RE: RE: Failure is not an option...

Strother opines: "Nothing... other than that she has no worries that a child or spouse of her own could die fighting in a war that the majority of Americans realize is a big mistake."

When wars appear not to be going well, of course the majority of Americans will feel like it was a big mistake. Likewise, if a war appears to be going well, the majority of Americans will be fully in support of it. This is a good example of why one can't govern (or conduct a war) by using public opinion polls. In all the wars this country has fault in its history, there were many times during the conduct of those wars that things weren't going well and the American people thought it was a big mistake. Just think if Lincoln, FDR, Truman, etc. would have followed public opinion polls while they were conducting those wars... This country would have been screwed.

"BTW, how viciously do you think that a single and childless Democratic politician would be attacked by Republican politicians in a comparable situation? Worse, maybe?"

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) is gay, and I haven't heard a Republican politician use the line that since Frank is single & childless, he is clueless about particular situations.