Links

Frustrated trying to get your points across to under-informed republicans and independents? Then let disillusioned conservatives and/or former McCain supporters do the arguing for you.

• Wick Allison, former publisher of the National Review explains the appeal of pragmatic conservatism and how there's none of that in McCain: http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pages&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&tier=3&gid=B33A5C6E2CF04C9596A3EF81822D9F8E
  

• Alaskan conservative Dan Fagan on Palin and the claims that the Troopergate investigation is a partisan ploy: http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/528420.html
  

• Scott "Dilbert" Adams wanted to find out who the American economists prefer, so he commissioned a study: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/16/dilbert.economy/index.html
  

• Richard Cohen, an op-ed columnist of the Washington Post and a self-professed McCain fan, on the New McCain: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091502406.html
  

• The most bittersweet of them all, Elizabeth Drew, author of a 2002 book Citizen McCain and the 'Maverick' meme: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13541.html
  

 

Oh, YouTube. Won't convince many conservatives with this, but ridicule is fun when well deserved.

• McCain: "Fundamentals of the American economy are strong": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9zqn6DpZRU
  

• "Err, by fundamentals I meant the American workers!": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxg-9qcGlHY
  

• Of course he did. Does he mean these American workers? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWOZKeOauNI
  

He wasn't kidding when he confessed economy really isn't his strong suit.