Andrew Sullivan
SHARPTONISM WATCH: "The top one percent in this country pays very much less than ten percent, very much less than five percent." - Al Sharpton, cited by John Stossel. Of course, the top one percent pay 34 percent of income tax revenues.
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"FAR MORE LIBERAL...: ... than any of the other candidates." That's how Sid Blumenthal describes John Kerry. I would not be surprised if New Hampshire deflates him a little.
ROVE'S INVITEES: An interesting aside in a National Review Online piece by one Janice Shaw Crouse, of the hard right Concerned Women for America:
I watched the speech in an auditorium in the White House with an invited group of conservative opinion leaders.
Here's a challenge to an enterprising journalist: whom else did Karl Rove invite to watch the president throw some red meat to the evangelical base? It would be instructive, I think, of whom this administration really cares about.
BROOKS ON EDWARDS: "What John Edwards had going for him [in Iowa] is first of all he's the best campaigner I've seen since Bill Clinton. His speech is the most fantastic stump speech. I followed it around four or five times just because it's so much fun. You see the crowds. They go crazy. The best moment in the speech. He's talking about himself as a trial lawyer. He said I was this little trial lawyer and went up against the corporate interests, the corporate lawyers, the best money can buy, dignified people. You can hear them thinking Republicans. Then he says 'and they looked at me and said what's this guy doing in the courtroom with us? We're the best and the brightest.' Then he turns to the crowd and says, 'you know I beat them and I beat them and I beat them' and the crowd is going crazy because they know this is the guy who can beat the corporate Republicans. Its a fantastic, its the best moment. And that's just...he's just a fantastic....the Republicans want to get overconfidence cure, go to a John Edwards rally." - David Brooks, on the Newshour. This is getting to be the conventional wisdom among the press. It bodes well for the John Grisham from a boy band. |
