Silver rebuts Brooks' Iraq analogy

Nate Silver at 538 rebuts David Brooks' Iraq analogy which I re-posted yesterday. Basically, Silver's point is that in both the Iraq War and healthcare debates, one side was able to successfully rally public opinion with lies and distortions. Rather than simply give up, Democrats need to stay the course but make their case more clearly. And they shouldn't abandon their principles and their 2008 electoral mandate because the GOP has decided to put lies about "death panels" ahead of the public good.