The Obama camp puts him on the payroll:

The disconnect between what Democrats are saying about Iraq and what is actually happening there has reached grotesque proportions. Democrats won an exhilarating electoral victory in 2006 pledging withdrawal at a time when conditions in Iraq were dire and we were indeed losing the war. Two years later, when everything is changed, they continue to reflexively repeat their “narrative of defeat and retreat” (as Joe Lieberman so memorably called it) as if nothing has changed.

It is a position so utterly untenable that John McCain must seize the opportunity and, contrary to conventional wisdom, make the Iraq war the central winning plank of his campaign. Yes, Americans are war-weary. Yes, most think we should not have engaged in the first place. Yes, Obama will keep pulling out his 2002 speech opposing the war.

But McCain’s case is simple. Is not Obama’s central mantra that this election is about the future, not the past? It is about 2009, not 2002. Obama promises that upon his inauguration, he will order the Joint Chiefs to bring him a plan for withdrawal from Iraq within 16 months. McCain says that upon his inauguration, he’ll ask the Joint Chiefs for a plan for continued and ultimate success.

Preceded and followed by reams of good ol’ fashioned Happy Talk, although I’m sorry to see that the We’re Painting Schools! talking point has fallen out of fashion since 2003.  This is such a good idea I can’t believe it. John McCain should reward Charles Krauthammer for his great idea by selecting him as his running mate. Then everytime anyone mentions how it would be historic if America elected its First Black President, McCain could counter by saying how historic it would be if America elected its First Undead Vice-President Since Dick Cheney. And then he could call his millionaire trophy wife a cunt to make everyone fall in love with the Republicans all over again. Stay The Course For Change. You’ve really got your necrotic finger on the pulse of the body politic, CK.