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...Republican recriminations will be ugly, but McCain was probably the most electable candidate the party had: a genuine war hero with an impressive record of public service that didn't always include marching in lockstep with George W. Bush. He threw some Hail Mary passes - Palin; the "suspension" of his campaign - but he didn't have much of a choice against a Democratic tide. He was the right guy in the wrong year. If Washington Republicans decide that he lost because he was too squishy on immigration or too pro-regulation in his response to the economic crisis...
...diva" and "whack job," was too alluring for the media to ignore. In comparison, Obama's arch remark that Joe Biden can be given to "rhetorical flourishes" looked positively friendly. Another typical week in the message wars. Democrats methodically fired laser-guided missiles at McCain (that he's in lockstep with Bush and represents more of the same), while Republicans hurled every pot and pan within reach at the Teflon opposition (Obama is a socialist; Obama is a celebrity, etc.). The occasional GOP bull's-eye was overshadowed by many misses. The Obama campaign is enjoying the strongest close...
...Childers has not focused his campaign on Bush or on a House Republican caucus that has usually marched in lockstep with Bush or even on Davis; Childers' speeches make it sound as if he's running against a Washington resident named Partisan Bickering. He may be a Democrat, but he's a pro-gun, pro-life, pro-drilling Blue Dog Democrat who rarely mentions House Speaker Nancy Pelosi except to assure voters that she doesn't tell him what to do. And for all his folksy chatter, he won't even say whether he's voting for Obama, shifting...
...current mess did not begin with subprime mortgages. It started with Ronald Reagan and his myths of de-regulation - which have led to the false-fronted stores built from Karl Rove's architectural designs. The Republicans and their ideological ilk have peddled lies and we followed in lockstep. Dan Thompson, Union...
Exhibit A in the possible return to normalcy was the 3.5% loss in the tech-heavy NASDAQ, compared to the much smaller drop in the Dow and S&P. The indexes had been moving pretty much in tandem, but broke their lockstep on Tuesday on concerns about slower growth at Google, Intel's after-the-bell third-quarter earnings report, and how much companies will be investing in technology next year. Though a sharp drop, it was a hopeful sign that investors may have returned to caring about stocks' fundamentals and have left the sphere of fear that had been...