Former Abu Ghraib Bad Guy To Run for Senator in Texas...As a Democrat?

A lot of people are shaking their heads today at the rumor that Ricardo Sanchez may run for Senate in Texas as a Democrat.  Sanchez was the commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib prison mess and was widely criticized...by Democrats...who wanted him held personally liable.  Jim Geraghty has more in his Morning Jolt email:

A bunch of conservative bloggers, including myself, noted the rumor that Ricardo Sanchez, former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, could end up running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat.

Ed Driscoll tries to get his head around a stunning about-face: "In 2004, theNew York Times, perhaps the chief house organ of Democrat politics, ran 32 consecutive front page stories on the incident at Abu Ghraib, establishing during that election year that this was a very, very bad thing. (The more recent'Obama Ghraib' incident in Afghanistan? Not so much, of course.) But that hasn't stopped the Democrats from apparently wanting to, as Bryan Preston writes at the Tatler, 'run the highest ranking officer who was connected to Abu Ghraib, whom the Army found to be derelict in his duties', for the US Senate."

Glenn Reynolds adds, "It's like they never cared about this stuff except insofar as they could score cheap partisan points. Gobsmackingly vile. Various readers expect to see Andrew Sullivan, Josh Marshall, etc. flacking for this guy. Well, stay tuned."

The left will line up behind this guy as though nothing every happened at old Grab Abu prison. As I've said on recent occasions, the anti-war left was not really anti-war, they were anti-Bush.