thenextright.com - 8/22/2008
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By this time tomorrow, we should know. So it's time to hazard some final predictions.
I think BBK (BayhBidenKaine) is a smokescreen. They are overexposed. Bayh is a neocon robot to the base, acceptable in 2000 but not now. It is comical that Joe "Get off my grass. Now" is even being considered. Ditto for Tim Kaine. They are all underwhelming. We would have a field day with any of ...
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MORNING READ John McCain's counterattack on Barack Obama in the debate over his multiple houses has conservative bloggers pleased. And with both candidates ready to announce running mates, bloggers on both sides contemplate two very familiar possibilities, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). Obama's criticism of McCain for not knowing how many houses he has and for his ties to Ralph Reed, the former business partner to Jack Abramoff, has opened the door to McCain's new attack on the Democrat for his connections to convicted felon Tony Rezko, who sold Obama property, writes Townhall's Carol Platt Liebau . ...
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