Some excellent advice for Democrats in The Wall Street Journal. But it's hard to see them taking it.

The problem is that too many of them played into the "Bush is Evil" theme in order to try to rally their base and win in 2004. Now, not only do they risk looking hypocritical by changing (something that often doesn't worry politicians), but they have the problem of cognitive dissonance. In a sense, many of them actually worked themselves into a belief that there were lies, in order to feel justified in whipping up their base as they did. Now that they've made themselves believe it, it's hard to "unring the bell" as it were. After all, how would you justify helping or working with a President that you've essentially called a liar, a warmonger and stupid?

I won't be blogging again until tomorrow afternoon.