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That's the line we liberals were fed in 2000, too. Bush and Gore, not a dime's worth of difference between them, right? I'm sure if Gore had become president, he would have fired all of Clinton's terrorism people, ignored that "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US" briefing, gone to war in Iraq, set up extrajudicial prisons, put Roberts and Alito on the Supreme Court, and all that. And if Bush had been the one going home emptyhanded in November of 2000, he'd have a Nobel Peace Prize by now for telling us all about climate change. Right?