Great Moments in the Duoligarchy.

Republican Lindsey Graham agrees with bipartisan sentiment that Free Speech is too dangerous to permit to Americans when it comes to inciting Muslims.

Presumably the old rules about putting a crucifix in urine as an art statement or defining Catholics as a suspect alien population in San Francisco is still hunky dory.

The Duoligarchy is in Control.

Republian Lisa Murkowski of Alaska threatens to shut down government before letting any cuts in abortion funding happen.

No wonder she couldn't win the Republican primary.

The D Oligarchs and the R Oligarchs are in agreement that they know better than their voters about how things should be run.

I am unendorsing McCain.

This post by Andrew McCarthy crystalizes my McCain conundrum:

Sen. McCain did not allow a nanosecond to go buy without issuing a sanctimonius, full-throated condemnation of any Republican who dared use Sen. Obama's middle name, mention Jeremiah Wright, or otherwise trash The One.

So where is the vigorous defense of his running-mate?

I was never sure when his desire to be feted for "bipartisanship" would cause him to adhere to the double-standard that the media applies to my side of the table.

It's bad enough for the other side to hypocritically hold us to an unfair double standard, but for the people on our team - leading our team - to do the same thing is just a bit too much.

Update:

I think this Ann Althouse post on how McCain lost her vote is fair.

Althouse makes the point that McCain seemed erratic and "unprincipled" in the sense of not having a well-defined set of values from which to operate. The latter bothered me also. So, McCain was for drilling, except in ANWR. He was against gay marriage, but not willing to align himself with propositions that garnered more support than he did. He was for patriotism, but bringing up Obama's association with avowed America-haters was off limits. He is for the First Amendment, but not if it involves political speech near elections. He is against earmarks, but votes for a $700 billion bailout bill filled with them. He is for fiscally conservative spending, but advocates a $300 billion package to buy bad home mortgages.

On the other hand, Obama is even more "unprincipled" in all senses of the word, as the post on Polish missile defense indicates.

No more Senators as candidates.