With time running short, Team McCain wants to cover as many fear bases as possible. Unfortunately for McCain, playing the Be Afraid game has gotten a lot more complicated. A new study published this month suggests swing voter reactions to terror warnings may, in fact, have the opposite impact on McCain than they had on Bush. Read More
The Internet and the Death of Rovian Politics Age has finally become an issue for John McCain. But the problem isn't the candidate's 72 years; it's the antediluvian approach of his campaign. McCain is running a textbook Rovian race: fear-based, smear-based, anything goes. But thanks to YouTube, blogging, and instant fact-checking, it is getting harder and harder to get away with repeating brazen lies without paying a price. Read More
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McCain's temperament -- leading him to bizarre behavior during the week the economic crisis broke -- and his judgment -- leading him to Wasilla -- depressed me into thinking that he'd be a(nother) lousy conservative president. Been there, done that.
Let's say McCain wins and Sarah Palin takes over for Dick Cheney. I think it will be a smooth transition, we won't even miss a beat. I'm here to say, "What's the worst that can happen?"
When it serves him politically to condemn Halliburton's abuses, he takes that view. When he's running for president and seeking to establish his bonafides with the Republican base, a different John McCain emerges.
John McCain, who claims to put "Country First," should re-read The Ugly American. Sarah Palin can watch the movie.
Watching The John McCain Show is like watching a trapped animal gnaw off its own head to escape -- an M.C. Escheresque proposition, but you get the idea.
I simply will not tolerate another stolen vote and election, tantamount to a sentence of another four-to-eight years of Hell, because we haven't been vigilant and done our jobs.
If he wins, Obama will have the global popularity that no American president has had in a great many years. But what sort of challenges will counter the global opportunity that an Obama presidency might afford America?
The first thing I said was, "Is Joe aware he'd get a tax cut under Obama?" -- because, as many of us have read, Joe ACTUALLY makes $40,000 per year, not $250,000.
"I will be voting for the candidate I believe is best: Barack Obama," McCain said. "But I hope that voters will take that endorsement with a grain of salt and consider the source."
New York is not Toledo. The bench is deep. Eight million people living in this city and only one can serve as mayor? New Yorkers need to get to know some of the other good people working in the five boroughs.
The fact that Ms. Todd felt she could get away with telling yet another false story about a black boogie man, suggests that some in this country have not gotten the memo.
It's just wrong that Mike Bloomberg says it was too late to put a voter referendum on the ballot this November when it was the Mayor himself who stalled for nine months putting it on this November ballot.
