Real Life Liberals Imitate 30 Rock

which is supposed to be a caricature, of conservatives.
WaPo:

Most important, led by the two main contenders for the party's 2008 nomination, religious Democrats are publicly reclaiming their faith. I've gotten used to people coming out to me when I speak to Democratic audiences these days. "I'm religious, too," they'll whisper in my ear as they shake my hand quickly. Not long after the 2004 election, a congressional aide identified himself as an evangelical during a public Q&A. He told me afterward that it was the first time he'd "outed" himself in front of fellow Democrats. "How did it feel?" I asked. He paused. "A little scary," he said. "But good."

Unbeatable GOP Campaign Slogan

I think this is actually an attack ad, but that's no reason that we can't use it.

Metaphor Alert

Ross Douthat:

All along, I've made the argument that nominating Hillary is the play-it-safe strategy for the Democrats, because while she has a lower ceiling than Obama she also may have a higher floor. Now that McCain is the presumptive GOP nominee, there seems to be an assumption that the Democrats just have to nominate Obama, because you need the guy with the higher ceiling if you're up against a media-darling and moderate-friendly candidate like the Arizona Senator. And maybe that's so. But if Obama does have a glass jaw, if his candidacy is a bubble waiting to be pricked, a strong Republican nominee like McCain is precisely the guy to do it.

And I think McCain is a glass-blimp-cathedral.

Links for the Day

Gabriel Schoenfeld on Democrats' Iraq problem
David Brooks on Democrats' illusory unity
Leon Wieseltier: a liberal's conservative problems with Obama
Last, John Podhoretz's really long piece on why Iraq is the Republican's only hope