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Roger Simon : It's honorable of John McCain
to try to calm down some of the crowds...
his campaign has spent months inciting. ( ed.note : Simon's article actually hits McCain's campaign pretty hard -- that it's out of control, tanking, that his ...
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The Tire Swing That Dare Not Speak Its Name
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Tire Swinging This Hard Leaves Rope Burns
Talking Points Memo —
David Brooks was a clinical study in tire swing recidivism last night on Charlie Rose:
No More Mister Nice Blog —
THAT BAFFLINGLY UNPLEASANT PERSON WE SAW LAST NIGHT David Brooks, appearing last night as one of Charlie Rose's post-debate panelists, seemed mystified: I say, as someone who's watched him [John McCain] lo these many years, when I think of him at his happy times, he's leaning back, he's joking around -- and a lot of the other panelists have seen him in this -- and the guy you see in this debate, sort of hyper-wound-up, leaning forward, with that serious expression, that's not the guy. And maybe he just could never translate the personal McCain into that, that guy, the hyper-wound-up guy we saw tonight. I think that ...
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/26/2008 — In today's agonies, David Brooks trembles over the transformation of the once great, John McCain. You know, all the usual blather about the great leader he once was and his tragic decline these last few weeks or months.
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In Oregon, Rival Candidate Rides Democratic Wave
nytimes.com 10/15/2008 — At a time when many Republicans are distancing themselves from their party, Senator Gordon Smith is a study in the extreme, running ads linking himself with prominent Democrats. >
David Brooks and the Plight of Reformist Republicans
blogs.tnr.com 11/11/2008 — Earlier this year, in a back and forth with Ross Douthat , I argued that reformist conservatives like him and his Grand New Party co-author Reihan Salam had exactly the right ideas for appealing to working and middle-class voters, but that the GOP ...
The Trouble With Character
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/18/2008 — David Brooks was very high on Barack Obama for a while. Then he got very upset at Obama for a while, slamming him as “Fast Eddie Obama.” Now he’s back to mostly praise :
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tire swing
urbandictionary.com 3/5/2009 — permalink: Share on Send to a friend your email: their email: send me the word of the day (it's free) 1. tire swing The tendency of the media to be enamored with John McCain. Being "on the tire swing" is often used on blogs as a shorthand for being ...
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