ALMOST AS BAD AS THE DEMOCRAT YOU PLAN NOT TO VOTE FOR!

Anatol Lieven thinks that, though "it may seem incredible to say this, given past experience, but a few years from now Europe and the world could be looking back at the Bush administration with nostalgia." The reason? John McCain. McCain is a guy who advocated a policy of "rogue state rollback," in which you "arm, train, equip, both from without and from within, forces that would eventually overthrow the governments" we don't like. These same forces would go on to "install free and democratically elected governments." These are the foreign policy pronouncements of a knave. Additionally, he'd like to kick Russia out of the Group of Eight, wants 100 years of war, and is notoriously quick to anger -- a nasty tendency for the diplomat-in-chief. Oh, and he's outsourcing his foreign policy thinking to Osama bin Laden.

Meanwhile, the DNC has looked into the arc of McCain's commentary on Iraq, and noticed some, err, inconsistencies. In particular, they've noticed McCain denying he'd ever said things that he'd said. When other politicians do this, it's called lying. And McCain does it very, very blatantly, couched in rhetoric meant to show how honest and willing to face up to hard truths, he is. Good thing he's got all this protective cred.