We've Found the Pimple on Limbaugh's Ass -- It's Tom Tancredo

Some interesting news from Buzzflash today: Bottom-feeding-tier presidential candidate Tom Tancredo (R-Chickenhawk), congressman out of Colorado, was eligible to serve in Vietnam but didn't go.

Tancredo, a war-hawk on Iraq and a drum-beater on Iran, apparently was no different when it came to Vietnam: He supported the war way back then, but he didn't have to go fight it, either.

The reason: Tancredo had been treated for "depression" when he was a teenager and was classified 1-Y by his draft board.

Getting a 1-Y classification was not the same as 4-F, but it was almost a golden parachute. For a long time I was classified 1-Y myself, but I had to keep reporting, on a regular and frequent basis, for draft physicals until they finally got tired of seeing me, reclassified me 1-A and drafted my ass.

The point being that a 1-Y pretty much kept you from getting drafted until the condition was corrected -- or corrected itself.

So Tancredo -- like Limbaugh -- was a chickenhawk who was happy to cheer us on from the sidelines, but wasn't so gung ho that he was willing to enlist and go to Vietnam.

Incidentally, back in the day, a 1-Y classification kept you from actually being drafted, but the vast majority of those 1-Ys were for conditions that, like Limbaugh's ass pimple, would not have prevented you from enlisting in the service. Especially the army, who would take you as long as you were room temperature, regardless of your draft status.

And, as one of the commenters on the Buzzflash story says, if Tom Eagleton was "unfit" for the vice-presidency way back in '72 because he had been treated for depression, why is Tancredo now suitable to be president, having been treated for the same thing?

The answer: Because Rethugs have absolutely no problem with their own hypocrisy.