Dave Weigel has a great dispatch from New York’s 23rd district today in The Washington Independent that’s packed with juicy anecdotes, like Fred Thompson choking up as he introduced Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman (if only he’d shown such commitment to his presidential bid!).
Frank Rich really lit into the Republican Party yesterday:
a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war.
a G.O.P. killing field
confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama
Alan Brinkley--who is the provost and a professor of history at Columbia University, as well as a National Book Award-winning author--will be writing for us throughout the Republican convention.
WASHINGTON -- Danielle Wibeto might be John McCain's worst nightmare. A 23-year old pro-life Christian, Wibeto travels around the country promoting a children's book--Justice Loves Babies, which she wrote with her twin sister, Darlene--about a child trying to save his unborn sister from being aborted. The Wibeto sisters, from a small, conservative town in central California and staunchly pro-life, are the kind of voters that McCain needs near unanimous support from if he has any chance of defeating Barack Obama. Will she vote for McCain?
Sitting behind John McCain in an arm chair, providing ersatz legal gravitas:
Fred Thompson made his first public appearance since dropping out of the presidential race Tuesday, using his conservative credentials to backstop a major speech Tuesday from presumptive Republican nominee John McCain on judicial appointments.
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