Category: The Dish

The Christianist right is a liberal hallucination, argues Daniel Casse. In his dreams.

So the lesson from Michigan is … a Republican who tells the truth about economics and resists left-liberal industrial policy gets pummeled by … conservatives; and the guy who proposes a Michigan Marshall Plan is the champion of the mainstream right.

John Cole and Ezra Klein think I’ve lost it on Clinton. Yep: it happened around 1993. Thanks for the input, though.

That would be an interesting twist to his campaign.

This parody – originating on the web – just got picked up for small screen distribution. It deserves to. Think: The Office with Spartans.

Blake Hounshell is too kind.

Yglesias explains:

This is a helpful example of how a journalist can be useless to all parties.

Paul Waldman unloaded memorably last October.

In ten weeks, his support has doubled. He now leads Clinton 36 – 32. Among African-Americans, he now has a 3:1 lead over Clinton. Since the NC primary is a long way off, this may not mean much except that the black vote in the South should not be under-estimated in a Democratic primary.

A must-read from Julian Sanchez and Dave Weigel on who actually wrote the Ron Paul Newsletters. Those unversed in libertarian history get a thorough briefing. It seems clear to me that Paul is not a racist, and wrote none of the offensive material, but he relied on a racist newsletter for funds in the past, and at best turned a blind eye. Money quote:

Ron Paul may not be a racist, but he became complicit in a strategy of pandering to racists—and taking "moral responsibility" for that now means more than just uttering the phrase. It means openly grappling with his own past—acknowledging who said what, and why. Otherwise he risks damaging not only his own reputation, but that of the philosophy to which he has committed his life.

In the wake of Michigan, John Heilemann looks again at Giuliani’s strategy. Not entirely persuasive, but we’re all guessing at this point, aren’t we?