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  • Guilt By Association

    Well, if we're going to play the Guilt by Association game — let's go! Perhaps McCain would like to explain these associations to the American people, including why he chose to appear on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show less than a year ago and praise him. <a ...
    Posted to Politics by dmwhipp on October 11, 2008
  • The Saddest Thing is....

    The saddest thing is that McCain did not, as the writer states, make this decision ''with his gut''. His gut told him to pick Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge- People he actually knows, and respects, and who may have been able to help him govern, and who could have taken over as President if necessary. John McCain ignored his gut and allowed his VP pick ...
    Posted to Politics by Glass Horse on September 2, 2008
  • McCain/Palin: the cold hard actuary truth

    The arguments attempting to suggest counterbalance of the team of McCain/Palin against Obama/Biden do not account for the greater chance that McCain will die in office. According to statistics on such things, the chance that someone who is in their seventies will die by any cause in a given year is very high, and in McCain's case would be as high ...
    Posted to Readme by dwg on September 1, 2008
  • A Whiter Shade of Palin

    This is a cynical and boneheaded move. In one deft motion, McCain has : 1) killed the ''experience argument'' which is vital due to McCain's age and health history. 2) failed to energize the base for the ground game in November (which a Huckabee pick would have done). [Moreover, anyone else think that runing for VP with a young special needs ...
    Posted to Politics by dwg on August 29, 2008