Reply #81: I am not a splinter factionlist, I am a factual 'splainer

[markus]

If we do not pressure all of the Democratic candidates to challenge Bush directly on the war as the cost of our votes, it is likely on to Syria unless we get very lucky. Bush unchallenged is the Command-In-Chief in time of War.

I am not laboring to build his triumphal arch. I am laboring to deny him his triumph.

I believe based on a long-time in mainstream politics (after getting my youthful ultra-leftist jollies out in the Seventies) that a candidate who agrees with Bush on the fundamental issue of going to war is not going to unseat him on the basis of its conduct.