Rush has tried to coin the concept that "Dims own defeat."
I think this is wrong. Dims have solidly positioned this as "Bush's War." They are now in a position to make us lose, and also blame it on Bush, the Republicans, and conservatve principles in general--if the media play along (LOL).
There's even talk today of impeachment. Hard to see how that could be stopped on the heels of the Libby verdict. Not even clear that a trial in the Senate would be able to render a sensible not guilty.
So in this kind of climate, the anti-Hillary candidate says what? "More military spending! Tax cuts! Kick out the dirty mexicans!"
I don't think so.
One of the things the Dems ran on was that Bush didn't know how to handle the Iraq situation, that was one of the reasons the whole advisory council got formed and made their report. Now they're opposing one of the recommendations of the council (the troop surge), but they can't even get their ducks in a row to make their opposition to this official.
And if they go for impeachment that's only going to help the GOP. Impeachment doesn't play well with the middle, they don't like bitter revenge driven politics. The impeachment of Clinton really hurt the GOP in 96, and if the Dems go down that path we can use the exact same campaign in 08 they used in 96, hammer them for distracting the goverment from important thing and wasting time and money on political vengeance.