Tuesday, January 31, 2012

The Establishment Strikes Back

Reagan vs The Establishment

9 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Kraut not too happy.

Tecumseh said...

York does a tactical analysis. Bottom line:

Romney is like a doctor using massive doses of chemotherapy and radiation to kill a cancer -- the Gingrich threat -- but trying to spare the patient, which is his own candidacy. It might be close by the time this is all over.

Tecumseh said...

And a reprise of Kraut's theme:

Romney's message remains the weakest part of his candidacy. And that means, despite his skill with attack ads and in debate, his campaign could still face substantial obstacles. "At bottom the Newt insurgency is fueled by the sense that Mr. Romney's tepid policy agenda reflects no fixed beliefs," the Wall Street Journal editorial page's William McGurn wrote Tuesday. "In fact, it's telling that Mr. Romney's GOP rivals are defined as non-Romneys, each standing for something lacking in the front-runner."

That "something lacking" problem has not been fixed.

Tecumseh said...

High anxiety: things have deteriorated from feisty to primal?

Tecumseh said...

Lowry: the Persians at Marathon, the French at Agincourt, the Zulus at Rorke's Drift.

Tecumseh said...

Geography vs ideology? An interesting question from a statistical viewpoint.

Tecumseh said...

Jonah Goldberg has some misgivings...

Arelcao Akleos said...

" Lowry: the Persians at Marathon, the French at Agincourt, the Zulus at Rorke's Drift."

The integrity of NRO at Lowry's hands.

Arelcao Akleos said...

"Jonah Goldberg has some misgivings.."

Why? What could be possibly go wrong with Harvard's Idiocracy??