McCarthyite Chaitred

In his Standard Online column today Lord High Chamberlain of the Blogosphere Hugh Hewitt pursues Jonathan Chait on Chait’s charge that Bush aides impugned the patriotism of former Georgia Senator Max Cleland in the last election cycle: “The national security gap.”

In this column Hugh plays Joe Louis to Chait’s Max Schmeling; as Louis said of Schmeling, he can ran but he can’t hide.