How to Elect a Republican President (and Congress) in 2008

Posted by Joe Klein Monday, July 23, 2007 at 5:31 pm

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Make impeachment an issue over the next 18 months...Including the impeachment of Nancy Pelosi!

Allow the Jacobin--off with their heads!--wing of the party to control the agenda. Keep calling for votes on Iraq that will fail. Don't call for votes on Iraq that might succeed (like the Salazar-Alexander Amendment).

Even though the Republican field is prohibitively pathetic, and the President's ratings have now reached the mid-twenties, a Democratic defeat in 2008 in entirely possibly if the public comes to believe that Democrats are only interested in futile, symbolic gestures.