Conservatives make no distinction between the heroism of American troops and the policies they are sent to enforce. If liberals get Americans killed for their policies, conservatives will declare those liberal policies to be holy. In Vietnam, conservatives started out saying that we should either fight to win or get out. At first, conservatives said that Americans troops were not just tokens to be spent in a hopeless, no-win war. But by the end of that war, conservatives were blindly backing the endless bloodbath in Indo-China.
Conservatives have no memory, but liberals remember all of that.
That is why the media is crazy about McCain, and why they were just as crazy about Nelson Rockefeller. You and I are paying for Federal grants to the Northeast to pay for their heating oil this cold winter. New Englanders are complaining about the high price of their heating oil. Since respectable conservatives have no memory, it is up to me to remind you of why that bill is so high. There is no reason for New England to be using heating oil to warm their houses.