So you're thinking Mr. Culture War sold right back out, that all his noise about the neoconservatives was just that? Noise? That he's squarely returned to the Bush army?
Read on, dear friends. Read on.
There is another reason Bush must win. The liberal establishment that marched us into Vietnam evaded punishment for its loss of nerve and failure of will to win--by dumping LBJ, defecting to the children's crusade to "give peace a chance," then sabotaging Nixon every step of the way out of Vietnam until they broke his presidency in Watergate. Ensuring America's defeat, they covered their tracks by denouncing their own war as "Nixon's War."
If Kerry wins, leading a party that detests this war, he will be forced to execute an early withdrawal. Should that bring about a debacle, neocons will indict Democrats for losing Iraq. The cakewalk crowd cannot be permitted to get out from under this disaster that easily. They steered Bush into this war and should be made to see it through to the end and to preside over the withdrawal or retreat. Only thus can they be held accountable. Only thus can this neo-Jacobin ideology be discredited in America's eyes. It is essential for the country and our cause that it be repudiated by the Republican Party formally and finally.
Aside from the "cut and run" shit, which is just boilerplate, I agree. The reason I'm okay if Bush wins is that the temple will fall down on his head and he'll ruin the fundamentalist right's political power for a generation, if not forever. Why make Bush the Republican Jimmy Carter when you can make him the new Herbert Hoover?