Remember Phil Gramm? The John McCain campaign co-chair who said Americans complaining about the state of the economy are "whiners"? There was a furor, and McCain disavowed his remarks, and he stepped down ...
... so he said it again, right here in Minneapolis!
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After months of railing on the need for experience, John McCain has chosen a 44-year-old running mate with two years as a state governor under her belt. Talk about staying on message.
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The special election win for the Democratic Party in Mississippi this week was the third such loss for a GOP desperately hoping to regain some of the seats they lost in 2006. Cue the pundit-parade!
The Mississippi defeat elicited a Karl Rove GOP State of the Party report disguised as a Wall Street Journal op-ed. He called it like he (and everyone else) saw it--a blow:
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"You keep using this word," Inigo Montoya says in the Princess Bride. "I do not think it means what you think it means."
Right-wing pundits use the word "appeasement" with regularity, and at least one -- talk show yakker Kevin James -- objectively doesn't know. In an appearance on Chris Matthews' Hardball show, James tried to equate Barack Obama's plan to open diplomatic channels with Iran to Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler.
Trouble is, he didn't know what Chamberlain actually did, as this painful video and transcript make clear.
More >>"A generation ago," writes David Frum in his latest column, the Republican Party "owned the youth vote." It's an easy thing to forget, but Frum has not:
In 1984 and 1988, first Ronald Reagan and then George H.W. Bush won first-time voters and under-29 voters by big margins: 20 points in 1984. The twentysomethings of the 1980s remain the most Republican cohort in the electorate to this day ... Today's twentysomethings are the most anti-Republican age group in the electorate.More >>
The chairman of the Michigan Republican party, Saul Anuzis, in an article over at Politico, has this to say of the state of the GOP in 2008: “After twelve years of being in power, you tend to get fat and lazy, and in some cases arrogant with respect to your positions ... If you go back to 2006 most people would agree that not only did we lose our brand, that we damaged our brand significantly. We are clearly rebuilding.”
Politico documents the "dire straits" of state GOP parties. Here are some highlights:
More >>While Pawlenty is spending an awful lot of time angling for the VP slot, The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg, as discussed last week, is pushing the McCain/Rice ticket.
What Hertzberg also did is raise a legacy issue for which critics of President Bush--and perhaps even what Hertzberg calls the Republican Party's "hardened racists and incorrigible misogynists"--may be hesitant to hand him:
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But because that party and that media outlet don't exist, we'll have to settle for Republican group sex aficionado Roger Stone and Fox News.
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