things are looking up

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U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) slams McCain for picking Sarah Palin for VP: "She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything." (AP)

FiveThirtyEight.com reports on the state of the race and asks: Is McCain In Trouble?  (Hint: yes, they think he is.)

"This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.... As a cause, conservatism may be dead. But as a stance, as a way of making judgments in a complex and difficult world, I believe it is very much alive in the instincts and predispositions of a liberal named Barack Obama." --Wick Allison, former publisher of the National Review.

(The fuckin' National Review!)

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I am not surprised at all that Wick Allison would say such things. I'm a conservative myself, and I left the G.O.P. in 1980 when Reagan brought in his theocrats, his upside-down Keynesians (hint: subsidizing the top of the economy instead of the bottom is not the opposite), and his utter disregard for the traditionally conservative support for the right to privacy.

So yes, the "neocons" are not conservative at all. And I'm glad that someone with indisputable conservative credentials is saying it.