It’s a strange day when you are at a panel for the Republican National Convention where the subject is about National Defense and the U.S. approach to global trade, and a high-ranking Democrat shows up to explain how the next Republican administration will likely handle such matters. Though the panel at The University of Minnesota’s Hubert M. Humphrey’s Institute for Public Affairs had a pretty impressive list of people, including Ambassador Robert Portman, Ambassador Richard Williamson, and no less than Robert C. (Bud) McFarlane, the man behind Star Wars, it was the Joe Lieberman show.