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Questioning Their Motives
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... Victor Davis Hanson has a piece out today that I suspect will be the first of many of its kind. Intermixed with some excellent points about the perception of McCain campaign negativity, the politics of race, and scandalmongering, he aims this cheap shot at Republicans who have expressed dismay at McCain or even endorsed his opponent. Second, with Obama now with an 6-8 point lead, some in the DC/NY corridor these last three weeks figure it’s time now to jump or at least sort of jump, since the train they think is leaving the station and there might be still be some space at the ...

VDH: Just As Dense As He Usually Is
Daily Pundit — RealClearPolitics - Articles - Jumping Ship… This is becoming a very strange campaign. Only to you, Victor. To the rest of us, this was entirely expected. On CNN last evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone-and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops. McCain lost his nobility ...

Links for 2008-10-13 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... is even turning to the Kremlin to prevent bankruptcy after it became the first country to succumb to the global financial meltdown in a matter of days last week. "No Western country has crashed in peacetime as quickly and as badly," says Jon Danielsson, an associate professor of finance at the London School of Economics. "This shows the degree of problems facing the global financial systems and how governments must do all they can to stabilize them." Jumping Ship... Real Clear Politics - Victor Davis Hanson This is becoming a very strange ...

links for 2008-10-14
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: barack_obama mccain) Jumping Ship… Real Clear Politics - Victor Davis Hanson This is becoming a very strange campaign. On CNN last evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the ...

The Engine of Mayhem
The Hollywood Liberal — ... Jumping Ship… This is becoming a very strange campaign. On CNN last evening both David Gergen and Ed Rollins echoed the current mantra that the “old” noble McCain is gone-and a “new” nastier one has emerged, largely because of his attacks on Ayers, perhaps his planned future ads on Wright, and a few unhinged people shouting at his campaign stops. Recently Christopher Buckley endorsed Obama, likewise lamenting the loss of the old noble McCain. New York Times columnist David Brooks dubbed Palin a “cancer,” and he suggested that Obama’s instant recall of Niehbuhr sent a ...