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ROGER THORNHILL


Thursday, February 07, 2008

All your base are belong to John McCain

I love the argument that McCain can't win because the base will never accept him. They have somewhere else to go? They won't turn out like gangbusters to vote against Hillary (if it's Hillary)? Is there apt to be some faction of the GOP urging the goofballs in the base to do something other than what they have been programmed to do for fifteen-plus years: stand with God against the nightmare scenario of a Hillary Clinton presidency? Not when you put it that way there isn't.

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posted at 10:09 AM

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Candidate CTRL-ALT-DELETE

"Over the last week I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice." - Hillary Clinton, January 8, 2008
I'm all for deathbed conversions (really I am!), but where does the 35 years of experience come in? Didn't that provide her with "a voice" . . . or at least the wisdom to "listen to you" before the last week? Does she really get to say, in effect, "Oh, my goodness, I was running a man-scripted campaign, but now I've suddenly found my own voice"?

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posted at 8:39 AM

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Sure, "quixotic third-party candidacy" has a nice ring to it, but . . .

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced tonight that he is quitting the Republican party and changing his affiliation to independent.

The announcement came after Mr. Bloomberg gave a speech denouncing partisan gridlock in Washington, stirring renewed speculation that he is preparing to run as an independent or third-party candidate in 2008. - New York Times, June 19, 2007
Assuming that Bloomberg decides to enter the presidential race with the goal of winning, I can't see why it would make more sense for him to run as an independent than as a Democrat. Is there some Byzantine setup in place that would exclude him, at this still-early date, from critical party caucuses and primaries? Because, otherwise, why not just flip all the way back to being a Democrat, spin whatever forgotten-in-a-week narrative is necessary to fix yourself in the popular mind as a legitimate Democrat, and drive on?

It would be a long shot any way you sliced it, so why not an approach (running as a Democrat) that has occasionally borne fruit in American political history, instead of being the latest quixotic third-party candidate to go nowhere?

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posted at 3:59 PM