Normally I spend my time knocking the corporate elites of the Democratic Party, but this time I have some choice words for the rank-and-file Democratic voter.

Let's start with John McCain. A man who has never met a war he didn't like.

Democrats now view McCain much more positively than they did two years ago, with their 71% favorable ratings representing a 22-percentage-point increase since then. Republicans' opinions have grown more negative, though their 10-point decline (from 61% to 51%) is about half as large as the Democratic increase. Independents' opinions of McCain are virtually the same as they were two years ago.



Democrats once pretended to oppose extreme warhawkishness. Those days are over.

It isn't just McCain. Dems have warmed up to George Dubya Bush as well.



Bush's favorability now approaches that of former President Barack Obama, who measured at 63% in the same poll, conducted June 7-11.

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Compared with Bush's post-presidential low point in 2009, his favorable rating has nearly doubled among political independents to 56% and has increased fourfold among Democrats to 41%. His already positive 72% rating from Republicans in 2009 has improved less, registering 82% today.

George Bush is still a war criminal.

And let's not forget Hillary's embrace of the war criminal Henry Kissinger, who even today is pushing for war with Iran.

It's pathetic to watch Democrats make fools of themselves rehabilitating Republican war criminals like this. Even the establishment Democratic mouthpiece, Washington Post, has noticed.

The emerging unholy alliance between hawkish Democrats and neoconservatives

As for how I feel about this, Caitlin Johnstone summed up my position better than I could.



Have you recently found yourself wanting to vomit as one of your liberal friends says something like “Gosh, I never would have believed I’d agree with Dick Cheney on anything, but he really makes sense here” or “It’s exciting that we’re finally able to come together and agree on a few things with people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham”? They act like it’s some kind of ideology-transcending unification in the face of great evil, but nothing could be further from the truth: in reality, they’re finding themselves agreeing with the neocons lately because they themselves have become neocons. They are the same ideology, and they have become the evil.