Replies

The problem for the democrats is that the outbreak of terrorism restores us to the situation that prevailed during the Cold War, when the voting public came to think that it was unsafe to have a democrat as president. After Johnson, only Carter got elected, and that was by posing as a complete political outsider and a former Navy submarine commander. He proved incompetent in a dangerous world, and was dumped after one term. When the Cold War ended, the nation took a flyer with Clinton, a man who is now suspected of having laid the foundation for 9/11 (witness the frantic spinning efforts of the democrats against this conclusion). After Clinton, the democrats will have a very difficult time convincing Americans to go with a left-leaning liberal. Even democrats are now thanking their lucky stars that their candidate was not elected last year.