Rove Jujitsu 101

This just in, the neocons think Joe Biden's foreign policy expertise is actually his biggest problem and he's a complete pussy because he hasn't nuked Iran yet.

As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden is well versed in policy debates and carefully choreographed trips. But his record on the Islamic Republic of Iran -- perhaps the chief national security threat facing the next president -- suggests a persistent and dangerous judgment deficit. Biden's unyielding pursuit of "engagement" with Iran for more than a decade has made it easier for Tehran to pursue its nuclear program, while his partisan obsession with thwarting the Bush administration has led him to oppose tough sanctions against hard-liners in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

Pay attention class, this is classic Karl Rove Jujitsu 101: A Democrat's biggest strength is their actual weakness, and a Republican's biggest weakness is their most powerful asset.

In this case, Joe Biden will be equated to all of George Bush's foreign policy failures and blamed for them because he was unable to stop Bush from making the mistakes in the first place, while John McSame will represent a bold new direction of repeating all of Bush's mistakes and finding a way to make to make them much, much worse.