Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Ex-Pats |
| Published: September 5, 2008, 2:02 am |
| Tags: open thread, john mccain, campaign 2008 |
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Peter Baker writes at The New York Times: The Party in Power, Running as if It Weren’t After watching two political conclaves the last two weeks, it would be easy to be confused about which was really the gathering of the opposition. As Senator John McCain accepted the Republican nomination for president, he and his supporters sounded the call of insurgents seeking to topple the establishment, even though their party heads the establishment. This was, of course, part Mr. McCain’s nature and part political calculation. It was also part history. For the first time since 1952, the party holding the White House has nominated someone other than the sitting president or vice president, someone without a vested interest in running on continuity, and at a moment when the party finds it difficult to defend its record from the last eight years. The effort to position Mr. McCain and the Republicans as the true agents of change benefited this week from his selection of Gov. Sarah [ Full article ] |
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