Trying Times
The Army Times has an editorial calling for the relieving of "top leaders" from their duties for their failure in leadership in the Iraqi Abu Ghraib-gate (you saw the term here first - ed.) prison scandal. While they do not specifically say so, it seems they include the Chair of the Joint Chiefs, General Richard Myers and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
If that weren't enough, the well respected conservative columnist George Will seems to be at least raising the question as to Rumsfeld resigning.
There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that U.S. President Lyndon Johnson, after finding out that CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite had turned against the war in Vietnam, said: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." And if he'd lost middle America, he wasn't going the get re-elected.
While I will admit that it is not a perfect analogy, I wonder if conservative sources such as the Army Times and George Will are calling for the resignation of our top leaders that perhaps our leaders too have lost the support of middle America.