In response to a question yesterday, I spent some time looking up what I could find online from December 7, 1942 and 1943. Certainly no "quagmire" talk. Rather, warships were deliberately launched and entered ports -- like Pearl Harbor -- on 12/7/43. The President was in Malta and drew attention to the anniversary. Perhaps a few Republicans were grousing about his conduct of the war and why it was taking so long to invade France, but I haven't seen much evidence of it in my history books about the war. I doubt that there was a deliberate effort to undermine confidence in the war effort for crass political gain.