The Convention is Coming, the Convention is Coming!

Oooo, parties. While I have never been to a national covention, I have been to the California Dem Convention and, trust me, it's all about scoring good parties with the cool people and best food.

Michael Kinsley does defense of Liberalism so fricken well.

George McGovern, children, was a senator from South Dakota (a region of the upper west side of Manhattan in the geographical mythology of Democratic Party critics) and the Democratic presidential candidate in 1972. He was, and is, a left-liberal. The Republican offering that year was Richard Nixon (with Spiro Agnew for dessert), but it is the Democrats who have been apologizing for their choice ever since...
Sure, it might have made the crucial difference if Gore had been just a bit more moderate in this or that, or if voters watching the Democratic convention had heard yet another heartfelt assurance that the party had learned its lesson and had written "I will not be McGovernite" on the board a thousand more times. But the party that gets the most votes is not "out of the mainstream," whether getting the most votes is enough to win the election or not.

Every time you hear a Hardball pundit say "moderate" take a drink.

Ooooo Bono sighting!

Bono, who has worked almost exclusively with Republicans in the last few years to increase the amount of money spent on fighting AIDS, will be making the rounds over the next few days to schmooze Democrats.

If the man can get AIDS funding and Debt relief out of Jesse Helms and W, John Kerry will be absolutely helpless in the face of his magic powers.