[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They have consistently maintained, and supported it in detail, that they are conservatives first and Republicans second.

They have fiercely denounced the party when it has strayed from conservative principles. McCain, who has co-sponsored liberal legislation and courted and flattered Beltway journalists, has been a longtime target.

[JennysCool]

Hillary's gonads must be sending out sci-fi rays that paralyze the paleo-feminist mind -- because her career, attached to her husband's flapping coattails, has sure been heavy on striking pious attitudes but ultra-light on concrete achievements.

Great line.

[Rudder]

...conservatives marshaled by leading radio hosts have hotly rebelled against the onrushing nomination of Sen. John McCain...

Those "leading radio hosts" have followed, not marshaled, the conservatives.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Another piece from Salon....FR thread:

McCain apes Bush on Iraq, as Dems stand passively by

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His hard-liner stance should doom McCain with most voters, but unless Democrats put the war back on top of the national agenda, he might get away with it.

[47samurai]

May be politically incorrect to say so, but I love Camille Paglia. She never spins, but speaks the truth as she sees it.. I disagree with her political positions on almost everything, but her I respect her honesty. Kind of like a female Lieberman.

Go Camille