[...]But here's a much more pertinent question than whether Mr. Bush lied: How loopy are the Democrats? One reason why the president is all but certain to win re-election is the descent into madness of his opponents. They have let post-impeachment, post-chad-dangling bitterness unhinge them to the point where, given a choice between investigating the intelligence lapses that led to September 11 and the intelligence lapses that led to a victorious war in Iraq, they stampede for the latter. Iraq was a brilliant campaign fought with minimal casualties, September 11 was a humiliating failure by government to fulfill its primary role of national defense. But Democrats who complained that Mr. Bush was too slow to act on doubtful intelligence concerning September 11 now profess to be horrified that he was too quick to act on doubtful intelligence concerning Iraq. This is not a serious party.[...]