Ohh Thanks :)

First, Mr. Kristol somehow convinces John McCain that selecting Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate is a good idea (and “mavericky”). And one can assume that Mr. Kristol promised John McCain that she would receive favorable national press coverage in The New York Times. At the same time, Mr. Kristol advises the McCain campaign to take off the gloves and portray Barack Obama as a unpatriotic scary black man with connections to terrorists.

But then, when when it’s realized that the American people perceive both of these tactics as stunts (and the selection of Palin as reckless) and John McCain’s poll numbers get worse and worse, Mr. Kristol stands up and claims that negative campaigning and the competence of McCain’s staff are the cause of McCain’s failure to gain ground in the election – an obvious attempt to pre-empt the notion that McCain’s problems are directly related to Palin.

And the McCain campaign, now stuck with Palin because of Mr. Kristol’s efforts to fool John McCain into thinking that selecting her was wise, is vocally trashing Mr. Kristol.

I’m sorry, but this is better than the first season of Desperate Housewives. It’s sublime.

I was one of those Hillary supporters who was worried that Obama was going to be ‘weak’ in the face of the GOP attack machine and that Hillary was better prepared for it.

On the other hand I was worried that the same old crap likely to get thrown at Hillary was just going turn everyone off. but then on the other other hand I thought Hillary would be able to really expose the same old attacks and destroy them once and for all whilst I feared the attacks on Obama would be new and thus more “interesting”.

Obama himself was very good during the battles with Hillary, but I wasn’t impressed with Obama’s campaign team countering the stuff Hillary’s crew were throwing out. (I also thought Hillary’s team was crappy, just the same old negative sh#t as as any other politician’s team ends up doing).

When Obama got the nomination I thought it quite deserved and a good choice (not just an ‘acceptable’ one).

Since the battle has been engaged however I’ve been delighted with Obama AND his campaign team.McCain is certainly a terrible campaigner but that dosen;t mean Obama had it easy in any way ( how do you win an argument with someone so erratic?).

Obama has been brilliant (by just being himself it seems) and his campaign team has been superb—sharp and very well organized and disciplined. His ‘ground game’–offices volunteers etc–is also really on the ball.

Despite the national problems (or indeed in part because of them) Obama could very well prove to be one of the very best presidents ever.

This will hopefully complete the implosion of the failed neo-con takeover of the republican party. I would welcome, and hope for, a republican party that rises from the ashes with a temperate, reasonable, peaceful rebranding that focuses on true ideological government issues, instead of the religious, intrusive, combative principles they’ve been ramming down our throats lately.

Heckuva job Rick! I guess it’s a lot easier to successfully lobby Congress for a failed mortgage corporation (Freddie Mac) than it is to lobby the American people on behalf of a flawed candidate!

So even when they smear each other, they lie.

Well yes, it’s like political Tourette’s syndrome.

Now that is about the best example of projection I have ever seen. What planet does this guy live on. Even people who visit redstate must have been scratching their heads and wondering what debate this guy was watching.

Davis actually thinks that the McCain campaign is “doing well”. Wow, he’s definitely gone off the cliff.

But he is correct that John McCain doesn’t need a campaign to “do what he does so well”, which is being a mean, nasty and angry individual.

I Just Don’t Get any of the insta polls, which seem to give it to Obama.

Heh.

Phil Gramm is trying to borrow money from Lehmans, but is considered a bad credit risk.

In other news, cardiologists went in to check Cheney’s heart, but found nothing.

To quote the film American Beauty: “Never underestimate the power of denial”.

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TP: In fact, Kristol has run a political campaign. In 1988, he ran the unsuccessful Senate campaign of Alan Keyes in Maryland.

So even when they smear each other, they lie.

“Tonight we finally saw what so many of us have been waiting for. John McCain mopped the floor with Barack Obama. Throughout the night, Barack Obama looked distant, like he did not want to be there, like he was annoyed. He really looked annoyed all night. McCain on the other hand looked like the comeback kid — the guy who knew he had to do well. And he did.”

I frequently reach this same conclusion about Kristol’s commentary.