Isolated

While the great blog minds of our time puzzle this one out, let me add my voice to the throngs.

I think this is a real basic thing - if Bush comes out against something, then the public will figure that his opponents are for it. Why else would the President have to speak out against it, right? Republicans will no coubt fall in line, too. They do, after all, have a lot riding on it.

And that's the broad brush that Republicans will paint with at first, until they can find a smaller, more muck filled brush to try and take 2006 with. And while Democrats aren't really isolationist, it's been proven time and time again that reality doesn't matter in the face of a Republican smear.

So it will end up something like this. The war on terror is everywhere, especially in Iraq. It has become the central front, they'll say. And if you want to bring our troops home and away from the central front, then you want to isolate yourself from terror and hope it doesn't happen again. That's isolationist when it comes to the war on terror.

At least that's my hunch.