Good to see the fine folks in Tuscaloosa grasp what the Washington Post was unable to:Michael Mukasey may have a distinguished career as a judge but as U.S. attorney general, he's a loser. For all the interest he has shown in the duties of his...
Author: Scott Lemieux
Via Matt W., the fact that the GOP has "progressed from 2000 where they refused to count Democratic votes, to 2008 where they are now refusing to count their own.
Yglesias points out the problems with Ambinder's claim that "Obama cannot win the states where the majority of Democrats reside": i.e. it's a more tendentious way of saying that "Clinton.
I have mixed feelings on the suspension of David Shuster:To state the obvious, Shuster's comments were sexist, unless you can point me to some example of Shuster discussing Mitt Romney or John McCain "pimping out" their children because they're active in their father's campaign. The...
Ugh. Remember when installing an Islamist quasi-state in Iraq was defended as a boon to the interests of Iraqi women (oddly enough, usually by people otherwise hostile to women's rights?).
A valuable roundup. It's easy to understand why this kind of stuff pushes people into Clinton's camp.
Hair Club For Growth President Pat Toomey suggests some running mates for McCain; the first few seem plausible. However, I would strongly urge McCain to go with the boundless charisma and highly popular non-crackpotery of Phil Gramm or Steve Forbes. (Maybe Gramm and Giuliani could...
I agree with Ezra that it would be unfortunate for the nomination to come down to superdelegates, and I would hope that there would be a norm among many superdelegates.
Jack Balkin points us to this article in the WSJ defending John McCain on the question of judicial appointments. Part of the op-ed consists of the usual vacuous buzzwords like.
Brad Plumer reports that Karl Rove (and I sort of admire the spare elegance of Rove serving as an election analyst for Fox News; I mean, why not just skip the middleman) threw cold water on the idea of a McCain/Huckabee ticket. I have no...
I decided to watch the returns with the second-best commentariat in the blogosphere, which meant that I couldn't hear the speeches, etc. I think Yglesias gets the bottom line about.
Shorter Verbatim Hugh Hewitt: "McCain can't be considered a frontrunner by any conventional standard." Sure, keep telling yourself that and you'll...oh, actually, even he couldn't actually convince himself of that.