I'm remiss, too...

...in pointing you toward the work of Carla at Preemptive Karma, whose recent work on the Washington Governor's race transcends ordinary blogging and constitutes extraordinary journalism. I'm not sure you can fully grasp what's going on here without keeping up with her efforts.

She's been focused on one of the major whines of the Republicans, that military votes were treated unfairly, despite the absence of complaints from the military. In fact, as Carla reports, the DoD went to some extraordinary efforts of their own to promote the exercise of the franchise among the ranks (something even I will concede Rummy got right, even if his motives were all wrong), and take some deserved pride in the results.

Rossi, Vance and their brigade of radio talkers and wingnut bloggers, though, disparage those efforts and would have you believe that those efforts were for naught and that stories like the Stars and Stripes report that "...the US military has found no evidence of problems with overseas military absentee ballots" are a sign of some kind of incompetence, lack of concern or evil conspiracy on the part of our military commanders.

Once again I'm left wondering...

Why do Republicans hate the men and women who fight for America?