Thursday, June 07, 2007

McClellan's party

Whether the issue was slavery and disunion in 1864, the Cold War in 1968, or the War on Terror in 2004, each of these elections shared one feature in common: a hardline Republican demanding victory while a Democrat insisted the war under discussion was a failure that required retreat if not surrender.

Are they all French, or what?

3 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...

Don't forget to remind the Democrats how Dems are actually supposed to act (see J.F. Kennedy and F.D.R.).

Tecumseh said...

FDR, Truman, JFK Dems -- those are gone, pretty much like the Dodo bird. Maybe Lieberman is the last of the Mohicans?

My Frontier Thesis said...

Did this particular story mention any of those Dems? It's important to remind them nowadays that, historically, it is alright to defend oneself.