To be made fast

During this political season, I am very thankful for Talking Points Memo and The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan's blog at The Atlantic. I have these sites to moor me to some truth that, unfortunately, is not available in the mainstream news digest.

I am glad I can read this:

Yes, McCain made a decision [to choose Sarah Palin as his VP] that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country's national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.

McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.

...when it's a completely legitimate thing to say, but you won't hear it anywhere else. Brackets are mine.

I love. I love that some journalist has the balls to say this:

Let's face it. Lipstick on a pig is a classic American phrase. And there's just no better way to describe the McCain-Palin ticket. The 'Reformer' whose whole campaign and senate office is run by a crew of high-rolling DC lobbyists? The earmark slayer whose state this year got ten times more earmarks than any other state in the country? Whose city when she was mayor got twenty times as many? The whole operation is just one big bamboozling lie. And lipstick on a pig is just using good American English to explain it. If McCain and Palin don't like it they should have thought of that before they decided to run as frauds.

Click the link to see TPM's great illustration. In the weeks to come, the linking to either one of these sites and some more is going to get heavy, if you haven't noticed already. So, expect a lot of linking and copying and pasting by me.