Reply #46: What do you mean "so what"

[moggie12]

It's not an either/or proposition, i.e., that you're either reflexively pro-war (like Bush) or reflexively anti- war (like some on the left). Somewhere in the middle is an appropriate response: E.g., our response to terror should mostly involve "soft" actions (economic and political means), only using force when necessary. Democrats can't win elections if they categorically reject the use of force.

Your second point misses the point I was trying to make. Sure they would've tried to discredit Moore even if he'd been surrounded by kittens, but they would have been MUCH LESS succesful at it had he not be so virulently anti-Bush.