Double Standard?

Need you ask?

I guess not all Gold Star mothers have (in Maureen Dowd’s memorable words) “absolute moral authority.” Apparently only the nutcases like Cindy Sheehan do, perhaps because they tell the press what they want to hear:

Julia Conover lost her son, Marine Lance Cpl. Brandon Dewey, to a suicide bomber in Iraq exactly two months ago to the day Monday. She, too, attended the Modesto funeral of Lance Cpl. Long. She