Republican candidate Ron Paul appeared CNN this afternoon, with third-party troublemaker Ralph Nader. An excerpt: BLITZER: So is it fair to say — you’re saying you want a third party candidate to win. Would that candidate be the man sitting next to you right here in THE SITUATION ROOM, Ralph Nader? PAUL: No. Ralph is [...]
Sen. John McCain celebrated an anniversary today, without pomp or confetti. As Fox News’s Mosheh Oinounou points out, it has now been four weeks since McCain held a press conference. Back then, on August 13, McCain was down about 4 points to Barack Obama in the Real Clear Politics average. Today he is up about [...]
(H/T to JP, who passed along this news release from ABC.) ABC’S CHARLES GIBSON TO INTERVIEW GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 11 AND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 IN ALASKA Exclusive Interviews to Air Across ABC News’ Broadcasts and Platforms Beginning on Thursday’s “World News” Special “20/20” – “The Interview: Sarah Palin with Charles Gibson” – to [...]
• “McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don’t Lead To Creepy Smile” [The Onion] • “I wish she were a fictional construct. I’m not a fan of hers. But I certainly admit that she’s got a compelling life story.” [Jezebel] • “They were going with the winner. They didn’t care what the loser said. [...]
His response to the fake fight of the day:
Dickerson’s take: All campaigns must change in order to handle the arrival of a vice-presidential candidate. To accommodate Sarah Palin, John McCain’s Straight Talk Express has now installed a fainting couch. It’s not for the vice-presidential candidate—she’s plenty tough—but for McCain aides who are rapidly perfecting the act of expiring on the cushions on her [...]
I’m on quasi-vacation this week — posting from lovely Anna Maria Island — and have been trying to make a dent in my non-work reading list. But it’s a bit of a busman’s holiday; I’ve been reading Tom Perrotta’s excellent third fifth novel, “The Abstinence Teacher,” which turns out, not surprisingly, to have a lot [...]
A different category of dumb charge. This one very much intentionally ginned up by the McCain camp, and the Obama camp is justified in being outraged over its implication that Obama is some kind of deviancy advocate. It was just as dumb and just as calculated when the Romney people were pushing it during the [...]
I don’t think Obama meant anything crude with the phrase. And I didn’t think the McCain campaign meant to portray Obama as the anti-Christ, either. Neither of these campaigns are quite as together as critics would like to believe. UPDATE: I should note that one major difference between the two equally dumb charges is that [...]
Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists–including me–for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house. Now he is responsible for one of the sleaziest ads I’ve ever seen in presidential politics, so [...]
