John Gorenfeld

Polls are all higgledy-piggledy in the crucial state of Ohio. That’s the state where McCain and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, are worried about taking blame if a German company, DHL, shuts down a shipping hub at an airport in Wilmington, OH, where 8,600 Ohioans work. That’s because, as long ago as 2003, McCain and [...]

From the Washington Post: On McCain’s Web site, visitors are invited to "Spread the Word" about the presumptive Republican nominee by sending campaign-supplied comments to blogs and Web sites under the visitor’s screen name. The site offers sample comments ("John McCain has a comprehensive economic plan . . .") and a list of dozens of [...]

♦ Karl Rove says McCain is spreading fear and doubt about his opponent, like he should be doing right now. Suggests a "Where’s The Beef" moment, says McCain should talk about "issues that increase Republican enthusiasm," like intrusive federal judges bent on making you go gay. [WSJ] ♦ That Moses ad hurt us, says Democrat [...]

They say nobody reads books anymore. But Dr. Jerome Corsi, the man of right-wing letters whose goofy books got Americans talking in 2004 about whether John Kerry shot himself on purpose (Unfit For Command), and in 2007 about the "coming merger with Mexico and Canada" (The Late Great U.S.A.) has just struck New York Times [...]

♦ Conservatives are worried that terrorists are trying to become public school teachers in California. [Free Republic] ♦ Is this what we’ve come to, that there are wire stories about McCain appearing to shift his position on tire pressure? [Reuters] ♦ Four debates are on, starting September 26 in Mississippi and running through October 15. [...]

Here’s the candidate’s reply to being made fun of by Gov. Tim Pawlenty and others over tire inflation. Do the Republicans know something about tire gauges that we don’t, that they would make such a big deal out of this? Is there some kind of game-changing study of tire inflation they plan to spring on [...]

"Whitey Need Not Apply" was the name of a typically overwrought Pat Buchanan column I read over the weekend, about how life under Obama would be like that movie White Man’s Burden, with Pat in the John Travolta role, oppressed by a mirror universe version of Jim Crow. And because Pat is fond of predicting [...]

♦ The degrading life of Cindy McCain continues as her husband volunteers her for a topless biker beauty contest during a campaign stop in Sturgis, SD. But what will the Religious Right think? [HuffPost, Daily Doubt] ♦ Dick Cheney will be taking his sneer elsewhere on the day of the GOP convention. Meanwhile, TheNextCheney.com, the [...]

"By injecting itself into the state’s effort to resolve the Martin Luther King holiday issue, the NFL has muddled an effort that is Arizona’s to resolve alone, without outside interference." —John McCain, USA Today, March 21, 1991 Above, a woman at a campaign stop August 1, 2008 in Panama City, FL asks Sen. McCain what [...]

♦ One of America’s most beloved fantasy authors, Jerome Corsi–who wrote that Swift Boat book slandering John Kerry, and says that "RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers"–is back with a new book, Obama Nation, that deals with Kenya, whose tensions Sen. Obama, at the behest of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, tried to calm. Corsi makes believe that [...]