The right wing’s negotiation phobia

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The Republican Party has long been plagued by the pseudo-macho rhetoric from its right wing that casts any effort at negotiation with America’s adversaries as tantamount to treason.

J. Peter Scoblic OFFERS a little history lesson that puts the current controversy over “appeasement” in useful context.

There’s just no getting away from Bush

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Try as they may, John McCain and his fellow Republican candidates can’t seem to shake their connections with — or, in most cases, fealty to — President Bush.

Frank Rich assesses the problem HERE.

Here’s another premature declaration of “Mission Accomplished”

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In my most objective assessment of this TV ad, I don’t see how it can win over even one voter. It’s a case of counting way, way too many chickens before they’re hatched:

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