If John Kerry is to be smeared, I really wish that Republicans would do better than trying make him out to be DPRK's bosom buddy.

I thought everyone was busy painting Kim Jong Il as a madman, now when he says something that Republicans want to use to their electoral advantage, he suspiciously starts making sense?

I thought the point Republicans were trying to make when DPRK continued its nuclear program despite promises to President Clinton not to proved that we couldn't trust what they had to say... and now they're trustworthy all of a sudden?

And I thought McCarthyism was dead.

Get a life, guys.

And furthermore, as press accounts make clear, the rationale North Korea has is a "better the devil you don't know" mentality. They would've had such a mentality if this were 2000 and Bush was the unknown quantity. To use that to partisan political ends is ridiculous.

But if they're going to go there, I suppose it opens up the "Bush and the Saudi Royal Family" angle, and in that one, the devil is quite known, so to speak.

UPDATE: And for those of you who try the sister-line to "DPRK loves Kerry!", that being "Kerry loves Yasser Arafat!", please go read Jesse.