An Unintended Gift to the GOP

When the Supreme Court ruled this week in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al that the Bush administration's proposed military tribunals for foreign terror suspects were illegal, it may have handed the GOP a political gift.

While the ruling makes it more difficult for the United States to fight the war on terror, it may well also have the effect of unifying conservatives and making republican get out the vote efforts more effective.

I'm fully confident that while democrats and the media celebrate the court ruling, they are secretly terrified of the backlash.