Just a collection of good Sunday-before-the-Sunday-before Election Day reads.
David Frum continues the drumbeat of right-wingers abandoning ship with a semi-impassioned plea for the GOP to forget about McCain and focus on other electoral goals (WaPo, "Sorry, Senator. Let's Salvage What We Can.")
David Brooks says something semi-intelligent, although I wonder if he really believes that 2008 is when the GOP "Ceded the Center" (NYT). I'd say that happened circa 1980, Davey.
The Anchorage Daily News damns Palin with faint praise while endorsing Obama for President.
Mark Steyn, the guy who wrote that best-selling book about how we oughta be terrified that the brown Islamic hordes of brown brown people are fuckin' faster than whitey, lets loose a scattershot sampler of every last-ditch right-wing scare tactic in "Point of No Return" (National Review Online). Note how he, like Reagan often did, quotes Calvin Coolidge, that fiscal sage who greased the skids of America's bobsled ride to total economic collapse.
Bill Kristol decides that Palin didn't fail, she was failed by the McCain campaign. Those knuckleheads simply neglected to properly utilize the powerful asset that is Governor Know-Nothing.
ladiesbane says:
And now she's no longer a maverick ("good"); she's a rogue ("bad.") Dissing the robocalls makes her a rogue? (Seriously, who defends autodialers?) This will gain her some useless favor among those who were voting for her team anyway.
Mike says:
Peggy Noonan, WSJ Weekend Edition: "43% Isn't Nothing."
I believe the title says it all.
Larry Yates says:
Not really a comment, but I can't find an email for you. The other day I was in a Panera in Harrisonburg VA, and tried to follow a link from I think Crooks and Liars to your site. Panera blocked me, the first time I have experienced that.
I was irritated enough to follow up when I got home. I complained to Panera and I just got this email from SonicWall, which I guess is Panera's blocker. So, perhaps to your regret, you should be legit for Panera again.
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