[+/-] Can only Republicans be war heroes?

"Republicans don't believe that anyone else can be a patriot or a hero. To them, that idea is absurd -- indeed, against the order of nature.... What the discrediting of Kerry's war record is really about is the conservative belief that liberals can't be heroic.... If Julius Caesar were running for president, they would question his conduct in Gaul. If Hannibal were running, they would complain that he had stolen their elephants."

Yeah, that about sums it up.