In May 2007, National Review's Mark Hemingway wrote, with annoyance, about the questions directed at Mitt Romney's Mormon faith:

He’s not running for president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he’s running for president of the country.

Charles Krauthammer bemoans identity politics in the Democratic Party:

Race, age and gender. Is this campaign about anything else?

Nationally, the older white woman -- Clinton -- carries the senior vote, the white vote and the women's vote. The younger black man -- Obama -- carries the youth vote, the black vote and the male vote.

Kevin Drum notes this bit from Mitt Romney:

"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Sens. Clinton or [Barack] Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," Mr. Romney planned to say in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

It was a terrific speech to go out with. Mitt Romney addressed a packed ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C., making official the news that had been circulating this morning. He's leaving the race, he says, so that his campaign does not undermine the war effort. Fighting on until the convention, Romney said, would prevent the Republican frontrunner from fighting effectively against Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. Both of those candidates, he said, have announced their desire to retreat and embrace defeat in Iraq. "Sen.

Those are the words of John Podhoretz. The interesting part of the sentence is the first: Whatever McCain is. Well, what is he? We're told he is a conservative... or, at least, not not-a-conservative. True?