Monday, January 14, 2008

A Study in Contrasts...And Other Random Thoughts

I wish I was more of a Civil War Buff (like Keith Hernandez) so I could find some more historically-appropriate metaphors here, but the South Carolina primary this coming Saturday is shaping up to be quite the battleground.

An article in The Politico this morning lays out how John McCain and Mike Huckabee are going after the different conventional-wisdom wings of the GOP base there.

On his first day campaigning in South Carolina after his New Hampshire victory
last week, McCain was flanked by cadets at the Citadel. Huckabee, on the same
day, stopped by a pregnancy center aimed at talking women out of abortion and
also converting clients to Christianity — 56 last year.


I was checking out a little bit of C-SPAN's continuing campaign coverage this weekend and Mitt's got a new hat on. Having apparently given up his claim on the social conservatives to Huck and others, he's now trying to dress up like an economic populist and telling the people of Michigan that their future is in restoring their lost manufacturing jobs.

And people call him a snake oil salesman! Shame!

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