Hold down the Clinton comments, will ya, people? Old news. And it just stirs the pot.
Some comments from "The Note"
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As for the president, he is only two or so news cycles away from being faced with comparisons to his dad (and threatened with the possibility that in this Punk'd/Internet word, someone might actually show the video of 41 losing it on the Japanese PM, at least streamed on the Web).
And if BC04 Republicans can't believe their delight at how nasty and negative things are getting between the Democrats, the Democrats can't believe how much morphing of 43 into 41 is still going on.
There's the notion that the election day economy is already "baked in the cake" (both Will and Gigot have now trotted that out on Sunday mornings), and there ain't nothing a President can do.
There is the resistance to open campaigning, beyond the Rose Garden (They will laugh and laugh and laugh about that at Olive's today.)
John Snow IS starting to look a bit like Nick Brady around the eyes.
And the globe-trotting Don Evans is turning positively Mosbacherian in the eyes of Democrats.
On the other hand, we think The General said it best in the desert:
" … I think it's a little — I think it's really embarrassing that a group of candidates up here are working on changing the leadership in this country and can't get their own story straight."
In candidate rhetoric and campaign e-mail, the gloves are SO off on the donkey side, with Dr. Dean's particular brand of "I'm not going to attack my opponents like they are attacking me, at least not in this sentence, but get ready for a shift in the next sentence" getting the "hypocrisy" label from some rivals.
Nobody is predicting (yet) that Bush will open the Good Doctor up like a soft peanut, but it sure feels like we will be at that rhetorical level by the time we get to Dick Clark's New Year's Rocking Eve.
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