Wednesday, 02.06.08
Buyer's Remorse?
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McCain and Immigration
6 February 2008
Ross Douthat on McCain's biggest vulnerability.
Dobson Blasts McCain
5 February 2008
McCain hasn't won the Republican nomination yet, but the fat lady is just about read to sing. So will the celebrated maverick right Rove's wrongs, win the White House, and build a more inclusive Republican majority? Or is he the second coming of Bob Dole, an irascible, ornery war hero with a temperament unsuited to the times? There have been moments when Americans valued the martial virtues most: duty, honor, courage. But these have been, in truth, brief moments, which followed the most serious, sustained, bloody conflicts -- the Civil War, the Second World War. Americans then inevitably turned to what you might call our national equilibrium, a state that is diverse, disputatious, commercially-minded, perhaps to a fault. It is this bustling, grasping, devout, disorderly country the aristocratic McCain hopes to lead, despite self-professed ignorance of matters economic, despite an apparent indifference to matters of the spirit. Republicans having second thoughts are running out of time ...
Hugh's BlueMitt Romney superfan Hugh Hewitt sees the writing on the wall and decides, without say so explicitly, to hold his nose and vote for the dread maverick McCain. |
Honor Above AllBack in 1999, Michael W. Lynch questioned McCain's reputation as a man of principle. His aristocratic code of virtue makes him inconsistent and even irrational. |
Base MotivesThomas Edsall argues that while a McCain-Clinton race would raise the partisan temperature, a McCain-Obama race would likely lower it. |
McCain't Be BeatMatt Continetti notes that on issues where Democrats are popular, McCain is right there with them. On issues where Democrats are unpopular, McCain is closer to the voting public. |
