That Goes Boom #6/Gomer Says “Surprise” #2: Thanks Move On

So the Senate held debate today about Move On. The revulsive Patraeus ad, which appeared in the NYT last week and has drawn increasingly vociferous opposition from the right, was a political folly that’s going to continue to be an issue.

Ed Schultz talked about it today, reiterating it as a reason to join Move On and send them money. He calls the debate over the ad “honky tonk” and a “waste of taxpayers’ money.” He’s absolutely right on those latter points, but wrong that it’s a good reason to send them money.

Whatever this is, be it “honky tonk”, a “waste”, an offense to the 1st Amendment, it was foreseeable. It doesn’t take a genius to see that offending a uniformed soldier, whatever his political purpose or persuasion, would not help our efforts to end the war.

The “they don’t support the troops” crap had been put to rest, but with Bush’s statement today, and the debate in the Senate, it has been resurrected by a politically irresponsible stunt. As I’ve said before, there’s a number of different ways they could have approached that ad, but chose the second worst option possible (the worst would have been to call him “babykiller” in grand yippie Tantrum Left fashion).

So thanks again, Move On, for not thinking things through.