Perry,

>Unfortunately, as Chuck Hagel as said on the Senate floor, ""stay the course" is a focus group buzzword. And in this case it's working extremely well.

What's "working extremely well" for the GOP is the spectacle of Democrats falling all over themselves to find the most politically balanced way of saying, "We can't win so bring the troops home now regardless of the outcome." Yet, there they are, straining to loudly proclaim failure in the midst of several weeks of astounding success by the troops in cutting off the heads of the insurgency's leadership structure and following Zark's thumbdrive contents to roll up much of the underling structure as well.

Let's not forget the complete absurdity to most Americans of hearing one Democrat after another this week saying "This is not cut and run" when everyone knows full well that it is exactly that.

Anyone with any sense can see that there is a constitutionally elected government operating in Iraq despite the Democrats' attempts to say that the whole thing is a failure and that civil war is inevitable. Most Americans can see it for what it is and not for how the liberals want to paint it.

A party whose only hope of winning depends on America losing is in deep trouble in November, regardless of how much the extreme left wants to wish it away.