Lest They Get a Boo-Boo

Jesse Taylor, riffing on the latest bullshit rightwing meme - that McCain can't use email cuz of POW injuries - notices a larger overall impression such paper-thin defenses creates.

It’s telling that Jonah, along with the dozens of conservatives who’ve hopped on board this crazy train, are turning the Republican ticket into two innocent babes in the wood who can’t stand the slings and arrows of even the most indirect criticisms of them or their capacities.  Should you criticize Sarah Palin, you hate mothers and women and hunters and hockey and...well, I’m not a particularly big hockey fan.  Criticism of John McCain is slapping a prisoner of war in the face, telling him that his service means nothing.  The politically correct oversensitivity on display is turning McCain and Palin from the bold reformers they never were into sad little children, constantly needing protection from the scrapes and scratches of the world lest they get a boo-boo or come home crying about their hurt feelings too often. 

The battle over "weakness" and "toughness" continues.