AZ Politics

The long knives are out as the GOP civil war has already begun

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie : These guys don't even wait for the body to be buried first. The post-mortems for the McCain campaign have already begun,Chris Cilizza blog: McCain Campaign Post-Mortem.  In a New York Times Magazine article by Robert Draper on Sunday The Making (and Remaking and Remaking) of John McCain, Draper takes the first cut … Read more

“There is an alignment of elites taking place…”

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by David Safier Christopher Buckley, conservative, novelist, essayist and son of William F., recently said he's voting for Obama. The right is piling on, so he's fighting back. In an essay on The Daily Beast, he goes after Rush Limbaugh. Buckley actually likes Limbaugh. Go figure. But now that Buckley is the object of the Rush-man's scorn, … Read more

Conservatives Jumping Ship: Updating the List

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by David Safier I was going to write about these lastest Republican ship jumpers one by one, but when I got ready to post about one, another always seemed to pop up. So here, in no particular order, are the former stalwarts who have joined the McCain Mutiny and paddled over to the U.S.S. Obama. … Read more

Rowrrr! Diva cat fight erupts between McCain and Palin camps

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: There can only be one prima donna (hence the prima), and that is John McCain. But Sarah Palin is the ambitious understudy who sees herself as the rising star diva in the GOP, and the two of them are turning nasty on one another as their campaign stumbles and falls. (Right: McCain … Read more