Category: 2004 Election

My buddy Sean Hannity loves to talk about John Kerry’s private plane and multiple SUVs as a way of blowing smoke over any sort of talk about environmental or oil issues. In fact, his smoke screens alone have probably added significantly to global warning, but I digress… In today’s Chronicle, there is an article I’ve…

I’ve been open to the Kerry McCain ticket, but it struck me this week that McCain may actually be (even) more useful to the Kerry campaign right where he is — a Republican, and at least nominally part of the Bush campaign — someone who can’t be completely dismissed by the Right, much less independents…

Political Wire: McCain Speculation Continues No, Kerry won’t nominate McCain (note: I am notoriously always wrong when I make predictions about McCain)… but the speculation lends him gravitas, what the folks in the early 19th century called “bottom.” Let the speculation continue. Make the convention suspenseful by keeping the veep nominee secret till the nominating…

There’s being right and there’s winning the argument and they are two different things. Those of us who feared the worst of the (unpreventable, post 2000 election, I’m afraid) adventure in Iraq were right in 2002 but we weren’t winning the argument. The blame-Cassandra tack that the administration-policy apologist dead-enders are taking now, I’m afraid,…

Index of Edgewise on ‘bush’

On McLehrer today Zbigniew Brzezinksy (sp?) reported from the late water’s-edge consensus (cold war, new world order, remember?) to remind us all that our government has undermined the crediblity of the words “weapons of mass destruction” and that we should be careful not to debase “sovereignty” as well starting on June 30. He then referred…