A caller to the Rush Limbaugh show this afternoon said that John McCain was the Republican Party's Jane Fonda. Limbaugh hemmed and hawed and finally replied that, unlike Fonda, McCain loved his country. This misses the point. The caller's point (I take it) is that McCain was as disloyal to his party as Fonda was to her country. The larger point is that McCain was capable of disloyalty.
Now, it may be that disloyalty to party isn't as bad, morally, as disloyalty to one's country. It may also be that McCain wasn't as disloyal to his party as Fonda was to her country. These are legitimate points. What is not legitimate is distorting the caller's point. The caller neither said nor implied that McCain was disloyal to his country. Indeed, it's entirely possible for a person to be disloyal in one respect, or to one person or entity, and loyal in another respect, or to another person or entity. McCain may well have been loyal to his country but not to his party.
