Crush Liberalism

From Marc Ambinder:

Liberals are having a conniption over Sen. John McCain’s purported endorsement of a draft today.

In Las Crucas, New Mexico, a woman asked McCain about the “horrible conditions” that veterans often see when return from combat. Here’s the last few sentences:

My son is an officer in the Air Force, I’m a vet., and I was raised in a military family. And I think it’s a sorry state of affairs. When we have illegal aliens; having a medic-aid card that can access specialists, top physicians, the best of medical, and our vets can’t even get to a doctor. And these are the people that we tied yellow ribbons for and Bush patted on the back. If we don’t re-enact the draft, I don’t think we’ll have anyone to chase Bin Laden to the gates of Hell.

His critics focus on the first sentence:

SEN JOHN MCCAIN: Ma’am let me say that I don’t disagree with anything you have said, and thank you.

So he agrees that unless there’s a draft, the war on terror can’t be won?

Not exactly. I’ve heard McCain tell numerous audiences that he opposes a new draft. As the context makes clear, McCain is focusing on the meat of the question and not the woman’s exclamation at the end. Unless you think McCain privately favors the draft and let the cat out of the bag, you’re going to have reach to conclude that he’s radically changed his mind here. …

The video clip is here, so you can make up your own mind.

Besides, what is the left getting their Birkenstocks in a bunch for?  One of their own, Charlie “Rent Control” Rangel is the guy who tried to bring back the draft.  Of all the bellyaching the left does about the right trying to reinstitute a draft, it seems they would be quite vocal about their own moonbat leaders who try to do it.