Twenty-three Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, have just voted against a “sense of the Senate” resolution that expresses general support for General David Petraeus and the U.S. military, and repudiates the well-known “General Betray-Us” ad from MoveOn.org. Biden and Obama had the good sense not to vote on it (or not to be there at all). Text of the resolution and more on the story at Hot Air.

This is clearly a gift that will keep on giving to whoever the Republican nominee for president turns out to be, and an astonishing mis-step by Hillary. Could it be that she is not as devastatingly intelligent as we have been led to believe?

And the fact that those other twenty-two Democrat U.S. Senators voted the same way is, in my view, genuinely sad and atrocious. Note that they were not being asked to condemn MoveOn.org across-the-board, or to return any donations they’ve received from that organization. They were merely being asked to repudiate one advertisement that directly (and ham-handedly) impugned the character of a general who is currently leading U.S. soldiers in combat. Sure, the resolution can be called a piece of “gotcha politics” by the Republicans. But the results are considerably more stark and revelatory than I would have predicted.

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