Listening to the campaign rhetoric, I start to wonder what Kerry's campaign would sound like if he were running in the 1950s at the height of the Cold War. I can almost hear him explaining that the victory in WWII had been botched -- sure, we knocked off the incompetent Nazis ("I always considered them a threat"), but we failed to win the peace in the East!

Or perhaps he would have taken the opposite angle: asserting that we should have moved pre-emptively against the Axis, instead of outsourcing our Pacific fleet to bottom of an island harbor!

Can a man really win the White House as a Monday-morning-quarterback who so solemnly and deliberately politicizes national security?

Hey, this is America -- all things are possible!