Brain Dead Politics

Max Boot poses this thought question in the Los Angeles Times:

How can you tell if a political party is brain-dead? Easy. It spends an entire campaign denouncing the incumbent as a smarmy, good-for-nothing liar, rather than outlining its own agenda. The Republicans tried it against Bill Clinton in 1996, the Democrats tried it against George W. Bush in 2004, and now in Britain the Conservatives are trying it, with equal lack of success, against Tony Blair.

What Boot says rightly about the Torries can also be said about some blogs that will remain nameless, which contains these two gems:

1. A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.
2. No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in March 2003.

Newsflash!  Both Blair and Bush were reelected!  Thats how such matters are ultimately judged in Democratic nations.  So far, those leaders who backed the invasion of Iraq have fared pretty well in the recent elections.

I urge the Brown County Democrats to spend all their time stewing over these issues.  Like the Torries, they could be out of power for a very long time.