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John McCain made the mistake of not waiting for Bob Schieffer to invite him to Bill Ayers and ACORN tonight. I was frankly surprised that he went scorched-earth on Obama so immediately over Ayers, and it was McCain's worst performance.

A Republican consultant gets some bad news from a focus group:

72.  A two year campaign, endless speechifying, air travel, hotel rooms, time zone changes.  Unbelieveable stress.  I really just think McCain is wore out.  Hell, I would be.

Back when Dennis Miller was funny, he said of Reagan “He’s 72! And he has access to the button?  My Grandpa is 72, we don’t let him near the remote!”

From Huffington Post:

As I watch the campaigns of Obama and McCain play out, I can't help but remember those fateful words uttered by Reagan that devastated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 run for the White House:

"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
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In its cover story on Sarah Palin, Newsweek gives an excellent rebuttal to the charge that her critics are simply "elitists" who can't empathize with ordinary Americans:

So, I've been in Washington DC on business that past couple of days.

I love Facebook.  I love that in the last month, I’ve reconnected with a ton of people I haven’t even as much as given a teeny thought to since Reagan was in office. 

I love when Democrats run as if they are the second coming of Reagan and they attack their competitors in a race as being partisan. Perfect case and point is the Rupe/ Yeager race. I admit I know neither candidate but they both talk a great game.

The above quote from McCain was not from his days just after the Keating 5, no... it was in a PBS interview from this year. [PBS “Washington Week,” 1/25/08]