Tried to make the above argument a couple of years back at a Henry Jackson dinner in DC to like-minded military top brass, among whom it didn't seem to percolate. I love my fellow-reactionaries, by and large, but they are pretty stupid every now and then.

(Of course the Dems, and you are right to single out Obama's partisans, whose masks really were off from the beginning of the campaign, are MUCH WORSE. The Left didn't use to be like that. I grew up in a Socialist family, and dammit, they were DIFFERENT.)