The Putin Democrats: Democrats are loyal to the wrong president.

Opinion Journal (WSJ) ^ | September 11, 2001 | RICH LOWRY

[aculeus]

One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of the first President Bush was that politics should stop at the water's edge. The second President Bush can't afford such a quaint illusion, so redolent of the glory days of bipartisan defense policy. Bush the Younger, after all, governs in the age of the Putin Democrats.

[A+Bert (Outta here)]

Putin is a Russian Nationalist and he will do what ever he thinks is right for Russia. If it is a return to dictatorship like the past he will do it. If it is a return to the Cold War he will do it.

What is so difficult to understand about a leader acting in his own nations Self-interest?

[aculeus]

I think the point of the column is the behavior of Democrats -- American citizens -- not that of Putin.