Letters to the Editor
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Strategy
Here's something I've been wondering ever since 2003, when no candidate with a then-higher name recognition than Dean would criticize the war: If you're a long-shot candidate anyway, doesn't it make sense to get out in front on some major issue and hope that events prove you right?
Right now, that would suggest a Chuck Hagel candidacy. I know, you're going to say that any criticism of the war would doom a Republican in the primaries, but that's months in the future. Right now it would be Hagel vs. Everybody Else about the war. What if by December even most Republicans are seeing things differently?
The message is obvious: Iraq is an anvil that will pull down the whole Republican Party, dooming the nation to at least four years of liberal taxes and regulations, not to mention liberal judges. Only Chuck can ride to the rescue.