George W. Bush’s old ad man, Mark McKinnon was once at the center of the John McCain brain trust, but he walked away months ago because he knew the campaign would have to “disqualify Obama,” and he didn’t want to do that. Like many Republicans, he has chosen now to weigh in on what went [...]

According to Ben Smith, the skirmish  between McCain’s advisers and their running mate that Karen noted below now seems to be escalating into a shooting war.  I’ve never seen that before.

Andrew Sullivan has a really insightful essay in the latest Atlantic on the challenges and the rewards of blogging. I was especially struck by this passage: To blog is therefore to let go of your writing in a way, to hold it at arm’s length, open it to scrutiny, allow it to float in the [...]

To Karen’s suggestion that Sarah Palin might be hacking her own path across the wilderness, I direct readers to this note sent to Marc Ambinder from Randy Scheunemann, regarding Palin’s mavericky maverickiness: Just read your post.  This is on the record.  This is cleared by HQ.  It is a fact that Barack Obama was palling [...]

Here’s a story I wrote for tomorrow’s Washington Post Outlook section about the AP and how things are changing for them and thus the journalism world.

Ben  Smith reports rising tension between Sarah Palin and her handlers: Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin [...]