No, but it counts for a lot. John McCain is not Andre Agassi but the Arizona Senator could take a lesson or two from the Las Vegas tennis star.

It’s always a pleasure to see the Left’s breathless explanations of how amazingly good we are at the most esoteric forms of evil. Not least of which is because that as long as they do this, they’ll never confront the truth: which is pretty much that yeah, they really do suck that badly.

See here.

If your candidate is going to stage enormous rallies in front of tens of thousands of chanting Germans (with monuments to Prussian military might in the background) in the middle of his Presidential campaign, it isn’t the GOP’s fault if the footage comes out looking a little like Hitler at Nuremberg.

He is immensely good at getting people to take Harry Reid to the policy woodshed. For this alone, people who are fans of the Senate and its reputation can thank him.

But July 30th? Not so much. (Via Hot Air Headlines

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This is too funny.

On WILM AM in Dover, Delaware, this afternoon, Mitt Romney tell us that he does not “plan on being part of the [Republican Presidential] ticket.”

Promises, promises.

What if McCain were to offer the job to him? Respondeth Mitt: “I think any Republican who was offered the chance to be VP would certainly serve their party and serve our nominee and do so proudly.”

The question is, would Romney help out with the fundraising even if he is not on the ticket?

We’ve heard that Barack Obama finally realizes why he was put on the Earth. We know that this is the moment for which the world is waiting. Barack Obama has become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions. (He did not specify to which traditions he will return us, but I suppose their very nice. You know, the Monroe Doctrine, manifest destiny, the pre-New Deal ethic, maybe the gold standard. Who knows but Barry?)

All this nonsense brings to mind the end of the third book of Keats’ fragment Hyperion. The printed version ends with the word “celestial,” but the tubercular genius penned a few words in his own hand afterward. Keats was writing of Apollo in 1819, as the gods rose and the titans fell. A quick substitution on my part gives us the sense that John Keats foresaw the coming of our political messiah.

At length
Apollo shriek’d; — and lo! from all his limbs
Celestial Glory dawn’d: he was a god!

(Or to paraphrase a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “It’s only a model.”)

It has gotten a huge boost. This is a win-win situation for Republicans. If a package passes, Republicans–who have been most associated with offshore exploration for oil–will easily take the credit since they worked the hardest to push for new exploration to take place. If a package does not pass, Republicans will be able to continue the pressure on Democrats throughout the election cycle. I imagine that there are a lot of Democrats who are upset with Harry Reid’s decision to grant a vote on the issue and wish that Reid was as tough as Nancy Pelosi in refusing to let the issue come to the floor.

It may be coming to an end.