White Flag Republicans

I think the seven Republican senators and the 17 Republican House members who deserted the cause of victory in the war have their own political vulnerability.

There’s something called primaries we have in America, and there will be primary challenges in the Republican Party against some of those congressmen and, I hope, against some of those senators, and they deserve to be primaried, because they are acting, I think, in a shameful way.

There are a handful of them in the House who have always been against the war. I guess they get to keep that up.

But those who are flipping now for expedient reasons when the president of the United States sends additional reinforcements over, when David Petraeus says we have a chance to win, and they flip to vote for non- binding resolution that is the first step to crippling the ability to win this war — and it’s Jack Murtha’s cynical plan to do this through his control — his ability to shape the appropriations process — those Republicans, I think, have political vulnerability to Republican primary challenges.