If you are what you eat -- a dubious proposition -- then does what you eat say something about how you will vote? More important, does your choice of adult beverage have some political significance?

Scott Horton raises the question at The New Republic:

A guy who's made a career writing plays and movies about the art of the grift couldn't be an orthodox liberal. This is a guy who understands something about human nature. About why people sucker and how other people get suckered. "If men were angels," and so forth. So David Mamet writes in the Village Voice this week how he figured out he's no longer a "brain-dead liberal." Uh oh.

John McCain simply can't win with some conservatives. There is nothing he can do. Brent Bozell, a lion of the right, explains why in today's Washington Post: "This is a movement fed up with betrayals, and they've come one after the other."

I meant to get to this yesterday, but it's still worth noting the Politico story about how the GOP is trying to figure out how to run against Barack Obama without looking racist, or to run against Hillary Clinton without appearing