Today on the Dish, Andrew loved Ron Paul's attempt to make it a two-man race of ideas (with the help of a pithy reader and some sympathetic writers), saw conservatives opening up to Paul, labelled the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist terrorism, went after the NYT for refusing to outright do the same and defended himself on the point against readers, remembered the past 10 years of Gitmo, and caught Mitt in a lie about his gay rights record. We compiled reax to Romney's romp in New Hampshire, looked to South Carolina for his Lee Atwater moment, thought the primary schedule might hurt the GOP with Hispanics (Florida notwithstanding), saw more evidence of a GOP enthusiasm problem, kept tabs on pundit and reader debates over the Bain days, and wondered what the hell Perry and Gingrich thought they were doing in the race.
Iran's Hormuz hawkishness was counterproductive, the case to strike Iran lacked a compelling endgame, Russia enabled Assad's bloodthirst, Ike seemed (contra Andrew's view) to be something of an interventionist, and Scotland may have wanted out of the UK. Employer-based healthcare limited your ability to fire your insurance company, layoffs weren't firings, the GOP hamstrung the IRS, Wall Street was (huge shock here) unpopular, rich people shoplifted, we lived in a time of short-term jobs, people thought about giving up on the stock market, and one man boldly proposed to save the economy with free ponies. The History Channel failed at, er, history, burglars stole computers, mothers absorbed baby DNA, pot was kinda good for you, a dude took a self-portrait every day for 13 years, AP credits were debated, and readers kept on discussing Amtrak and conservative environmentalism.
Attack Ad of the Day here, Hewitt Nominee here, Quote for the Day here, AAA here, VFYW here (with neat reup from yesterday's contest winner here), Face of the Day here, and MHB here.
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