Perhaps some enterprising academic will write an essay explaining how stereotype so easily overwhelms substance on this subject. Cleland, a former U.S. senator, lost three limbs to a grenade in Vietnam; yet, he was defeated by Saxby Chambliss, who labeled Cleland unpatriotic. Chambliss claims a bad knee kept him out of Vietnam.... [and] hard-right Republicans hail Junior, who never got within 5,000 miles of the enemy, as a daring flyboy. Go figure.