  Nick Confessore over at urlLink TAPPED put it very nicely. "If the GOP, and the president, had not spent the years since 9/11 casting anyone who opposed their policies as little shy of a terrorist-lover, the Democrats would not feel the need to so aggressively glorify John Kerry's military service, and might instead revert to a more subdued and salutary kind of respect for and interest in those who serve. " 
