New reports have it that McCain is actively pursuing his former Republican primary rival Ron Paul for an endorsement, to discourage Paul’s supporters from voting for Libertarian candidate Bob Barr and splitting the right-wing vote. This raises a couple of questions for me. First, Paul ran for Congress, and this year for president, on the [...]
Archive for September 2nd, 2008
Why Does John McCain Hate America? And Who Will Defend the Honor of Ron Paul?
Posted in General, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics on September 2, 2008 | 18 Comments »
Palin and Experience
Posted in Media, News & Current Events, Politics on September 2, 2008 | 23 Comments »
I find it very hard to believe that the McCain campaign didn’t see this coming: This is why the Palin pick is so puzzling — because it clearly undermines the McCain campaign’s own rhetoric. It’s not that Obama supporters are “suddenly concerned” about experience — by and large, they’ve valued judgment over experience all along; [...]
About That Congressional Approval Rating
Posted in Politics on September 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I know I’ve said this before in comments, most recently here, but I think the “congressional approval rating” is a really stupid metric, useless by any measure. I’ve got the gospel-of-John-esque hubris to quote myself: And Biden is old school democrat, which, based on congressional approval, is not polling that well these days. I hear [...]
Fleeing the Outpost
Posted in Bloggin, Culture, General on September 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Joe Carter is a very creative and interesting blogger who founded Evangelical Outpost, and has been a friendly antagonist for some of us here at Lean Left for a long time. Joe has just announced he is turning EO over to some faculty from Biola, and focusing his efforts on creating a new blog and [...]
Palin's Family Issues
Posted in News & Current Events, Politics on September 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ll third what KTK and especially hilzoy have to say about it: there are plenty of legitimate policy reasons to be critical of Sarah Palin, without dragging her daughter into it or reveling in her family issues. Leave that sort of tripe to the Republicans. Cross-posted at Tennesseefree. P.S. You really should go read the [...]
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