I feel sorry for her.
The McCain camp made a hasty, cynical choice when they found that Lieberman wasn't acceptable to Talk Radio and the far right, and wouldn't budge.
She wasn't properly vetted. She's authentic, genuine, but clearly over her head. She's not prepared to be VP.
Sarah Palin: Less curious than George.

Posted at October 2, 2008 7:16 AM in response to Palin On Supreme Court Cases: ???

Calm down. Bill Clinton wanted his wife to win, gave it his all, and now we expect him to forget everything and fall madly in love with Obama?
Clinton is coming around. And he gives superb advice: Specifically, stop beating up on Palin. It feels good, but go after the votes you need, stop campaigning to the choir.
The Clintons should be cut some slack. Also, McCain, Bush, and the Clintons are all political cronies, Washington insiders, consummate wheeler-dealers who think Obama hasn't earned a seat at their table.
Obama's message of change is as threatening to the Clinton political machine as it is to the Bush/McCain machine.
Follow Clinton's advice, put Biden out front, have him share his story with the people who are undecided, who are uncomfortable with Obama. Biden can make them comfortable.

Posted at September 29, 2008 7:27 AM in response to Breaking! Bill Clinton Officially Campaigning for McCain!!!

McCain lost this one. He came across as Col. Nathan Jessep - "You can't handle the truth!" - a blustering martinet who doesn't listen, who doesn't collaborate or compromise...a man who gives orders or takes them, who sees the world in black and white.
Time to show these schoolyard bullies the exit. We live in a world that demands leadership and statesmanship, not the cranky worldview of a muzzle-loader. What is it with these short white males who think they know everything but can't make coffee?
Time for a Change.

Posted at September 27, 2008 6:19 PM in response to McPain Is Ailin'

Sayonora, Sununu.
Another victim of the Obama Effect.
A lot of Republicans leaving Washington in the last few months, Tom Reynolds being the latest.
Can we get some coverage of the embezzlement scandal at the NRCC that involves...
RUN THE WRIGHT VIDEO, SEAN!!!

Posted at March 21, 2008 9:15 AM in response to Rasmussen: GOP Senator Sununu Behind Dem Shaheen By Eight Points

Someone should ask Brent Wilkes, a Bush Pioneer, if there are other Pioneers who he practiced "transactional lobbying" with. And what is his relationship with Mercer Reynolds, III, the creator of the Bush Pioneers, the top money wrangler for Bush '04, and now the top money wrangler for McCain '08?

Posted at February 24, 2008 3:45 PM in response to Wilkes Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Bribing Cunningham

Here we go again, the liberal, drive-by media planting evidence to take down another Great American. Hannity and Limbaugh must be outraged.
Most of Renzi's campaign contributions came from ManTech, the defense contractor that employed his father.
Renzi's recently deceased father was a powerful defense contractor and friend of Brent Wilkes, the Bush Pioneer and defense contractor (translation: war profiteer) who was sentenced to 12 years in prison this week: He is the mastermind behind the largest Congressional bribery scandal in history - the Duke Cunningham case. Wilkes showered Cunningham with fancy travel, expensive meals, cash bribes and prostitutes.
Each Bush Pioneer was "asked" to "donate" a minimum of $100,000 to the Bush '04 campaign.
Rick Renzi and Brent Wilkes are both friends of Mercer Reynolds, III, the top money wrangler for Bush '04 who was appointed last week as the top money wrangler for McCain '08.
Washington is where the corrupting power of money reigns supreme.
(And check out the terrific piece in the new "Harper's" by Ken Silverstein, "Beltway Bacchanal" on lobbying corruption.)
Time for a Change...and Dobson was right about McCain.

Posted at February 24, 2008 11:51 AM in response to Breaking: GOP Rep Renzi Indicted

Franken hasn't joined a team, he's on the fence when it comes to Obama and Clinton.
He was pro-war until it all fell apart, but he was more in Clinton's camp at the start.
He is unbelievably arrogant, much more of a limousine liberal than a true progressive.
Judging from his radio broadcasts, he is hyper-partisan, much happier on the attack than working in a collaborative manner.
In sum, he's more of the same: Another Minnesota DFL pol that is more about the machine than real change.
Bush-haters love him, but when push comes to shove, Minnesotans will stay with Coleman...if Franken is the other choice.

Posted at February 19, 2008 1:07 PM in response to Rasmussen: Al Franken Takes Small Lead Against Norm Coleman

And weighing in from hell is Lee Atwater, with a clever yet ornery endorsement of Hillary. But we don't have to pass along any thinking from that li'l devil, that's what we have James Carville for.

Posted at February 18, 2008 3:57 PM in response to Molly Ivins endorses from heaven*

McCain is just like my older brother. He nods along as you talk, waiting for you to finish so he can let you know he hasn't heard a word you said - and then he tells you like it is. Whatever his is, is.
Clinton, I don't know, she's okay, just a bit creepy and phoney. I think I'd be struck by her confidence, and equally struck by her lack of humility.
Obama, he's cool, easy to like, smart, funny, I think I'd find him a bit intimidating, but that's okay. He's cool.

Posted at February 16, 2008 12:25 PM in response to Say you're sitting at a bar and in walks John, Hillary, and Barack!

Bill Clinton on Health Care, now that's rich.
Hillary was in Cincinnati yesterday eating cheese coneys at Skyline Chili, and Bill is hitting the barbecue hard in Texas. Now that the Clintons are back to southern-fried politics, they're campaigning like Mr. and Mrs. Willie Stark, eating their way into the hearts of the common man. To call them chameleons doesn't do the Clintons' shape-shifting abilities justice.
"Bill Clinton on Health Care", that's like hearing "Bill Clinton on Abstinence".
Stop talking the wonk, start walking the talk.

Posted at February 16, 2008 12:19 PM in response to Bill: Obama Would "Deny Us Universal Health Care"