Second, in hindsight we get to sit back and look at all of the Bushies lies about Iraq (Rumsfeld's "bulletproof" link between Iraq and Saddam, the lie about the aluminum tubes for rockets, the lack of WMD's and the lie about the mobile WMD labs)."

See, this is the problem right here. For one, I was with Krav at this lunch with the friend. I wholeheartedly disagree with the assessment of his friend that Dems need to be "nicer" than Republicans, but that is an issue for another time. The entire TONE of the quote above is what is going to lose the next election for the Democrats. Referring to Bush as "shrub" and calling people "bastards" is the equivalent of the same kind of madness that infested the Republicans when Bill Clinton was in office, and the reason they lost so badly in '96. If people/candidates are going to use this kind of language they may as well put a Bush/Cheney bumper-sticker on thier car. They will be handing the lection to him on a silver platter.