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Mitt Romney in Iowa this past weekend:

"I mean, in one week [Obama] went from saying he's going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he's going to bomb our allies," Romney said. "He's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week."

But who remembers Dr. Strangelove anymore? If anything, the name and character are more closely linked with Henry Kissinger than with Stanley Kubrick or Peter Sellars. And Jane Fonda? Have the Republicans become so ... idea-bankrupt that they're reaching back to the 1970s for iconic imagery? What's next -- calling John Edwards "Meathead?"

What that whole episode emphasizes is how old the Republican base has become. They're living in the past. The future belongs to today's young people and they aren't energized by imagery -- and issues -- from the 60s and 70s.
The last time they saw Jane Fonda was on The Colbert Report and she handled Stephen pretty well. And, more seriously, we now have full trade relations with Vietnam, right?

Lastly, how many people really believe that Pakistan and Musharref are really acting in our best interest anyway? If they're sheltering Osama bin Laden (for whatever reason), wouldn't you want to do whatever it took to catch the bastard -- whether or not that offended our "ally?"