Rod Dreher, a true conservative who holds some crunchy values (such as a faith in local foods, architecture respectful of traditional values, and nature) has sharp words for Marco Rubio, the young Florida senator who at a glance seems to be the veep choice most likely to help Mitt Romney:
This guy, Rubio, is supposed to be the great hope of the GOP? If a man with this foreign policy view, a conservative who cannot bring himself to acknowledge the Iraq debacle and its lessons for going forward, is chosen to run with Mitt Romney, I think we’ll know pretty much all we need to know about the wisdom of voting Republican this fall. It’s like the last 10 years have disappeared down the memory hole. The same people and same thinking that led to this mess still run the Republican Party; look at Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team. As Talleyrand said of the Bourbon monarchs, so too we should say of the GOP: “They learned nothing, and forgot nothing.”
Meanwhile Karl Rove, one of the architects of the Iraq debacle, posts an electoral map strangely favorable to the Prez. More spin from the Turd Blossom? Seeting up a GOP "comeback?"
via Slate's Dave Weigel.
Kit Stolz 