More like this, please:
A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a sharp rebuke to John McCain’s aides who said the Democrat had a naive, Sept. 10 mind-set toward terrorism.
“These are the same guys who helped to engineer the distraction of the […]

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In a much-remarked upon piece, USA Today notes that the country is in one of its most sour moods in decades, a funk that is remarkable both for its depth as well as its duration:
In all, 72% of those surveyed in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Oct. 12-14 say they are dissatisfied with how things […]

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And wouldn’t you know, Hillary came up as my “favorite”

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…is “none of the above.”

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Over at The Corner, the National Review’s group blog, Kathryn Jean Lopez thinks Bill Bennett’s suggestion to the GOP 2008 candidates is just ducky:
Every candidate for the GOP nomination needs to stand up right now. In fact, I’d urge them to hold a joint press conference and stand up and say a) they support the […]

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Says Iraq won’t be a big issue in ‘08 elections. Suuuuure….

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An independent Colin Powell-Michael Bloomberg ticket might fill that centrist, Mr. Fix-It void. It’s not gonna happen, says Ross Douthat - but if it did, they just might win.

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Looks like manly-man Fred Thompson, Reaganesque GOP heartthrob, was a mole for the Nixon White House during Watergate.

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The American Prospect on the GOP man-crush primary:
How do you decide who gets your vote in the presidential elections? Is it determined by the candidates’ physical appearance, by the charisma they radiate or by the emotional strings they manage to tug deep inside you, conjuring childhood yearnings for security and a night-light after dark?
That’s pretty […]

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You knew Fred Thompson’s marital deal was going to be campaign fodder - because really, if he were of the “Democrat Party” Fox News would have been yapping about his “trophy wife” long ago. And, what does that say about character - or his “Hollywood values?”
But now Thompson’s first wife has gone on record supporting […]

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Look, I realize there’s a belief - or a hope - out there amongst conservatives that reports of their demise are greatly exaggerated. Yes, the Leader’s poll numbers are mired in Carter terroritory; yes, Iraq is a complete mess, and there appears to be no way out; sure, the populist Limbaugh wing of the party […]

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I like it, he’d run as a centrist and has already unleashed some appropriately blistering criticism of the current crop of presidential candidates. This race is going to be more interesting than anyone thought…

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Juan Cole after watching last night’s debate:
These guys got away with these hawkish fantasies because they bamboozled the poor evangelicals into believing they would support public morality, and bamboozled poor conservatives into thinking they would uphold small government. Instead, they are hitching their wagons to a multi-trillion dollar quagmire abroad and don’t give a rat’s […]

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Interesting. The New Republic (registration required) suggests the future of the Republican Party is Rudy Giuliani - specifically because “cultural conservatives” are fading, and are being tossed overboard by a GOP elite that always viewed the issues of abortion and gay marriage as “distasteful but necessary tools to win elections, easily disposable once they no […]

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You know that either you’ve gone ’round the bend, or your country has, when Pat Buchanan starts making a lot of sense.
I actually spent my vacation last year reading Buchanan’s “Where the Right Went Wrong.” Attracted by the title, of course. Yet I have to say that while Buchanan did his usual thing - invoking […]

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Good. You remember how the wingers got their knickers in a collective twist when first John Edwards, then Obama and Clinton pulled out of a previously scheduled debate on Fox because - obviously - Fox News is so overtly biased that there is no way the Democratic candidates would get anything remotely resembling a “fair and […]

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After months of conflicting signals on abortion, Rudolph W. Giuliani is planning to offer a forthright affirmation of his support for abortion rights in public forums, television appearances and interviews in the coming days, despite the potential for bad consequences among some conservative voters already wary of his views, aides said yesterday.
-New York Times, May […]

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