All That Is Necessary

Tag: McCain

  • What National Election? Electoral College Is the Only Tally That Counts

    For better or worse, we don’t have national elections in America. We have 51 state elections. Occasionally this matters a lot — just ask President Gore about his half-million-vote "national victory" in 2000.

  • DADT: Some Days It’s Not Easy Being a Socially Liberal Republican

    For national security and economic reasons I generally vote Republican, but I’m quite liberal on social issues.  For example, my support for same-sex marriage equality puts me to the left of Barack “marriage-is-between-a-man-and-a-woman” Obama. This occasionally leads to cognitive dissonance, when people I otherwise admire take positions I find offensive.  I voted for Jon Corzine […]

  • Bragging Rights vs. Governing Rights

    Neo-neocon sparked a raucous conversation in the comments of a brief post about the followup to a mischievous Zogby poll that surveyed Obama voters about their level of knowledge of various statements, and reported that the Obama voters surveyed got questions wrong more often than if they had simply guessed randomly. I say it’s a […]

  • A McCain Voter Finds Silver Linings

    Differences on policy issues should not, on this day, obscure the marvel that has occurred. A man who in his early childhood could not use certain public restrooms has just been elected to the most powerful office in the world. The 109-year-old daughter of a slave lived long enough to help elect a black president. […]

  • Endorsement: Vote for McCain…

    … and pray for his continued good health. I guess if I want to be a titan of the blogosphere I should take this more seriously, but I’m tired of the damned election. Even the much-anticipated All That Is Necessary endorsement will not be enough to help McCain in New Jersey. My collected election posts […]

  • A McCain Voter Contemplates an Obama Presidency

    I was going to write a poignant, insightful post about why this McCain voter is undismayed by the prospect of an Obama victory, but Peggy Noonan beat me to it. Saves me a few pixels, I suppose. An excerpt: A great moment: When the press was hitting hard on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old […]

  • Wall Street Compensation in the Bailout Era

    As bonus time approaches, Wall Street firms are trying to balance the need to retain key executives against concern about the “optics” of giving boatloads of bailout money to the people who arguably created the need for the bailout. It’s easy to sneer at what passes for frugality on Wall Street when it comes to […]

  • Catfight in The Corner! Lopez vs. Parker

    Welcome, Andrew Sullivan and 3QuarksDaily readers. While you’re here, I hope you’ll take a look around and leave a comment! The “Labels” section in the right column can be used as a menu. I’m a big fan of National Review Online’s group blog, called The Corner. It has been described as “the Id of Conservatism,” […]

  • Stick a Fork in Mac, He’s Toast

    Something not quite right metaphorically in that headline, but I’m too tired to figure it out. To win, Obama needed to refrain from burning an American flag onstage, and he more than met that challenge. He looked more Presidential than McCain. I’m trying as hard as I can to find reasons to stay on the […]

  • The Allure of Going Nuclear in the Late Innings

    Losing the Presidential race has to be even worse than losing the World Series. If you lose the World Series, you at least get to put up a banner proclaiming that you were the League Champion for the year. Your hometown throws you a consolation rally, and you start talking about the future (“hey, we’re […]