That’s it.  Ten years of political progressivism distilled.  That's their best shot?  The decade old top-secret, heart-felt, far-Left political play book distilled in a hardcore message to the progressive base?  Tina Brown's bottom-line argument!  This is the far-Left double-down, bottom-line, strongest argument!  This must read Tina Brown article reveals that the only way progressives can take political power in America is during wartime, exploiting America's soldiers, fighting on foreign soil.  To win political, totalitarian, progressive power in the USA, progressives admit taking sides against America's soldiers for political gain. 

Let the Observer 'paraphrase' and 'distill' Tina Brown's bottom-line argument: "Progressives successfully exploited, for domestic political gain, military operations in Iraq undertaken by the Bush Rinos and NeoCons; so vote for progressives because progressives successfully waged effective domestic, party to party, political warfare while the USA was struggling in a brutal foreign war."  Study the progressive narrative people!!!   It’s pathetic!!!  Please study the progressive nature. 

For example, from day one of the Iraq war, Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt were post-American progressives who had no desire to protect the Constitution; a Free Republic; the homeland or win a shooting war.  Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt were openly post-American, meaning they want to ‘reform’ America until America is no longer a free Republic with liberty for all.  That's job one.  Both were willing to use the Iraq war as a political message.  Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt wanted one party rule with Democrats lording over a European style welfare state, including a new political aristocracy with massive public sector unionism as an eternal foundation.  Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt no longer defend the Republic or the Constitution.  Kennedy and Gephardt would stop at nothing in their unrelenting quest for absolute power.  Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt are the vanguard of malignant political forces who take political advantage and wage very effective unrelenting political war domestically to destroy the Constitution every time the U.S. military is fighting and dying on a foreign battlefield.  Don't ever forget that the Democrats have consistently taken sides against this country every single time since the Vietnam War.  Ted Kennedy and Dick Gephardt worked day and night while they were in politics to destroy liberty, destroy the Republic and destroy the Constitution.  It is time for conservatives to fully study and install the full progressive narrative.

Never forget: "Bush lied, people died."  Domestically, the political attacks during America's war in Iraq were highly effective at advancing the post-American, progressive takeover of the U.S.A.  Bush's carrier landing was a detour from the lessons Churchill taught and the stumble unleashed a daily public lynching for five long years, 24/7/365.

For example, What happened for eight years with Bush?  Just before George W. Bush was sworn into office, on "Meet the Press," Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader of the House of Representatives, was asked by Tim Russert twice if he believed George W. Bush was the legitimately elected president of the United States.  And twice, the leader of the Democrats refused to answer the question.  Everything in progressivism depends on the conservative political class not knowing the progressive narrative and not having the energy to 'relitigate' the narrative. Republicans should never forget the 'Gephardt Incident' or the 'Kennedy Incident' [Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam].  Progressives would not pluck a hair for honor. Kennedy and Gephardt wanted helicopters on the embassy roof in Baghdad. Progressives do not care about truth.  Both Kennedy and Gephardt were fully aware 'The Surge' was working. Progressives are after absolute control and nothing less.  The conservative political class must learn the true progressive narrative!

This is our problem as we fight to rebuild a free republic: "A total lack of understanding of the progressive narrative in the American conservative political class." 

After 12 horrible Bush years, here conservatives finally have answers. Karl Rove's open admission he was clueless about the deeper progressive narrative.  If you want to defeat the progressive narrative, you must know the progressive narrative forwards and backwards.  First, understand and study the full progressive narrative; then seek elected office.  Not the reverse; as Mark Sanford and George Bush have demonstrated to the Republic's great peril.

Karl Rove: "At the time, we in the Bush White House discussed responding but decided NOT to relitigate the past."

Not wise!!!

Why are elected Republicans constantly enticed by poorly understood progressive ideas?  How is the far-left able to repeatedly pull elected Republicans into the progressive swamp?  Why are elected Republicans constantly suckered by these Leftists?  Why do these RINO's repeatedly support or start these foreign wars, never asking "How does this war end with the U.S. Constitution better understood and defended by the vast majority of the American people?"  Why are the Admirals and Generals always tossed under the bus with constitutional republicanism weakened at the same time more power is dangerously concentrated in the OSD and EOP?  Why are we allowing an entire 'evil' bologna to be jammed into our 'body politics' just because these totalitarian progressives and their useful idiots are doing the jamming one slice of boloney at a time?