David Frum:
Just as 19th-Century Republicans eventually ran out of Union generals from Ohio, so the modern Republican Party has bumped up against the statute of limitations on campaigns against hippies.

Is John McCain’s campaign the most despicable in modern history? Or is he just calling plays from the standard “losing Republican” playbook? Do the minor outrages and insults of previous campaigns fade too quickly into the past to be remembered (e.g. which Obama advisor called Clinton a “monster”? Did Clinton play the race card in [...]

If I were asked to defend (reluctantly!) the proposition that George Bush isn’t that bad of a president, I think a key piece of evidence would be this Rolling Stone biography about John McCain. Yikes.

I find this ironic, because I interned at Hewlett-Packard during graduate school, and I don’t think Carly Fiorina knows how to run a Fortune 500 company either.

An incomplete list of things we know about Sarah Palin:
In both of her big campaign speeches, she repeatedly lied about opposing the bridge to nowhere.
As mayor, she tried to ban books from the public library, and then tried to fire the librarian who wouldn’t go along with her.
As mayor, she fired the police chief for [...]

I’ve come to the conclusion that, although writing about politics is fun, writing about political campaigns is boring. For reasons surpassing understanding, I watched the prime-time hour of the GOP convention last night. Both of the speeches were vicious, petty, and totally without substance. The pathetic spectacle of angry, red-faced men chanting “drill, baby, drill” [...]

Thanks for nothing, John McCain. I was all set to burnish my moderate credentials by writing a post praising your vice-presidential candidate. I was going to talk about how Mitt Romney is a smart, competent manager with an analytical mind; and about how he would make a good-for-a-Republican VP. (I’ve mentioned before how he was [...]

I don’t really have an opinion on Joe Biden — he seems like a good guy, and I once called him oleaginous — but his dismissal of Rudy Giuliani as “noun, verb, 9/11″ remains one of the highlights of the entire primary campaign.

From the Washington Post:
Sen. John McCain’s inability to recall the number of homes he owns during an interview yesterday jeopardized his campaign’s carefully constructed strategy to frame Democratic rival Barack Obama as an out-of-touch elitist
Apparently I’m supposed to believe that eating non-iceberg lettuce and taking one’s shirt off at the beach make one an elitist. [...]

It seems that an increasingly desperate John McCain has accused Obama of taking his shirt off at the beach. How un-American. As all grumpy Republican politicians know, the proper way to enjoy the beach is in black wingtips and a Brooks Brothers suit.

I have very little to say about the presidential race.
Barack Obama’s ideological temperament seems close to my own. His policy ideas are about as sound as one can reasonably expect. And his political skills are so good that it’s fun to watch, in the same way that it’s fun to watch someone who is [...]

ETG writes in the comments section:
I have thought for some time that this is nowhere near a conservative administration. It is fundamentally fascist to it’s core. That they call themselves conservative is only going to blot whatever honor is left in that movement.
It’s clear that the anti-tax, anti-environment conservative movement of Goldwater and Reagan [...]

I read in the paper today that the GOP wants to become the environmentally friendly party. Hilariously, they want to do this by drilling for more oil.
Senate Republicans aim to undercut Democrats’ claim to be the environmentally conscious party by combining their own conservation message [sic] with a longstanding push for more oil drilling. [...]
The [...]

This is completely unfair, but also hilarious.

One candidate is the a son of a famous father. He divorced his first wife in order to marry a wealthy beer heiress, and then used his second wife’s money to go into politics. He’s running on a platform that offers huge tax cuts for wealthy heiresses, and “adversity builds character” for everyone else.
According to [...]