As some are fond of imagining, this won't be the first time that George Bush won a war in Iraq and then lost a bid for relection. Then again, this won't be the first time that George Bush demolished a liberal governor from Massachusetts that wanted to raise taxes and ban guns either. Oh, sorry, John Kerry was only a liberal lieutenant governor from Massachusetts that wants to raise taxes and ban guns. Darn, these analogies always break down somewhere. Maybe the fact that John Kerry was Michael Dukakis' lieutenant governor will mitigate this analogic dissonance and restore the electoral harmonic convergence.