Seems to me, that you'll take B

While watching Meet the Press yesterday morning, Virginia Democratic Senate candidate and former misogynist James Webb went after incumbent Republican Senator and still racist George Allen, attacking him for being one of a supermajority of Republican leaders and warhawks who never served honorably in uniform. In fact, with the exception of Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who served in peacetime in the mid 50's, and President Bush, who... Haha, that's right, he got drunk and went AWOL.

So it's a similar charge of chickenhawkacy, but to me, it still rings true. Certainly, military service does not automatically mean that one should be elected to high government office, but when you are continuously and blindly drumming up support for a failed war, woudn't it be better if you had actually served? And in George Allen's case, for some reason he thinks that mentioning that he spent a lot of time around football players means that he knows combat. A real man's man.

The chicken hawk strategy has pretty much failed all through history; McGovern and Nixon were both veterans but McGovern was a famed heroic pilot; Clinton "dodged" the draft and Bush 1 was shot down over the ocean, Gore and Kerry both volunteered for service in Vietnam and Bush 2, well, we know what happened to him... In all those cases, the veteran lost and non combatant won. Why do the Democrats still think this strategy will work?