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Garrison has a screw loose.
Bush has "military experience". The ambitious sons (and maybe, to some degree) daughters of the upper and professional classes and political classes -- the sons and daughters of senators and congressmen and federal judges and lobbyists -- would have the same "experience" created for them, just as the old machine did for GW Bush.
I am also trying to imagine the enormous ego boost this is giving to a former friend of mine, who developed her alcoholism and personality disorders more fully by serving three years getting paper cuts as Captain Butterbars, JAG officer. Like many deskbound one-tour-and- out "veterans", she already believes she is more of a citizen than those of us who didn't have the federal government buying our work clothes for the first couple of years of our careers. I, for one, don't want that sort of thinking institutionalized. That's how fascism begins.
