The Doctor is in the House!
Victor Davis Hansen has his usual high-quality column up at NRO. This time the good doctor argues that the Howard Dean-John Kerry-John Murtha cabal is the mainstream of the Democratic Party. And maybe only Joe Lieberman can beat some sense into them:

Dean, Kerry, and Murtha are bright and good men who rightly worry that more Americans will die in a far-off place for a cause that they think is now hopeless. But to follow their apparently popular advice would lead to an abject national disaster as well as calamity for their own party. In short, they have become metaphors of why even Democrats are uneasy about voting for Democrats.

More importantly, the Democrats spent the last quarter century, following Vietnam and Jimmy Carter, trying to reestablish their lost fides on national defense (which were once unquestionable in the age of FDR, Truman, JFK, and senator Henry Jackson). If Joe Lieberman cannot save mainstream Democrats from themselves, perhaps the Iraqis who vote on December 15 can.

- posted by Base10 @ 11:00 AM