It is purely an exercise of the evidence of things not seen , the substance of that which is not known to say, "I submit that the Democratic leadership of Carter, Mondale and Dukakis would not have won the Cold War, and I haven't run into any evidence yet to convince me otherwise."

And pray tell, what would that evidence be? Great example of engineering non-think. Present a null hypothesis reduced to the absurd and offer that as some sort of a thesis. Stick to the numbers dude, or maybe Cracker Jacks. That way you will have something to crunch and you can avoid such an idiotic statement.

Or, perhaps you actually think it is only Republican leadership that creates the tides of history? Oh, my. How did this country get along before Lincoln? How did we survive Roosevelt?

Publius