If the Dems were truly machiavellian, they would go after the Buchanan/Perot vote and play the isolationism card.

It’s obvious that a large part of the public is suffering battle fatigue, so a winning strategy for the Dems would be to praise limited interventions–like Afghanistan– to the hilt, and trash both the Iraq War and the non-”allies” and the UN.

At the same time, trash NAFTA, those evil outsourcers, drug companies, fatcats generally.

Right now, after three bruising years, the majority of Americans are probably more keen on withdrawal from the big bad world than on the long twilight struggle. The neo-cons’ vision is of national honor and national greatness. A country that flocks to see the vile agitprop peddled by Chomsky’s retarded little brother Mikey is not a nation that can be persuaded to step up to a vision of greatness.

Thank our lucky stars that the Dems’ strategists are too stupid to realize this. Or maybe they’re simply too deeply in the pocket of a certain Hungarian billionaire currency-trader?