“…he will still be able to offer “change,” even if it is just the standard change of switching from one political party to the other. Outside of issues of race, we’re not electing a transcendent figure here. We’re electing John Kerry with a hipper style and better speaking abilities.” – ASC

Perfect. I may have these words bronzed and mounted on my desk.

Somewhere along the line Obama, his campaign, and his supporters began to confuse the very real broad based public mood for change in Washington as identically equivalent to embracing the same old liberal Democratic bromides. It is not. Once we got to the litany of promises in the Denver acceptance speech, it became clear that the only change represented by his campaign is swapping the same old partisan Republican politics for the same old partisan Democratic politics. That opened the door for McCain/Palin.

It will be a loss if you’re blown to Oz by the hurricane. Remember: the red slippers go in the emergency bag.

Drop the insults or you’re gone.

Sure, but so what? Two weeks ago (and for 14 months preceding) it was Obama and his halo on every magazine cover.

*Puts on non-partisan hat* The real danger here for Democrats is NOT the attention Palin is getting. It’s the fact that they are deliberately following all the Palin stories and taking their aim off of McCain.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that looked a lot like Republican strategery.

Palin isn’t running for President. McCain is.

Palin is just the distraction.

*Takes non-partisan hat off* Why you no good, scum-sucking, liberal, douchebag, cheese-eating, surrender-monkey, son-of-a-…