The professional malpractice of the 2008 John McCain campaign team, revisited.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 7th at 12:30 PM  | 

This Breitbart article about McCain’s 2008 campaign team is infuriating me far too much for me to write coherently about it for very long, so let me be brief: speaking professionally, I agree with it. The faction of Team McCain represented by Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace should not be allowed anywhere NEAR a Republican Presidential campaign for the rest of their lives. And I | Read More »

TIME, Marshall Ganz, Barack Obama, and 2012.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 27th at 12:31 AM  | 

(Fair warning: while the original H/T is via RCP, there are a lot of links to Left-publications and sites in this post.  This was essentially unavoidable) It was the funniest thing: I was flipping through this Michael Scherer article on the resumption of the Obama 2012 campaign (short version: “Getting re-elected is hard!”  Particularly when the Democrats have to run on an actual record, instead | Read More »

‘He was supposed to be competent.’ Wait, what?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 30th at 03:42 PM  | 

That’s the title of a Peggy Noonan piece, and Joy McCann (Little Miss Attila) has some comments about the stars – or scales – falling from Peggy’s eyes: …she, Ann Althouse, and Megan McArdle will have to deal with it for the rest of their lives. Those three women have all been an intellectual blessing to public discourse in this country, but they all succombed | Read More »