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McCain the Gadfly
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 [image] McCain the Gadfly [ Rich Lowry ] Here's my column today. I should note that Patrick Ruffini made this same basic point before I did in a very thoughtful post here . (N.B. I don't think the race is over. McCain still has some chance to pull this thing out, and given the circumstances he has to work with, I think his "closing argument" is pretty much on the mark.) 10/28 12:06 PM
It's the candidate, stupid
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
Rich Lowry looks at the plight of McCain from 10,000 up and to the right:
This is the McCain paradox: No other Republican candidate had a character and background — as a courageously independent spirit — better suited to making the presidential campaign competitive this year. But perhaps no Republican candidate was so poorly suited to the task of running a presidential race.
McCain earned his chops as the media’s favorite Republican senator by being a maverick, or in a less exalted formulation, a gadfly. He pursued pet causes inimical to ...
Remainders: Around the block
Ben Smith's Blog —
... out why a state agency director pulled up Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher's child support records.
David Gelertner (former Ben Smith prof) argues that McCain's stature approaches holiness.
Obama calls on Stevens to resign. http://www.pollster.com/blogs/late_deciders_in_recent_presid.php
Sullivan demonstrates how easy it is to mishear what crowds yell.
Is "Soviet" the new "Hitler"?
Lowry says it all comes down to the candidate.
Jake Tapper wonders if Sarah ...
Did John McCain Withdraw From The Race?
Daily Kos —
Other than a McCain attack on Joe Biden, there is absolutely no evidence that he's still in the campaign, at least according to the FOX News home page which is now devoted to spreading false smears about Barack Obama. They really don't like their candidate, do they?
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... a cancer, and because, at the New York Times, he has one of the most prominent perches in opinion journalism. He can pick his column topic, and several times in recent weeks he's felt the need to detail the flaws he sees in Palin, and McCain, and the conservative movement, and Republicans in general, etc., as well as what appeals to him about Obama (he's a "homeostasis machine.")
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A re-ordering ot RIGHT opinion will be in order after the election.
John McCain -- The Agony of a Gadfly by Rich Lowry on National Review Online
But he ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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John McCain — The Agony of a Gadfly by Rich Lowry on National Review Online
But he can’t be a gadfly now, at least not for another week or so. McCain’s character and background still might see him ...
Day By Day by Chris Muir October 29, 2008 - Shelf Life
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... John McCain made his name in national politics by being the “MAVERICK” to his own Republican party. However, McCain is being hoisted up by his own petard in this Presidential race. ...
Day By Day by Chris Muir October 30, 2008 - RINO Virus
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... From Rich Lowry at National Review:
McCain earned his chops as the media’s favorite Republican senator by being a maverick, or in a less exalted formulation, a gadfly. He pursued pet causes inimical to his party, such as campaign-finance reform, and made it his role to tell fellow Republicans what he considered hard truths.
None of this endeared him to Republican primary voters. He won the nomination anyway on the basis of his admirable support for the surge (adopted when he was in typical gadfly mode) and a few stock lines. He became the Republican ...
The Party Of Denial
Daily Kos —
... I haven't read all the coverage of the squabble between McCain-land and Palin-land, and I don't even care about the details, but the mere fact that there is such a tussle going on is of endless amusement to me. (You can read some of it here, ...
The Postmortems Continue
Slublog —
Rich Lowry has a post up about John McCain's election loss. It's got some good information from various campaign sources regarding the tension between Palin and some of the aides who were assigned to work with her.
While it is a good read, I think Lowry figured out why McCain lost even before the election was held.
As for Palin, I think she'll be fine, despite how silly her fellow Republicans are being at the moment. I think she should spend the next few years just being as effective a governor as she can be. I don't know what her future will ...
