Category: long story short

My instincts about Dean’s chances are just about the opposite of Andrew Northrup’s, but he makes a pretty good point in More Unseemly Politicization of the Political Processes when he suggests that Dean sure had better be able to handle attacks like these from Democrats if he’s going to fight off a scorched-earth media campaign…

Billmon has produced another masterful analysis of the capture of Saddam. This comment in the attached thread caught my eye: am I the only one who smells a rat? Here was an operation involving 600 soldiers going after a tip on saddam hussein, and NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED???THat tells me they knew that not…

There’s a lot of talk lately about the Democrats’ Southern problem — how Bush swept the South last time around, how the Democrats can’t win without the South, and how the South is sure to find any of the Democratic candidates repellent. Why all this concern for the Democrats from big-hearted conservatives like Trent Lott…

Here’s a sideways counter-point to Xian’s earlier post: The newsmedia has a vested interest in keeping these things entertaining. That’s not conspiracy-talk. It’s just capitalism. Year in, year out, the one constant is, there’s always a tussle — a moment of drama. No drama from the Republicans this year, so you can bank on some…

Like Brooks used to be, Kristol is one of those Republican (yes, neoconservative) pundits who isn’t afraid to go against the talking points. He seems to get a bye somehow, maybe as a kind of jester or cassandra. His column in the WashPost today, How Dean Could Win, cuts through the fog of the otherwise…

The latest rumor is that Gore is about to endorse Dean. If true, that looks to me like a massive signal to fall into line to the rest of the faithful. The dirty little secret of this campaign is that if any of the nine candidates were to gain the nomination the Democratic voter base…