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Sometimes it’s not a candidate’s big flip-flops—the giant midcourse corrections, the Saul-on-the-road-to-Damascus conversions—that provoke a contemptuous snort.Sometimes it’s a little news item like this, from Atlanta, heralding Ralph Reed’s wormy attempts to return to respectability.
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John McCain’s campaign manager this morning repeatedly declined to rule out the possibility that the Republican nominee may pledge to serve just one term.
Rick Davis, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” demurred three times when Chris Wallace raised the prospect that McCain may use the Republican convention next month to make such a promise.
Wallace raised the prospect — much discussed in political circles — that McCain could combine the one-term pledge with a vow that he would run an apolitical administration.
“If you know John McCain, you know there’s not going to be much politics in the White House,” Davis replied, ignoring the matter of whether the Arizona senator, who turns 72 later this month, could limit himself to a single term.
The presidential campaign veered Sunday into a discussion about the escalating conflict between Georgia and Russia, with a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama suggesting that Sen. John McCain’s criticism of Russia stems from his campaign’s connections to Georgian political leadership.
“His campaign is run by lobbyists that represent Georgia and other countries,” New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) said on ABC’s “This Week,” a clear reference to Randy Scheunemann, McCain’s foreign policy adviser, who has been a registered lobbyist in Washington for the Tbilisi government.
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The new one truly is painful. Note how a negative ad is constructed. There is a cover: in this case an argument about Obama’s pledge to raise taxes. That argument is dishonest as Ambers…
A little fun? Obama isn’t proposing to raise taxes on people earning $42,000 a year, as the ad insinuates. The ad is substantively sleazy. But the tax issue is not what this ad is about. The ad is designed to perpetuate the notion that Obama is a wealthy, pampered socialist elitist, while “we” are not. When you look at McCain’s bio and Obama’s, you begin to appreciate the chutzpah.
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More evidence that Sen. John McCain is giving fits to many conservatives, like those who comprise The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board: they’re asking aloud if he’s stupid.What triggered this question? Recent comments by the Republican presidential candidate himself.
Read this from the Swamp.
“Talk to your daughter,” was the greeting I got when I answered my cell phone the other day. Never a good sign from my wife, she said, “Here, she wants to know if she can see ‘Juno’” and promptly handed the phone to our nine-year old, Margaret, before I could protest.
“Dad, can I see Juno?,” she half whined, half protested in advance of a possible negative decision. My brain locked. I had just seen “Juno” and walked out of the theater thinking about all the 15-year old girls out there who might now be convinced that having a baby is really all right. Mom and Dad will understand. The kids at school all still really love me, even if they shun me for now. There’s a sweet, young, childless couple across town whom will take this little burden off my hands to fill their lives with joy while I go on with my own.
“No, honey, you can’t see Juno,” I said.
“Why not?” came the expected retort.
“Because it’s a big lie,” I had to dodge through the phone static.
All set to think my opposition would be based on something that had to do with sex, she was caught off-guard and said, “Oh, OK. Bye, bye. Dad. Love you.” Click.
Saved, but not for long.
If John McCain is elected president, he has promised to appoint judges who can live up to the standards of Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas. During the McCain Presidency, Margaret will grow to the ripe age of 18, already old for a young girl who might think pulling a “Juno” is cool because it was so cool in the movie. And if, during that time, she does become pregnant (no one is ever really at fault when it happens, just see the movie), her chances of having a choice about whether or not to have the baby will have already been decided by John’s Court.
As the remaining moderate Supremes quickly start passing through the Pearly Gates, or just heaving sighs of resignations almost immediately after his swearing in, John’s Court will fast become home to the Kenneth Starrs. Individual rights will become suborned for the good of conservative society at large and several generations in a row will have to suffer the reality of back-alley abortions.
Who knows, maybe Margaret will survive McCain, but what about John’s Court?
- No John Don
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