What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn’t happen in 2005, and ‘06, and ‘07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind and the carrying out of the war, over immigration, spending and the size of government – has passed. What two years ago would have been honorable and wise will now look craven. They’re stuck.
— This is a quote from Peggy Noonan. The same
Peggy Noonan who was Ronald Reagan’s and George H.W. Bush’s speech writer and who helped “save” the re-election campaign of George W. Bush in 2004. Source:
Declarations - WSJ.com
From Recession? Not So Fast, Say Some - WSJ.com:
“A couple months ago it seemed like we were on the abyss,” said Jay Bryson, global economist with Wachovia Corp., referring to the seizing up of credit markets and the collapse of Bear Stearns. “Things have changed….The numbers we’ve seen recently haven’t been as bad as we were led to believe just a few months ago.”
Why does Clinton keep running? … She has no alternative. Just as sharks swim in order to breathe, candidates run in order to exist.
Notwithstanding the playful, even clever, writing of the editorial, it was wrong, I believe, to use language that conflates the presidential race and the sad need to euthanize a female horse, ending with this sentence: ‘There’s no reason to wait until August to put Clinton, and the rest of us, out of our misery.’
