If you only look at one thing that I write this week, make this it and follow my advice. John Heilemann at New York Magazine has a wonderful opinion piece out on the state of the presidential campaign. It is spot-on and only two pages in length. Do yourself a favor and read it.
2 August 2008
3 August 2008 Addition: More on this from Jonathan Alter of Newsweek can be found here. I agree with his take on where the McCain campaign has decided to go. However, I disagree that it is a split from the McCain of the past, in so far that he has at any time had honor in the political realm. The idea of McCain as maverick is a myth. McCain has always been a man who believes what he believes most strongly. It is simply that what he believes changes as do his needs. You (McCain) can't have honor when you hire in 2008 the man (Steve Schmidt) who helped Carl Rove savage you in 2000.
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