Wolcott's entry (introducing Barett's analysis)

[robbedvoter]

Beware of White Men Bearing Gifts

I've never bought the pre-championship palaver that the Republicans were itching keen to face Hillary Clinton in the fall, that her mere presence in the race would energize their white-dumpling demoralized base into mobilizing into peasant mobs ready to storm Frankenstein's castle. The party's true savants had underestimated Hillary when she first ran for Senate and saw Rick Lazio's ears get pinned to the mat, and were unlikely to duplicate that error. I believe that they're far more wary of the Clinton machine than the Obama phenomenon because a phenomenon can be pricked or pop of its own accord, leaving behind a melting irridescence, whereas a machine like Clinton's feeds on the negativity thrown at it, a juggernaut nightmare designed to keep the opposition guessing over every move and plunge Andrew Sullivan into clammy angst ("I woke up in a cold sweat early last Wednesday").more
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott/2008/03/ive-never-bough.html

[NastyRiffraff]

1. Wolcott nails another one

And he's right. The Obama supporters are falling for it, hard. They're lapping it up even as they're being played.

[robbedvoter]

2. Glad to see you here! Most of the pundits listed by Barett have been posted on DU

Bennett, Kirstol, Nooner - they embraced them all when they went their way

[libbygurl]

3. Yep. See, those conservatives just want what's truly good for the country...

...and not really what's good for the GOP. They're such selfless creatures, so much so that they'll sacrifice one of their own and even pump up a candidate of 'the enemy' - the Democrats - because it's good for the nation.

How wonderful. How altruistic.

How clever and cynical. 'Cause even the Dems are swallowing the whole plan, hook, line and sinker.