Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.'
Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
