New Word: Rickdavulous

Definition: Adjective describing anything coming out of the McCain campaign these days. The outrage over “lipstick on a pig” has reached fantastic new heights. Or lows, depending on how you conceive it. It’s gotten so bad that I heard a Hillary supporter turned McCain — at a Virginia rally on NPR — claiming that Obama [...]

After Day 3

Guiliani and Palin both managed what could be a new low in a Republican National Convention: Mocking someone for being a community organizer. Guiliani’s assertion that Obama was the least-qualified candidate in 100 years was interesting, to say the least — should Guiliani have won the nomination, the same charge would have been leveled at [...]

Day 2: Some Notes

What to say on a day where the star of NBC’s Law and Order and a losing Vice Presidential candidate receives top billing over the sitting President of the United States? Some quick thoughts.
The wargy theme was to be expected — McCain’s noticeably been touting his POW status, and the “Country First” campaign slogan [...]

Day 2 Preview: We Take This Godsend and Throw It Back!

Bush and Lieberman are on the schedule for tonight.
Well, okay, then! This guarantees pretty much everyone in the nation tonight will have a visceral reaction to someone on the screen.

Day 1 of the RNC

It’s deeply disappointing, really. Today was supposed to be the most uncomfortable day of the Republican National Convention — President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Senator Joe Lieberman were all scheduled to speak. That’s the Dynamic Duo currently rocking a 30 percent approval rating, plus the traitorous Lieberman who’s basically no longer liked in either [...]

Palintology

So, to be clear, if McCain had picked Tim Pawlenty as his running mate, we wouldn’t be quite this aflutter.
In picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain has changed the landscape of the 2008 election — but for how long? And how much? Is Palin going to be a flash-in-the-pan celebrity, of the variant he [...]