The Daily Show has a field day with Sarah Palin’s town.
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The movie is just as bad as the Bush presidency. Josh Brolin gives an inspired performance, but most of the film falls flat.
The film works best when focusing on Bush’s life story and his rise to the presidency. His relationship with his father was central to his life, and his interactions with his parents and Laura inspired the more interesting parts of the film.
Regarding his presidency, however, all we see are caricatures of the people around him. Scenes are invented based upon public statements we saw in other contexts, but they seem forced and inauthentic. Historians can rightfully criticize the roles of administrations officials like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, but the portrayals of these men in the film are ridiculous.
Someday, we’ll see a serious movie that delves into the disasterous Bush presidency and the march to war, but “W” is not that movie. Oliver Stone goes for a lighter touch, but he doesn’t deliver enough laughs to make this a successfult comedy. In the end, it’s mostly a waste of time.
More Republicans are starting to turn away from John McCain.
He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party’s nominee.
“He is not the McCain I endorsed,” said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. “He keeps saying, ‘Who is Barack Obama?’ I would ask the question, ‘Who is John McCain?’ because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.
“I’m disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues.”
Milliken, a lifelong Republican, is among some past leaders from the party’s moderate wing voicing reservations and, in some cases, opposition to McCain’s candidacy.
The polls have shifted dramatically over the past several weeks, as Republican support has fallen as a result of the financial crisis. Barack Obama has picked up support in many battleground states, but many Senate races have also become competitive.
The question remains, however, as to whether this bump can last for the next four weeks, and whether Democrats can win enough seats to hit the 60-seat threshold.
Meanwhile, VoteVets.org is back with scathing ads targeting Republican Senators who voted against providing modern body armor to all U.S. troops in Iraq. These ads were very effective in 2006, helping to unseat Senators like George Allen in Virginia. The ad below has been updated to target Elizabeth Dole, who is now behind in her North Carolina Senate race.
Despite Sarah Palin’s horrific performance in interviews, and her simplistic answers in the debate, many conservatives are still defending her.
Andrew Sullivan has an interesting theory explaining this phenomenon.
What I think has happened to some otherwise very brilliant and perceptive people is that they have become so hostile to “liberal pundits” or “Hollywood liberals”, that their reactions are really reactions not to Palin herself but to those criticizing her and the selection of her. These people are anti-anti-Palin and if forced to be pro-Palin, they’d have a very hard time explaining it. Actually, Camille is pro-Obama, so she doesn’t have to go that far. But just because liberals are annoying and Hollywood liberals make you want to vomit doesn’t mean Palin is qualified to be vice-president. Look: Tim Robbins is about the only person who could make me support McCain. But I’m not stupid enough to let my loathing of idiotic Hollywood liberals affect my judgment of this farce of a veep candidate.
I don’t think Palin is dumb; she is just proudly ignorant, a cynical opportunist and a pathological liar.
This makes sense. In the heat of a campaign, people get very emotional about supporting their own side. It makes it very difficult to acknowledge the obvious – that Sarah Palin is a joke of a candidate. Perhaps when the election is over many conservatives will sober up and acknowledge this as well. On the other hand, some are talking about Sarah Palin in 2012. Of course this is silly. She would never survive a protracted primary season. But this is the best thing that could happen to the Democrats, though it might not be the best thing for the country. If the GOP loses this year, they will need to rebuild the party, and they’ll need to do it with qualified candidates who can enunciate a governing philosophy for our times from the conservative perspective. Sarah Palin cannot do this.
Regardless of who is in power, we need a robust party in opposition to keep the ruling party honest. The Democrats didn’t live up to this responsibility in the run-up to the Iraq War.
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