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By: Présidentielle américaine: Quand les rats commencent à quitter le navire (When the going gets tough, …) « jcdurbant

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:44:29 +0000

[...] Jumping Ship… Victor Davis Hanson October 10, 2008 [...]

By: Political Party Poop

Political Party Poop — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:42:27 +0000

[...] think it’s worth saying something further about the way figures like Mark Levin, Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, and others have responded to those right-of-center pundits who have harshly criticized the [...]

By: US Elections - Part Deux - Page 2 - The Prophecy Forums

US Elections - Part Deux - Page 2 - The Prophecy Forums — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:04:12 +0000

[...] Victor Davis Hanson at his (constant) best: A couple of thoughts: the George Bush, Sr. / Willie Horton campaign was far tougher; so were the Bush 2000/2004 efforts. If anything, McCain’s campaign is subdued in comparison to what we’ve seen on both sides in past years. Indeed, McCain as a vicious campaigner is a complete fabrication, but, again, a brilliant subterfuge on the part of Team Obama that, in fact, has run, via appendages, the far more vicious race. Obama and his surrogates have repeatedly engaged in racial politics (as Bill Clinton lamented when in fury he denounced the “race card”); when there was never evidence that McCain was using race as a wedge issue, it was clear Obama most surely was–preemptively, on at least two occasions, warning Americans he would soon be the victim of opposition racial stereotyping. His surrogates like Biden and those in the Senate continue to link legitimate worries about OBama’s past with racism. Second, for about 3 months all we’ve heard are references to McCain’s age, with adjectives and phrases like confused, can’t remember any more, disturbed, lost his bearings, etc. Moreover, so far, McCain supporters have not broken into Biden’s email, or accused Biden of being a Nazi, or accused anyone of not bearing one of their own children, or photo-shopped grotesque pictures of Obama on the Internet (as in the Atlantic magazine case). I don’t think deranged McCain supporters in Hollywood or television almost daily are quoted as damning Obama in unusually crude terms. Nor are white racist ministers calling McCain a ‘messiah’ or McCain operatives fraudulently swarming voter registration centers. And on and on. __________________ For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ "Chuck ‘im out, the brute!" But it’s "Savior of ‘is country" when the guns begin to shoot. – Rudyard Kipling [...]

By: Steynian 270 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 270 « Free Canuckistan! — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:08:19 +0000

[...] Victor Davis Hanson [...]

By: I’m a Republican, but I’m Supporting Barack Obama | Flaming Politics -- Here. Queer. American - News & Commentary on American Politics and Lesbian , Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:57:07 +0000

[...] other disaffected Republicans, I could settle for McCain. Or I could “jump ship,” as one pundit calls it, and support Barack Obama. I’ve decided to support Obama. George Bush is leaving [...]

By: Right Angles » Blog Archive » Where’s David Gergen when you really need him

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:55:29 +0000

[...] Gergen got his BVD’s in a knot over a stray comment or two at a McCain-Palin rally of 5,000 (comments that, as things unfold, [...]

By: Working The Refs | PoliticsMuch.com

Working The Refs | PoliticsMuch.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:49:06 +0000

[...] VDH writes and people ought to listen. Of course, he is quite right in pointing out that Obama has prepped the rhetorical contest so that any criticism of him is met with overwrought expressions of concern and criticism, not to mention the now-expected tut-tutting that the McCain of 2008 is not the McCain we saw in 2000. The major reason why McCain is no longer a media darling is that he is now the Republican nominee and no longer a foil to the hated George W. Bush, but since this cannot be said out loud, pundits pretend that the scales have suddenly fallen from their eyes, that McCain has “changed,” that if only they could vote for the McCain of 2000, they would, etc. [...]

By: Blogs For Victory » Of Rats and Men

Blogs For Victory » Of Rats and Men — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:13:58 +0000

[...] 12th, 2008 at 07:14pm Mark Noonan Victor Davis Hanson on those few, sad conservatives who have decided to pander to The One in hopes of getting some crumbs from the [...]

By: Radio Vice Online » Why Conservative Intellectuals Are Jumping Ship

Radio Vice Online » Why Conservative Intellectuals Are Jumping Ship — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:52:22 +0000

[...] This is, perhaps, the best analysis I have read regarding the sudden race to the exits by conservative intellectuals. By Victor David Hanson … its a must read. [...]

By: Obama: The Great Moderate-Conservative Hope?

Obama: The Great Moderate-Conservative Hope? — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:05:10 +0000

[...] point in the near future, I will write about why I as a moderate Republican support McCain, but this article by Victor Davis Hanson makes some very good points. He give some reason why some on the right might be jumping ship: [...]