Today’s Reading List
Mitt, Marriage, Massachusetts. My opinion, he pulls this off it would go a long way towards erasing the “too left” cloud that hangs over his head. He doesn’t and it just looks like posturing.
Video of the 700 Club appearance. The RealClearPolitics Blog responds.
Jed Babbin guest-hosted the Michael Medved show yesterday and riffed on this piece he did in ’05.
Wartime presidents must lead their people. In this, Mr. Bush has fallen flat. It’s not enough to say we must complete the mission. It’s not nearly enough to repeat the truism that our soldiers are performing bravely, with skill and humaneness not seen before in history. As important as those facts are, they pale in comparison to what we aren’t told: What is the mission? Who are our enemies, and where are they? How are we going to attack and defeat them? What, specifically, are they trying to do and how are we going to stop them? We know none of those things from the President. To say what he says again and again — without saying much else — leaves wartime opinion-making to Vladimir Putin, Russell Feingold, Chuck Hagel and Cindy Sheehan.
Is this a function of being a great business manager and coming to politics only late? I would call this managing the war instead of leading the war effort. Would Romney have the same problem?
Romney and Pataki compared – Pataki loses.
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