Since Monday the McCain camp has stepped up its personal attacks against Alaskans. They've continued their D.C.-style tactics against neighbors in this small state. These are the things you have to do when your presidential candidate doesn't want his VP to honor a promise, and doesn't want evidence to come out before an election.
Could it be that the lies and blind-patriotism of the far-right propagandists are painting an historic, brilliant, accomplished, presidential candidate as some kind of Bin Laden meets Farrakhan chimera? 24 hours a day?
The Keating Five scandal is a crucial back story that undercuts McCain's entire image as an ethical reformer who can clean up Washington. It foreshadows everything McCain has become.
Bloomberg has come to his fork in the road: One route ends with his legacy intact as an accomplished, nonpartisan mayor. The other leads to a dead end where no one can ever again believe him.
Most of us have had to settle for Miss Congeniality rather than Miss Alaska in the beauty pageant of life. But just because we can relate to Palin doesn't mean she should be in a position to become president.
As we fight to lower energy prices and lay the groundwork for a clean, independent energy future, I can't help but ask -- how did we get here?
What kind of guy would write, "Here's what the law says," when everyone else in the media reads the actual words, which say the opposite? Byron York is that kind of guy.
News Alert! Some fancy lady named Lynn Forester de Rothschild has decided that Barack Obama is an "elitist" and therefore she's going to endorse John McCain. Is this the greatest news factoid of all time? Answer: YES.
It seems that with each new punch thrown by the opposition, his most avid supporters, especially those on the chattering Left who supposedly know better, seem to forget... that Obama is good at this.
What a political scandal feels like to a staffer--current, former or "it's complicated"--is an awful lot like grief. Unfortunately, this scandal won't go away.
While the Palin story tracks a familiar cultural narrative, it does so with a perverse twist. She would be coming to Washington to serve the very elites that the Mr. Smiths of popular imagination put to shame.
Yesterday morning on the Today Show, John McCain was angry, wooden and sulky. But more than that, he seemed not to have a clue what he was talking about.
Why are commercial pilots grounded at the age of 65? Because maybe their judgment starts to get a little fuzzy at 72 when they're dealing with life-or-death decisions that affect many other people.
