David Cameron losing his election?

Is David Cameron losing the election that seems his for the taking? His criticism of Israel today sets him at outright odds with his party. More to the point, it puts him in the wrong over one of the most important issues of the day. He relies on truthiness, tellingly, speaking of how the photos at Qana made it clear because of how one felt on viewing them. Well that's no guide, David. And even if it were, and sad feelings in your tummy are to become the basis of Conservative policy in the UK, many of those photos appear to have been faked. You would hope that someone as young and cool as Cameron claims to be would know about the blogosphere by now and at least have some junior intern watching out for its discoveries.

My point is, David Cameron used the 5th anniversary of 9/11 to criticise American foreign policy and is now following it up with an attack on Israel. Both of these will indeed play well, as I'm sure his poll-monkeys have told him. But they will lose him the party. More importantly, he is playing politics with the central issues of our time. This war is the calling of our generation, as President Bush said last Monday. You can't walk away, or score points by siding against it when it is unpopular. That's not leadership. Tony Blair, slave to focus groups on so much else, saw after 9/11 that he had to make a stand and convince the country of his case. It cost him a great deal. But that is leadership. The irony is that Gordon Brown is pretty sound on foreign policy and maybe not so reforming at home (in a socialist direction) as people once thought. So has Cameron started conceding defeat to Gordon by chasing anti-American, anti-semitic votes at the expense of his core supporters and his own good sense? If this is his clause 4, he can keep the rump party he has left. Who wants to provoke outrage and seem touchy-feely if you're on the wrong side at the end of it?