Are you happy Hillary was denied the presidency because of her war vote?

[Nixon in '80]

If a Democratic President had started the Iraq war, a good portion of the party would have rallied behind him and a good portion of pro war Republicans would have become anti war.

And that's relevant because...?

The political science literature tells us that partisans sometimes make their decisions based on what famous people whom they like say. For example, prior to the bombing halt in 1967 most Americans were against a bombing halt. But after it was announced, most Americans shifted to favor it. The same goes with partisans of one party. Had a Democratic President launched the war, and all the Democratic politicians were saying the war was good, and all the Republican politicians were saying it was bad, most Democrats probably would have ended up favoring the war, and most Republicans opposing it.

In other words, a lot of the polling vis-a-vis the war reflected partisanship rather than innate inclinations. No party has a monopoly on isolationist, anti- war tendencies, or internationalist tendencies.

Case in point: Kosovo

I'm not saying Kosovo and Iraq are very similar, they are not... but I believe the respective reactions of the partisans from both sides effectively prove Beet's point.

[Nixon in '80]

That's funny, because Supersoulty frequently blasts me for my anti-Kosovo War and Kosovo independence arguments.

I commend you for your consistent non-interventionism... but you cannot deny that most Democrats, once the operation started, supported it, while a higher percentage of Republicans criticized it.