BUSH TALKS PEACE
Mickey Kaus applauds Peggy Noonan for (he implies) triggering Bush to suddenly talk about being the "peace president."  Andrew Sullivan, on the other hand, worries that Bush is becoming incoherent.  Here is Sullivan's post:

THE WAR, OR, ER, PEACE PRESIDENT: Bush seems to be changing his tune a little on the campaign trail:

Mr. Bush noted: "The enemy declared war on us. Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president. The next four years will be peaceful years." He repeated the words "peace" or "peaceful" many times, as he has done increasingly in his recent appearances.

How does he know? What if Iran gets a nuke? What if there's another major terror attack? The president has obviously been worrying about his hard-edged image with women. But he needs to avoid lapsing into incoherence.

Sullivan has a point, but I find this rhetorical turn of events welcome, because it echoes the Reagan pattern.  I should mention that Sullivan is rather hawkish on Iran: