The 'Nation' at War

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"--President Bush has gone from being an unalloyed asset to being a mixed bag (at best) and in some places an obvious drag for GOP candidates;

"--Kilgore and Forrester are not great candidates;

"-- Democrats can now (again) plausibly argue that they can win by advocating bigger government programs for things such as health care and education;

"-- the Democratic victory lap that starts today will jazz up their donors and help candidate recruitment;

"-- the discipline of the Rove-Mehlman team in keeping negative the-sky-is-falling quotes out of the papers is remarkable (but just wait until Thursday);

"-- if the Republicans can avoid mass retirements in Congress, even a politically weak Bush probably won't cost them control of either chamber (but they will obsess about all this for quite some time);

"-- the Washington Post Metro staff needs some deprogramming to get over its Mark Warner Stockholm Syndrome;

"-- thank goodness that the Schwarzenegger political consultants aren't afraid of Maria Shriver;

"-- Terry McAuliffe and Howard Dean are friggin' geniuses;

"-- winning is better than losing;

"-- if John Kerry could talk as comfortably about his personal faith as Tim Kaine can, he would be the President of the United States right now;

"-- if Howard Dean could talk as comfortably about his personal faith as Tim Kaine can, he would have been the Democratic nominee in 2004;

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