I saw the documentary 'The War Room' when it first came out. It was a fascinating look at how Presidential elections work. But ultimately, it was about politics, not policy. When the election was won, the war room disbanded.
Contrast that with this:
A war-room defense was "something we did well during the campaign," said Nicolle Wallace, Bush's communications director. "Maybe incorrectly, we had hoped or presumed that wouldn't be necessary after the election."It is. The war room now is back, staffed with many of the same people who ran it in 2004, led by the Boy Genius himself, Karl Rove.
Campaigns are about selling a candidate. That's fine. After the election, especially after the re-election, is it too much to ask that the focus be on actually governing the country?
The problem facing Bush is not that he didn't sell well enough. It's that his policy on Iraq stinks and needs to be deep-sixed immediately. No matter how much the new "War Room" tries to spin and smear, it's not going to change the essential problem here.
