Woe is Michael Kinsley's Party, the Future Looks Bright

Woe is Michael Kinsley's Party, the Future Looks Bright

Saddam is caught. Unemployment is down. The stock market is up. Democrats are down.

"If you're the challenger, what's good for the voters is bad for you, and what's bad for the voters is good for you. When the stock market goes down, it buoys you up. When the market goes up, it brings you down."

And, bless his heart, Michael Kinsley points out a disconnected Democratic argument (previous noted here).

"Virtually every Democratic candidate including Dean followed another puzzling convention of American politics by saying that the capture of Saddam was a reason, or at least an occasion, to draw in other nations. Their most common complaint about the war has been that it isn't "multilateral." It's hard to see how this argument is affected one way or another by finding Hussein in a hole. "