The only reason

Krauthammer, on how the Lamont victory will destroy America the Democrats:

Apart from the Carter success of 1976 -- an idiosyncratic post-Watergate accident -- the "blame America first" Democrats were not even competitive on foreign policy for the rest of the Cold War. It was not until the very disappearance of the Soviet Union that the American citizenry would once again trust a Democrat with the White House.

Yeah, that had to be it. Couldn't have been voters' short-term interest in tax breaks, huge geographic shifts in population into the south, racist reaction to civil rights legislation bringing party realignment, or anything else. Nope, voters decide on foreign policy alone. Also, everybody frickin' loved Viet Nam.