My friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt notes that Sarah Palin is the first mother of an American soldier to be nominated for the second highest office in the land. I would add “soon to be deployed” to the descriptive before “American soldier.”

Do you realize how far this will go to disabuse the country of the made-up liberal lie that Republicans long for war? Do you realize how many mothers with kids in Iraq and Afghanistan will trust McCain-Palin to lead the American military strategically and into war only when necessary, given the high personal stakes BOTH of them have in the outcome? McCain has two sons in the military, one of whom just returned from a tour in Iraq. The other is at the Naval Academy and may be deployed to Iraq by the end of the year.

For the record, Joe Biden’s son will be deployed to Iraq in October. Biden’s reaction? “I don’t want him going.”