When Newsweek decides to take a look at how veterans feel about McCain, I don’t begrudge them including a quote or two from the organization VoteVets. (They’re the first organization quoted.) And Newsweek does mention that former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark is on VoteVets’ board. But as I reported about the group back in May:

VoteVets advisory board members include former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark, former Democratic congressional candidates Paul Hackett, Tammy Duckworth and Andrew Horne, and former Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey. Co-founder and chairman Jon Soltz headed “Veterans for Kerry 2004″, hosted events for Kerry, and during the 2004 campaign criticized Bush for his attacks on McCain in 2000. (I guess McCain is only useful to Soltz when he can be used to criticize another Republican.)VoteVets’ communications director, Eric Schmeltzer, was a staffer for Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, and was deputy director of Howard Dean’s New York campaign. The group’s finance director, Malea Stenzel, was a fundraiser for unsuccessful Democratic House candidates Judy Aydelott and Shaun McNally. Political Director Evan Hutchison was regional director for Wesley Clark’s presidential campaign in 2004.
In the 2006 election cycle, VoteVets contributed $29,700 to Democratic candidates and organizations; the group contributed $2,100 to Sam Schultz, a primary challenger to GOP Rep. Mike Sodrel of Indiana.

This was back in May 2007, when the group was running attack ads against McCain. So the fact that an organization full of Democrats is critical of McCain now isn’t exactly shocking news…