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Time Magazine’s Karen Tumulty was dispatched to cover John McCain’s ground game in Virginia, and she ended up visiting the campaign’s Gainsville office with Del. Jeff Frederick. Tumulty describes in Time magazine the scene that she witnessed: With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of …
Continue reading “Frederick, speaking for McCain’s volunteer base.”
How long until a McCain/Palin audience lynches Obama in effigy?
Just a quick thought: Nobody “won” the presidential debate tonight. It wasn’t the kind of a debate that anybody could win, in that it wasn’t game-like. Both were strong speakers. Personally I think that Barack Obama did a better job in a few regards, but I think it’s disingenuous for anybody to claim that there …
I’m not the only one who thinks that John McCain has to dump Sarah Palin from the ticket to have any chance of winning: conservative pundit Kathleen Parker calls on Palin to drop out in the National Review: Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, …
I thought Jackson was stretching things with his comparison of John McCain’s stunt to Super-Grover, but after watching this video clip, I think it’s pretty hilariously apt.
This bullshit* from the McCain campaign about John McCain riding into the Senate and saving the day is kind of stunning. It’s somewhere between hilarious and frightening—frightening insofar as anybody actually believes that McCain is some kind of a superhero who will swoope to the rescue of the helpless Congress, saving the planet from the …
Continue reading “Super McCain to the res—. D’oh. Too late.”
I maintain that Sarah Palin was a terrible, terrible pick for VP. The three interviews that she’s dared participate in since her nomination have shown her as a naif, looking every bit the deer in the headlights, utterly unqualified to run a company, to say nothing of the country. Her scandals keep getting deeper and …
John McCain has stirred up a shitstorm of an international incident by declaring that he wouldn’t meet with the Spanish prime minister, for the same reasons that he wouldn’t meet with leaders of rogue states. If your Spanish isn’t so hot, here’s an auto-translated version, and Josh Marshall’s explanation. It appears that a confused McCain …
Continue reading “McCain’s confusion sparks an international incident.”
We’re starting to see the wheels come off of the Straight Talk Express. I long admired McCain as the sort of guy with whom I’d agree about little, but respect for his honesty and frankness. But gradually, over the last couple of years, I saw him turn his back on his beliefs without explanation (and …
Continue reading “Richard Cohen on McCain’s tactic of lying.”
Frank Rich provided an astute analysis of the presidential race in Saturday’s Times that’s well worth reading. He looks specifically at Palin’s influence on the Republican ticket, and what her selection says about McCain and the party. Palin is dangerously like President Bush: an eager, pliant naif who, if elected, will do as told by …