Good enough. But what we love is the way Taranto then summarizes the 2008 political landscape:
Actually, when you think about it, it's amazing how similar the 2008 race is to the 2004 race. We have a formidable establishment candidate who originally backed the war, then changed his mind (John Kerry then, Hillary Clinton now); a challenger who has opposed the war all along, and who is clearly out of his depth (Howard Dean, Barack Obama); and a third guy who stands around looking pretty (John Edwards, John Edwards). The biggest difference is that Mike Gravel doesn't quite have the gravitas of a Carol Moseley Braun.
This year, of course, everyone seems to think the Democrats are very likely, even guaranteed, to win. That's because, unlike in 2004, George W. Bush is very, very unpopular. The biggest danger for the Dems, then, is that their nominee will figure out that Bush is not on the ballot and won't know what to do.
Indeed. And so we join many other prescient politicos today in welcoming to the Queen City of the West the man who will be on the ballot, Our Man, the Next President of the United States, Rudy Giuliani. We hope that he enjoys his visit to our city, and we hope the well-heeled Republicans of Indian Hill send him away with lots of boodle to crush Hillary a year from this November.
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*For more on the changing political tides generated by the changing phases of military success, see the impeccable Victor Davis Hanson's summary at NRO.
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