Vote-o-rama: opinion coverage on McCain-Palin
An archive of commentary on the GOP ticket going back to June 2008.
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The candidate has used his ‘country-first’ rhetoric before. But will the Great Man act turn into a self-parody?
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She is as much a product of the oil industry as the current president and his vice president.
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Can I get back to you on that?
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The financial crisis has caught the candidates’ attention -- but we need solutions, not politics.
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His acceptance speech was designed to appeal beyond the GOP base. But where was the maverick?
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Sarah Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Hillary Clinton. She is Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.
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She’s not qualified to be president, and in picking her, McCain shows that he has little respect for the presidency.
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The storm allowed McCain to distance himself, and the party, from the unpopular Bush.
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McCain’s choice of running mate shakes things up, but it also raises some unsettling questions.
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Neither candidate qualifies as an ‘ordinary American,’ so stop the sniping over personal wealth.
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Many years separate the two candidates, but it’s not a gap you can measure with an EKG.
