Republicans in a post-post-9/11 era
Suppose that during the previous administration the Democrats had opposed President Bush’s efforts to protect airplanes from would-be bombers and had blocked his strategy to keep nuclear weapons out of terrorists’ hands.
It’s a safe bet Bush would charge, as he did more than once during his presidency, that Democrats are “not interested in the security of the American people.” Other Republicans would no doubt be running ads juxtaposing Democrats with Osama bin Laden, or alleging, as they did then, that Democrats are giving “comfort to America’s enemies.”