Frankly, the thing I’ll miss the most about Fred Thompson’s campaign when it’s over will be almost endless pun opportunities. It’s the one area of his political resume where he can claim the same status as “Bush.”
But will his campaign end in the White House? Or even at the Republican National Convention? His campaign has characterized …
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It’s not news that the 2008 presidential campaign represents a classic reversal of fortune for the two political parties: The Democrats are running an orderly Republican-style campaign with an establishment front-runner opposed by responsible challengers who tend to live by Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment–rarely and reluctantly and …
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In which the serious business of the world is set aside for a week…and a sporting heartbreak is recounted.
The New Mexico Senator’s surprise announcement that he will retire from the seat he has held since 1972 puts the state in play next year, and sets off a frenzy of speculation that Governor Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s most popular pol, will decide to abandon his presidential campaign in favor of running for the Senate seat. His campaign …
The thing is, Rush hasn’t tried to “correct it,” he’s just denied it, released edited transcripts, and generally dodged accountability. He hasn’t even admitted he “misspoke”:
As I said, I don’t think it was appropriate to say that, but really, to demand apologies and whatnot? I can’t tell you the number of times I have misspoken,
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As evidenced by my post below, the press’ acquiescence to the Hillary-is-inevitable narrative bugs the heck out of me. Not because I have any particular animus toward Hillary, but because it’s lazy and condescending to the people who, you know, actually vote. Greg Sargent shares my annoyance and has a smart take on the NYT’s money …
An interested party writes:
In 24 hours, Fred Thompson…
…got the party that controlled the Senate during Roberts’ confirmation (which he shepherded) wrong.
…called Russia the Soviet Union
…flipflopped on ethanol
But he smells terrific.
Just in time for that whole zeitgeist-turning-against her thing:
For the first time, Clinton (N.Y.) is drawing support from a majority of Democrats — and has opened up a lead of 33 percentage points over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.). Her popularity, the poll suggests, is being driven by her strength on key issues and a growing perception
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according to Bartle Bull in the Wall Street Journal. This is a very strange piece. Yes, the Sunni insurgency has been weakened and casualties are down–in part, because of the ethnic cleansing of Baghdad–but Bull seems to think that Muqtada Sadr is a happy camper, part of the Maliki government:
Today, controlling five major ministries
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This Vote Vets ad in response to Rush is terrific.
I know Joe and Ana are very excited about Barack Obama’s speech today, in which, among other things, he called for eliminating nuclear weapons in the world. And I agree that Senator Obama deserves credit for embracing a national security initiative that is both bold and sensible at the same time, not to mention bi-partisan. But it is …
Andrew Ferguson serves up a wonderfully subversive review of Alan Greenspan’s memoir in the new issue of The Weekly Standard. You don’t have to agree with Ferguson to enjoy his iconoclastic wit, which in this case is aimed at both Greenspan and Ayn Rand. My favorite passage:
This was in the late 1950s. By then, Rand had published her
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