Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) makes his high school English teacher weep while defending Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on CNN’s “Late Edition” today:

And the fact that we’re in a — that this is a tough time and a tough point in this progress toward a free Iraq doesn’t mean that you change horses because you’re in a tough ball game and there’s lots of difficulties.

We shouldn’t throw the long bomb with a full count in the home stretch… Yeah.