After reading this news item, I begin to wonder if McCain can make to Labor Day.
Right now it sounds like everyone in the McCain camp is in deep denial, but sooner or later someone has to sit down with the candidate and make them see reason.
It is always sad when it ends like this before a single vote has been cast, John McCain is much like Marc Anthony's legionaries who "saw reason" and simply melted away during the night leaving him alone against Augustus.
Here an already strained metaphor, collapses, for truly who is cast as Augustus among the tinpots, frauds, boosters and tedious glad-handers that comprise the current GOP presidential roster?
Friday, July 06, 2007
Thursday, July 05, 2007
McCain on the Ropes?
Lousy fundraising and stalled message has compelled John McCain, once the GOP's Man on Horseback, to cut back his staff.
Maybe the rumors are true, that Big John will drop out before Halloween....
Well it's not hard to see why, McCain is wa-ay past his expiration date politically, he could've swept the country in 2000 but for Karl Rove. Now he is just too old, too mean tempered, and too tied to our current policy failures to get any traction out there. In the last eight years McCain's program has been one of the wonders of this world, he has carried water for this administration with a brown-nosers eagerness, yet all that has gained him exactly nothing in the way of props in the West Wing or among the GOP base for that matter.
And so quite literally, McCain falls with a thud between three stolls, if such a thing is possible.
Given this bizarre spectacle, is it any wonder that the independents who once swooned over McCain have moved on, to Bloomberg, Hagel or who knows perhaps Giuliani or Obama?
If McCain does bail, I suspect Giuliani will reap the benefit (assuming he hasn't blown himself sky-high by then) with Romney and Thompson picking up the scraps and leavings.
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Well there you have it, a whole Steve Stark column in precis'...enjoy.
Maybe the rumors are true, that Big John will drop out before Halloween....
Well it's not hard to see why, McCain is wa-ay past his expiration date politically, he could've swept the country in 2000 but for Karl Rove. Now he is just too old, too mean tempered, and too tied to our current policy failures to get any traction out there. In the last eight years McCain's program has been one of the wonders of this world, he has carried water for this administration with a brown-nosers eagerness, yet all that has gained him exactly nothing in the way of props in the West Wing or among the GOP base for that matter.
And so quite literally, McCain falls with a thud between three stolls, if such a thing is possible.
Given this bizarre spectacle, is it any wonder that the independents who once swooned over McCain have moved on, to Bloomberg, Hagel or who knows perhaps Giuliani or Obama?
If McCain does bail, I suspect Giuliani will reap the benefit (assuming he hasn't blown himself sky-high by then) with Romney and Thompson picking up the scraps and leavings.
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Well there you have it, a whole Steve Stark column in precis'...enjoy.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Late word has come to Humble Elias,
from a definitive source associated with WTKK 96.9 FM that morning man Michael Graham had did NOT take columnist payola from the Bush Administration.
Well I, for one, am glad that has been settled.
Our radio talk show hosts are a precious national institution whose credibility must be defended by All Citizens if democracy is to survive here in the Good Old US of A.
On that note, I wish all eleven of you out there a very happy Fourth of July.
Well I, for one, am glad that has been settled.
Our radio talk show hosts are a precious national institution whose credibility must be defended by All Citizens if democracy is to survive here in the Good Old US of A.
On that note, I wish all eleven of you out there a very happy Fourth of July.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Libby Liberated...
As you well know, President Bush commuted Scooter Libby's sentence yesterday. I have very little to add other than to note that this does nothing but embolden all the sallow humorless geeks that run the campaigns of the current GOP presidential aspirants. If Libby can beat the rap, then what freedom, what license, what scope of action can they look forward to once they seize power?
This is why, to a man, the whole of the GOP field was for pardoning Libby, because they want that precedent set for their own people when the time comes.
The sheer market value of a highly placed staff job in the White House just went thru the roof as of today.
This is why, to a man, the whole of the GOP field was for pardoning Libby, because they want that precedent set for their own people when the time comes.
The sheer market value of a highly placed staff job in the White House just went thru the roof as of today.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Quick question...
So we can expect any day now for the Catholic Bishops to start beatin' down Rudy Guiliani on the basis of his multiple divorces and his equivocal support for abortion...right????
When will he come in for the whole nine yards, the pastoral letters, the pressure on his local parish to turn him out (preferably on a Sunday morning with a Fox News Crew nearby) the 10th century fulminations from stalwart church laymen as Pat Buchanan and Dinesh D' Sousa?
I mean, they did it to John Kerry for much the same reasons, their silence so far with respect to that champion of gay rights Rudy Giuliani is all the more puzzling.
When will he come in for the whole nine yards, the pastoral letters, the pressure on his local parish to turn him out (preferably on a Sunday morning with a Fox News Crew nearby) the 10th century fulminations from stalwart church laymen as Pat Buchanan and Dinesh D' Sousa?
I mean, they did it to John Kerry for much the same reasons, their silence so far with respect to that champion of gay rights Rudy Giuliani is all the more puzzling.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Today...
Jeff Jacoby (rightly) took to task a disparate collection of commentator for their unseemly anti-Mormon utterances vis-a-vis Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy.
The Globe's own Laughing Young Senescence trots out some god-awful woswer from wa-ay down south and the usual postings at Moveon.org.
However, Jeff errs mightily when he compares Mitt's religious woes to those of presidential candidate John Kennedy circa 1960.
Then, Kennedy argued that his religion ought to pose no threat to the polity and then went on to reaffirm his belief in a rigorous separation of church and state.
Today, the "separation of church and state" is regarded as a dangerous remnant of Stalinist thinking on the part of most of the GOP's base and leadership.
For candidate Romney to come out in favor of such a notion would instantly brand him an apostate and some sort of dangerous tree-hugging agnostic weirdo.
Moreoever it is an article of faith in today's GOP that a bumptious blatting wowserism is a sort of super-qualification for the US Presidency.
Far from affirming a high way between church and state, most of the current republican presidential roster are openly promising only to take orders only from the Little Baby Jesus hisself once elected.
Therefore like all Mike Huckabee and all the other political parsons in the race, Mitt is making a great too-do about his close personal relationship with the big bearded spook in the sky.
Well if Romney (among others) is gonna make a gross public spectacle of his own pietism then it ought then it ought to be legitimate to ask politely and insistently as to where this christian politics is taking us?
Frankly if Mitt Romney wants to believe all that nonsense in the Book of Mormon, that is his business. If however he wants to publicly assert that his Bishopric in the LDC somehow gives him a profound insight into the spiritual needs of the nation, then I'm sorry that makes his Mormonism a legitimate line of inquiry.
At the very least, perhaps Bishop Romney would like to enlighten his future serfs as to whether or not the bible supercedes the constitution (as many of his fellow republicans profess to believe) and what steps he will take to impose Mosiac law on the USA.
I mean, why is his triffling with the US constitution at all, with the little baby Jesus telling him and everyone else presumably how to run things?
A crude formulation to be sure, but it's as good a start as any to the debate.
The Globe's own Laughing Young Senescence trots out some god-awful woswer from wa-ay down south and the usual postings at Moveon.org.
However, Jeff errs mightily when he compares Mitt's religious woes to those of presidential candidate John Kennedy circa 1960.
Then, Kennedy argued that his religion ought to pose no threat to the polity and then went on to reaffirm his belief in a rigorous separation of church and state.
Today, the "separation of church and state" is regarded as a dangerous remnant of Stalinist thinking on the part of most of the GOP's base and leadership.
For candidate Romney to come out in favor of such a notion would instantly brand him an apostate and some sort of dangerous tree-hugging agnostic weirdo.
Moreoever it is an article of faith in today's GOP that a bumptious blatting wowserism is a sort of super-qualification for the US Presidency.
Far from affirming a high way between church and state, most of the current republican presidential roster are openly promising only to take orders only from the Little Baby Jesus hisself once elected.
Therefore like all Mike Huckabee and all the other political parsons in the race, Mitt is making a great too-do about his close personal relationship with the big bearded spook in the sky.
Well if Romney (among others) is gonna make a gross public spectacle of his own pietism then it ought then it ought to be legitimate to ask politely and insistently as to where this christian politics is taking us?
Frankly if Mitt Romney wants to believe all that nonsense in the Book of Mormon, that is his business. If however he wants to publicly assert that his Bishopric in the LDC somehow gives him a profound insight into the spiritual needs of the nation, then I'm sorry that makes his Mormonism a legitimate line of inquiry.
At the very least, perhaps Bishop Romney would like to enlighten his future serfs as to whether or not the bible supercedes the constitution (as many of his fellow republicans profess to believe) and what steps he will take to impose Mosiac law on the USA.
I mean, why is his triffling with the US constitution at all, with the little baby Jesus telling him and everyone else presumably how to run things?
A crude formulation to be sure, but it's as good a start as any to the debate.
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