How "right" can you go?

In the course of gloating about the new Gallup poll showing that the President's approval rating has risen to 42%, the Weekly Standards' Daniel McKivergan puts his political scientist hat on and comes up with the following:

As I have noted before, if Democrats were hitting Republicans from the right on national security, the GOP would be in far deeper trouble.

So the American public wants us to commit 500,000 more troops to Iraq, stay there indefinitely, bomb Iran, and pretty much make a mess out of the Middle East? Last time I checked, this wasn't exactly the case.