@$$H01es I can't stomach to watch. How did they get those positions? People like Kristol shouldn't even be given an audience.

The rats are jumping ship because they are all careerist looking to the next big opportunity to cash in a "true" conservatives. What a Bankrupt bunch ... figuratively and literally now .... now that it'll take 18 years to get back what was lost in 3 weeks time.

The crisis the Obama inherits could be a real opportunity to REFORM a great many things. I hope the Democrats don't squander this opportunity from within.

What McCain Hasn't Tried, by Fred Hiatt, Monday, October 13, 2008; Page A21.

This is a compellingly simple article. Hiatt says:

"..[I]magine if McCain had selected for his running mate not a partisan attack dog but someone with deep knowledge of the economy and a record of reaching across the aisle.

Imagine if McCain himself had decided to respond to this crisis as an American first, a candidate second....

I certainly can't prove that a McCain campaign built on respect and attention to issues would be faring better than the real thing. Without Sarah Palin to rally the base, and without the insidious questioning of Obama's patriotism, McCain might be even further behind.

But he also might be doing better -- and he might be happier, too. That, at least, is one way to interpret an intriguing exchange that took place at a rally in Minnesota on Friday.

A woman took the microphone to say that Obama could not be trusted because he is an "Arab" -- not a surprising misconception, given the Republicans who have taken to stressing Obama's middle name, Hussein. But McCain rebuked her: "No, ma'am, he's a decent family man, a citizen, who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. And that's what this campaign is all about."

It's not what this campaign is all about, and as McCain was speaking, his campaign ads were calling Obama a liar. But it's what the campaign could have been about, if McCain had really wanted it that way.

Republicans can't seem to warm up to their republican record as republicans who are running to hold office as republicans.

When Republican republicans run for republican offices without wanting anyone to see that they are republicans who support republicans...

aawww whatever, "Republican" is the new "Liberal", look for party ID in November's exit polls to hit historic lows.

Steele defrauded voters in 2006 by paying homeless people to pass out leaflets saying he was endorsed by Democrats.  He had not been so endorsed.  Then he said he wasn't involved, until the homeless people identified their wives as the ones giving out soup and tee shirts.  Oops.  Rove and Cheney, the ones who made it embarrassing to be a Republican, designed this approach.

Oh man, thanks for posting this video.  I feel all warm and fuzzy.

Hey, the Republicans can do the "circular firing squad" thang too! :)

But Kristol is still a jerk.