Dick Morris, Bill Clinton’s shrewd former adviser, explains that support for the Wall Street bailout killed McCain’s chances of being elected president:

“Had McCain voted against the bailout of Wall Street firms and backed the Republican alternative, there is no question in my mind that he would have won. After calling attention to his “suspension” of his campaign, McCain compliantly and supinely embraced the Bush bailout backed by the Democrats. America was waiting for him to speak out against excessive government spending…

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Lies multiply in election years.  Legal commentator John Rosenberg notes that he “received in the mail today a glossy, large flyer from the ‘Democratic Party of Virginia’ saying, with many incorrect examples, that ‘John McCain opposes equal pay for women.’” 

In reality, neither McCain nor Obama has ever suggested that equal pay for women is a bad idea.  Instead, they disagree on what the legal deadline should be for bringing pay discrimination claims.  Obama just thinks the deadline for suing should be…

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I live in Arlington, Virginia, a liberal stronghold.  Children are told that “Republicans are ‘bad and evil’” at school.  On a daily basis, my home gets called by the Obama campaign’s get-out-the-vote effort, seeking to talk to my wife, my 18-month old daughter, and imaginary people like Hassan Bader.  We also get calls from a variety of liberal interest groups.  (On the bright side, living in a liberal enclave means we don’t have to put up with any robocalls from the McCain campaign, which…

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That liberals wish libertarians to go away is, perhaps, not surprising. But the issue is much more serious than even Jonah Goldberg realizes. McCain’s championing of “getting the monied interests out of politics” and Obama’s pledge to eliminate their influence both amount to an attempt to eliminate economic interest groups (and, indeed, interest groups that are in any way allied with economic interests - such as independent free market groups) from politics. But, politics is about interest group influences. If economic interest…

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