[Jim Noble]

I don't know what is going on in the rest of the country, but the congressional seat in NH-01 was lost (to a raving moonbat) because of Iraq and nothing else.

And there's no doubt that there was a working coalition of "win or get out" plus the usual kooks.

I was, and remain, very, very upset at the attempts by the GOP and the FR bots to enforce a "everything is really going well" party line before the election.

WE are supposed to be the reality-based folks. WE are supposed to have the tight OODA loop. WE are supposed to know that wishing doesn't make it so.

And if it turns out, when everything comes out (which it will), that Bush has been shining us on and had no intention of pursuing a winning strategy, it's going to be really, really bad.

[nathanbedford]

Jim, I agree with you completely. The irony of this whole situation, as you point out, is that we or the supposed to be the clearheaded ones with a firm grasp on the reality of the war against terrorism when it appears that it was the Democrats, even if for only partisan political purposes and without a shred of patriotism about them, who saw the dilemma of Iraq.

It Is this unwillingness on the part of the administration to deal with the reality of our Iraq before the election that the people saw through. It cost us the election, or at least exacerbated a bad situation. I think you have already read what I posted as my analysis of the election but here is the cite if anybody is interested:

WHY WE LOST

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1737230/posts