Rich Lowry: Hide Your Daughters

In the blink of an eye, we've gone from opening combat jobs to women to Republican presidential candidates endorsing registering women for a draft.

Hide your daughters -- our deluded and cowardly political elites are a clear and present danger to common sense.

A proposal from the chief of staff of the Army and the commandant of the Marine Corps to require that women register with Selective Service seemed at first like an effort to highlight the absurd endpoint of the rush to women in combat, but top Republicans duly saluted and fell in line.

Asked about the proposal at the recent Republican de...