At this point I really wonder: what's in it for McCain? Why does he want to be president? Those who have followed him for years don't recognize his agenda, his tactics, his positions (e.g., the great populist regulator!). How could a man of seemingly deep conviction morph into this caricature? His campaign is empty, with no spiritual or intellectual core; its tactics have devolved into a series of crass surprises and Hail Mary passes.
Sarah Palin now asserts that she reads <The Economist, at least to Fox News Channel. Well, doggone it, if she does peruse the Oct. 4 issue, she'll find a 20-page report on the presidential election.
This bailout is as if someone blew up a meth lab and insisted he collect on his homeowners policy.
Surrounded and programmed by the lobbyists he once despised, the man who once effortlessly straddled the aisle and spoke from the heart now carefully hews to a prompter-read, soulless far-right agenda.
I'll put on my Hollywood hat just for a moment so I can lead a chorus of righteous laughter at the colossal failure of the persecuted Hollywood conservatives behind An American Carol.
Praising the president for merely attempting to clean up the mess he helped make is one thing, but comparing him to Roosevelt is quite another.
Governor, you have a "close association" with a known former member of a radical, right-wing, well-armed and well-funded political party whose founder damned the United States as virulently as Reverend Wright did.
McCain openly boasted about his deep collaboration with one of the most prominent of Vietnam-era student radicals, David Ifshin, who denounced America on Radio Hanoi as McCain sat locked up as a POW.
I actually felt sorry for the organizers for a minute, before I snapped myself out of it. A head count yielded about 250-300 people. Clearly they had been hoping for more.
The raw anger displayed by McCain is so over the top that he cannot seriously be targeting it at anyone but himself, and perhaps the Republican Party he has grown to hate.
The GOP's unprincipled electioneering is likely to become especially ugly in the Jewish community. We are certain to hear Joe Lieberman shamelessly trying to scare elderly Jewish retirees to vote Republican.
Sarah Palin may have given a momentary boost to her ticket, but she threatens to be a drag on her party's future.
McCain wants us to talk solely about whether the surge of US troops last year has been successful. But a hole was just blown in that argument -- and blood is rushing through.
