Was this election a good one to lose?

[mdlbear]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-1343295,00.html

FOR THOSE of us who were disappointed, and even horrified, by George W. Bush's return to power there was one consolation in yesterday's result. On the contrary, the previously unmentionable hope for the supporters of liberal politics in America, is that Senator Kerry has done the Democratic Party a favour of immense, historic proportions by losing to Mr Bush. In military history, it is a commonplace that there are certain battles worth losing rather than winning -- and if ever this were true in politics, then the 2004 US election would be a case in point.

(link from andyheninger)