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What the Right Has Wrought
Opinionator — ... — over John McCain and Sarah Palin. Charles Krauthammer shrugs his shoulders. “ Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain ,” he writes. “I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.” E.J. Dionne, however, thinks the phenomenon is more significant than mere bandwagon-jumping. “These conservatives deserve credit for acknowledging how ill-suited ...

Charlie, Charlie, Quite Contrary
Daily Pundit — Charles Krauthammer - McCain for President - washingtonpost.com Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. What the hell is contrarian about that? A vote for McCain is a vote for the GOP status quo, that has brought ...

Krauthammer vents, Weld backs Obama
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings Does anyone care that Charlie Krauthammer will be voting for McCain? Oh, no, he's not one of those "wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years," as if that's the only reason so many of them are lining up behind Obama, he's the courageous, trend-bucking conservative who sees things as they really are: it's Obama who's gone negative, not McCain, and, yes, it's ...

Lest We Forget: The Stakes are Life and Death
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory? - Charles Krauthammer - McCain for President - washingtonpost.com ...

Krauthammer Vents, Weld Backs Obama
The Moderate Voice — Does anyone care that Charles Krauthammer will be voting for McCain? Oh, no, he’s not one of those “wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years,” as if that’s the only reason so many of them are lining up behind Obama, he’s the courageous, trend-bucking conservative who sees things as they really are: it’s Obama who’s gone negative, not McCain, and, yes, it’s McCain who is “the most prepared, most knowledgeable, ...

“I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings”
Flopping Aces — ... standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.” And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq. McCain’s critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What’s astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers. Read more Ignore the polls. They are erratic. Don’t ignore the mainstream media. ...

Krauthammer Refuses to Jump Ship:
The Volokh Conspiracy — No one can accuse Charles Krauthammer of not calling it the way he sees it. Today he refused to join fellow conservative and/or Republican opinionators in abandoning the McCain candidacy. His column, McCain for President starts this way: Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. I stand athwart ...

The last shoe drops
The Reality-Based Community — ... put out word that he voted for Barack Obama. Colin Powell, Scott McClellan, Christopher Buckley, Christopher Hitchens, Ken Adelman, William Milliken, William Weld, Lincoln Chafee, Jim Leach, Wayne Gilchrist, Arne Carlson, Susan Eisenhower, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, CC Goldwater (Barry's grand-daughter): all more or less understandable. But Charles Fried? Reagan's Solicitor General? This is as surprising as Doug Kmiec. How's that Palin pick looking now, Senator? Well, you'll always have Krauthammer . Oh, and Joe Lieberman.

Why I'm Voting for McCain for President
The New Editor — Charles Krauthammer explains why.

Quote of the Day (So Far!)
Weekly Standard Blog — ... security choice in this election is no contest. The domestic policy choice is more equivocal because it is ideological. McCain is the quintessential center-right candidate. Yet the quintessential center-right country is poised to reject him. The hunger for anti-Republican catharsis and the blinding promise of Obamian hope are simply too strong. The reckoning comes in the morning. Read the whole thing, as they say. Part one of Krauthammer's case for McCain is here.

Will Krauthammer attack McCain for referring to Khamenei as ‘Supreme Leader?’
Think Progress — ... with which the American president confers this honorific on a clerical dictator,” wrote Krauthammer. But on Fox News later in the day, one of Krauthammer’s most admired politicians also referred to Khamenei as “Supreme Leader.” “There may be those indications since the Supreme Leader said that they were not going to tolerate further demonstrations in the street,” said Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). Watch it: ...