1) use literally better. some people from the west coast did not increase the chance of war by chanting no more war. the whining and the hyperbole is consistently ridiculous.

2) everyone is criticizing donald trump today, and some criticism of leon panetta does not change anything about that narrative. nobody threw a chance away.

3) joe biden and now tim kaine are going pretty hard in identifying with the troops. you have to be pretty dense to read tonight's dems as not pro-military, and if some protestors for 30 secs earlier in the day overshadow that out for voters, they weren't really recruitable by the dems.

4) the big issue is not whether trump has bad ideas, but in the dems establishing their better ideas:

4a) reading anti-war stances MERELY as a failure to engage the trump echo chamber on a day when he clearly was making a transparent effort to disrupt the star power of the dnc seems like you don't get the big picture. it doesn't have to be in his terms or in reaction to him. these are valid liberal perspectives.

4b) people are going to be looking to obama tonight and even more so hillary tomorrow to establish the defense stance. not a guy who's head to head competition in the rnc slots were multi-level marketers and scott baios.