Gen. Peter Pace for Senate?

Today, Gen. Peter Pace retires as Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman. The National Review is calling on Virginia to draft Pace to run for Senate:

Defense secretary Robert Gates declined to recommend Pace for another two-year term in the military’s top job, fearing that contentious Senate confirmation hearings would rehash past decisions about the war in Iraq. But Pace has another route to the Senate: Virginia conservatives should recruit him to be their candidate in next year’s race to replace the state’s retiring senior senator, Republican John Warner. [...]

Virginia Republicans should tell this devoted patriot that he is not done, and encourage him to take on another mission.

Pace has been a consistent defender of the Bush administration’s policies, insisting in 2006 that everything in Iraq is “going very, very well from everything you look at” and claiming that Donald Rumsfeld “leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country.” More recently, he calledl homosexuality “immoral” and a “sin.”