Bush is a drag, even in Virginia. |
Bush isn't helping either Republican nominee. |
But his greatest problem is that it is hard to see him as offering voters anything other than George W. Bush's third term. And even Bush Republicans realize that the American people don't want that. |
But right now, he is not in a good position. That we know. |
Can he attract the 90-percenters? Or will they drift to someone else with a better chance of winning? |
Clearly, Americans love golden oldies, but this golden oldie will have much more difficulty hitting the charts this time around. |
Democrats certainly have no intention of backing him, and the Republicans — at least many of the Republicans — sense that he is walking wounded or walking dead. |
Democrats understand that if they are going to win in 2008, they have got to select reasonable candidates who can match the Republicans in experience on foreign policy and the war on terror. They have no choice. And that's Richardson's big ace not possessed by most of the other candidates. |
Dole could be blamed for any losses, and that is unfair. |
Editorial endorsements are dinosaurs. The vast majority of the public don't read editorials. |
Every American is going to be reminded in these hearings that every vote on the Supreme Court matters enormously. They tend to disagree with one another, they tend to factionalize, so each new justice has a major, really a tremendous impact on individual lives, on the exercise of our rights and our responsibilities. |
Every time we have a new videotape of bin Laden, it reminds people of the administration's argument that (Iraq) is connected to the war on terror, whether it really is or isn't. |
Expect this protracted race to get down and dirty, with both parties yet again spending freely in Southern Indiana media markets. |
For a first-year senator, that was a lot for him to try to chew on. It was a pretty successful bite. |
For Bush, it's a manmade political disaster on top of a natural disaster. The Bush administration could not have done much worse, it really couldn't. They appeared detached and slow to realize the seriousness of the situation. |