Cease and desist, says Ed Gillespie. Rock the Vote, you're just trying to scare young people. Why, the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense all say there ain't gonna be no draft, so there. And we're mobilizing our army of young jackbooted thugs — sorry, I mean, committed young people!
Josh Marshall is right. Why aren't more people making a big deal of this? Rock the Vote is not saying "Vote for Kerry", "Vote for Bush," or, for that matter, "Vote for Nader". There could very well be a draft if something else happens that requires more troops than we currently have. This is true no matter who is in office. We are stretched thinner than we were before Iraq and Afghanistan. It is an indisputable fact, and it needs to be talked about openly. If there's a way to avoid needing a draft, then we can talk about that too.
