Jackie: Well, first of all become a doctor and discover a marvelous cure for something, and then, when the medical profession really starts to take notice of you, you can jolly well tell them what to do and make sure they get everything right so there’ll never be any diseases ever again.

Alan: Thanks, Jackie. Great idea.

First, we’re gonna capture Osama bin Laden, next we are gonna give every American the health care they need, after that we will will stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, then …ect.

Actually, to me the best scenario would be for the GOP to keep control of Congress but lose a few seats in both the House and Senate. That just might scare the GOP back into sense, or at least closer to it. That would also make it that much harder for President Bush to get another conservative Supreme Court nominee through if, as has been widely speculated, another justice retires in the near future.

Yep, and it wasn’t a very appetizing prospect to have someone in that position sitting in the White House.

Kerry’s failure of vision persists within the party because it is a party’s presidential candidates and not its Congressional leaders who define a party’s worldview. So while it’s not of great importance that the national security plan lacks vision, it is important that the party as a whole has yet to reconcile how we need to view the radical Islamist threat. Through a different kind of confrontation? Through appeasement? Through something else?

Exactly. Until that happens, a significant number of voters who might otherwise vote for a Democratic candidate will be very, very wary indeed.