Hugh Hewitt comments on Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard article which is basically bow shot to those Republicans (mostly in name only) who are riding the defeatest democrats in their quest to leave Iraq to the wolves.

“Bill Kristol writes bluntly about the choice facing Republican senators next week. It is a piece that will circulate throughout the Beltway this weekend, hopefully to good effect. But even Kristol understates the fury that is building among party regulars towards senators who have thrown in with Carl Levin to, as Howard Dean put it, “repudiate the president’s policy.” (The same anger is building towards the House leadership’s embrace of me-too defeatism embodied in Republican Leader Boehner’s resolution, though there the error is a blunder, not a purposeful one, and might yet be corrected by the withdrawal of the resolution.)”

As I have written and spoke about during my radio show, some of our GOP leaders are making a critical error of judgement if they think they can side with the democrats on their cut and run moves and still stay in office. No matter what the MSM tries to sell you the conservative base in this country is serious about success in Iraq and dead serious on a proactive approach to terrorism.

As I said these so-called Republicans like John Warner of Virginia, Gordon Smith of Oregon, and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and Chuck Hagel, are going to find their collective asses on the street if they throw our mission and the sacrifices in the toilet of history. Hugh throws the gaunlet down:

“As I have often written and said over the past two weeks, I won’t support any Republican senator who supports Levin-Warner, and I won’t support the NRSC if it supports any such senator. Senator McConnell declared on my program yesterday that the NRSC will continue to support all incumbents regardless of how they vote on the war, so if Levin-Warner comes to a vote and Warner does not abandon his own resolution, and Senators Collins and Hagel with him, I and thousands of others will be done with the NRSC for another cycle. Either you believe the war is as serious and as dangerous as even most senators will declare, or you don’t. if you do, you cannot support the Democrats’ push for retreat at this difficult time –which will only be one of many difficult times in the years ahead.”

As a leader in the local GOP here in the bowels of South Florida I am making a similiar commitment to oppose any candidate - incumbent or otherwise - who take the path of least resistance and of great danger to this country.