t vote; I don’t know whether Biden was there)
• Will Sherrod Brown’s clear calculation that no one in Ohio will remember his pro-smear vote 5 years from now at re-election time be correct?

The Bellwether Daily’s Bill Sloat was very unhappy with Sherrod Brown’s vote. Bill has yet to learn that every crucial vote with Brown appears to be about calculation, not conviction. Here’s a previous example. Is all of this is enough to keep his knee from jerking left in the voting booth the next time Brown’s name is on the ballot?

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ALSO: Duane Patterson, at Hugh Hewitt’s place, last Thursday –

If any of you have any inkling of what kind of presidential timber Illinois Senate Barack Obama possesses, all you have to do is look at this vote. The Cornyn vote was called, Obama came to the floor, and when he discovered what the vote was for, he left the floor and didn’t cast a vote. He literally ran away from merely casting a vote to support our top military general in the field. But that’s not even the most telling moment of the vote.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the next president of the United States, unless Republicans decide to run like Republicans again in 2008 and keep the White House in responsible hands, did cast a vote today, and voted against Petraeus, and for MoveOn.org, a watershed moment in her campaign. If she ever wanted her public image to be that of a moderate, it’s gone now with this vote. Hillary is one of three or four people that will be the next president of the United States, and she just tipped her hand that she shows more respect to the radical fringe of her base than she does to the country’s top general prosecuting a war that she originally supported.

Everything else that comes out of Hillary’s mouth from here to the election, whether it be smoke and mirrors about health care, education, whatever her polling tells her to say, keep in mind that when you hear Hillary Clinton speak, you are hearing her channel what MoveOn.org has approved her to say. If Republicans are smart, they’ll remind people of this vote from now until the election.

ALSO II: Ken Blackwell at Townhall last Saturday –

President Clinton would have condemned this ad.

But not Hillary Clinton.

….. Senator Clinton has gone so far to the left, she is so committed to the priorities of the blame-America-first, anti-military extremist fringe, that she cannot bring herself to denounce even a vicious attack piece against a heroic soldier. Even when she could hide behind Speaker Pelosi’s comments and has full political cover, she refuses.

This is the man she voted to send to Iraq just earlier this year, when everyone was singing his praise. Now she calls him a liar, and defends those who call him a traitor.

I thought she would be smarter than this. Senator Clinton has done more damage to herself than she knows.

And, of course, she initially voted for the war, and defended the decision for several years after that vote. What I said about calculation v. conviction about Sherrod Brown clearly also applies to Mrs. Clinton.