Cynical Nation

The reality is that what Sullivan wrote is accurate. McCain has no integrity. He is a disgraced individual. Sorry if you have hard time seeing the obvious, but that's your problem :-)

P.S. Cynical nation with a lipstick is still cynical nation :-)

McCain's recent ads have been revolting.

McCain's recent ads are just politics as usual.

You know what's really kind of funny, that these petty squabbles are taking attention away from the Democratic Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, Charles Rangel's multiple corruption scandals and ethics violations; FIRST, Rangel (who has an estimated net worth of around $1.2 Million, grabbed four rent stabilized apartments "paid a total rent of $3,894 monthly in 2007 for the four apartments at Lenox Terrace, a 1,700-unit luxury development of six towers, with doormen, that is described in real estate publications as Harlem’s most prestigious address.

The current market-rate rent for similar apartments in Mr. Rangel’s building would total $7,465 to $8,125 a month, according to the Web site of the owner, the Olnick Organization.

“There are families who manage to get two, when one tenant marries another, things like that,” said Dov Treiman, a lawyer who publishes The Housing Court Reporter, a legal trade publication. “But I’ve never heard of any tenant managing to get four.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html

SECOND, and even more recently it's come out that he's evaded taxes for over fifteen years on a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic;

Rangel's lawyer recently admitted "that the congressman had failed to disclose more than $75,000 in rental income from the vacation home in the Dominican Republic and that he had paid no interest on the villa's mortgage."

"He is also under investigation for using his congressional stationery to solicit funds for a local college's academic center that will bear his name."

http://mobile.latimes.com/detail.jsp?key=180041&rc=nation&full=1

I felt the same way about balloon juice. At first I found him funny, but he lost his mind over Schiavo and has since claimed he's a "Democrat"

I'm glad you said that, Rachel. I feel exactly the same way. John Cole of Balloon Juice and I used to link to one another, but now he's gone off the deep end, IMO.

I don't mind that these guys switched sides -- really, I don't. Indeed, the thing I always liked about both Sully and Cole was their intellectual honesty and their willingness to look critically at their own side.

But then when they switched, all that went out the window. They became just the kind of knee-jerk partisans they had always ridiculed. They went from being smart, thoughtful, fair-minded writers to Kos Kidz. Sad.

So I guess the "Ace of Spades" site represents intellectual honesty and the willingness to look critically at their own side?

I dunno. Both the Ace of Spades site and the Balloon Juice site were new to me this morning, but, having just scrolled through both, I don't see how only the latter is off the deep end.

>So I guess the "Ace of Spades" site represents intellectual honesty and the willingness to look critically at their own side?

No, never said it. Ace's blog is a guilty pleasure of mine, but it's completely partisan and makes no bones about it. There are many other such sites on my regular reading list, both left and right.

I read different blogs for different reasons, and never meant to imply that *only* "fair and balacned" blogs are worthy of a read.

But Ace continues to be what he always was, and there's a place for that in my reading list. Sully and Cole once filled an important niche in my reading list too. Now they don't. That's a loss to me.

Sometimes you're in the mood for junk food (sorry, Ace) and sometimes a nice steak. Well two of my favorite steak houses are now grubby little sidewalk vendors.

Hey if Andrew Sullivan can get me decent coffee and a chocolate glazed donut for just a buck..

But then when they switched, all that went out the window. They became just the kind of knee-jerk partisans they had always ridiculed. They went from being smart, thoughtful, fair-minded writers to Kos Kidz. Sad.

Absolutely. Changing is what people do. It's jumping off the deep end that gets people annoyed, esp us blogsters

"They went from being smart, thoughtful, fair-minded writers to Kos Kidz. Sad." (BNJ)


WhooooHoooo!

Barry just bitch-slapped the Kos Kidz!

Sorry BW, but that I take a perverse pleasure in that sort of thing.

The Kos Kidz are almost single-handedly responsible for the recent McCain-Palin surge via the lame attempt by some Kos Kids to slime Palin personally ("Bristol Palin is Trig's real Mom"). They started the sliming that has tarred the MSM as "an enemy of middle America" again and that has, in turn, hurt Barack Obama badly.

Why else ya think Obama went to Bill O'Reilly for the interview?

The BEST and fairest interview done with Obama to date, bar none, by the way.

The extreme-Left has badly damaged the Democratic Party and there's only one possible solution - the Dems must divest themselves of the netroots and its far-Left kooks, people like Michael Moore, Al Franken, and Al Gore and embrace its Southern Conservative roots.

I am hopeful for a McCain win this November (despite my being non-plussed about McCain himself) for ONE reason - THIS may be the far-Left's Waterloo.

If they can't win with a charming, charismatic and articulate spokesman (B. Obama) against an old, far too moderate, soft-on-illegal immigration "pseudo-maverick" like McCain, then there's absolutely NO CHANCE for any Left-of-Center candidate going forward!

This election COULD doom the far-Left to obscurity.

Ohhhh THANKYOU Kos Kids!!!