MoveOn.org (h/t Weekly Standard) is running an anti-McCain ad on Iraq. This strikes me as manna from heaven for McCain. Barack Obama neatly missed the vote in the Senate condemning the MoveOn.org “Betray Us” ad aimed at General Petraeus and he seemed delighted to have MoveOn.org endorsement earlier in the year. But all that was eons ago in political time.

Now McCain has an opportunity to raise once again why Obama couldn’t manage to stand up and defend our general in wartime defamed by the left-wing hit squad of the Democratic party. After all, isn’t that the definition of leadership: bucking your own party at political risk for higher principles?