Frank Rich is one of my favorite bloviators, but his account this last Sunday of how Obama outwitted the other bloviators over the course of the Democratic Convention struck me as containing more wishful thinking than he ought to indulge in. ( I'm not gonna go into details at this time; I'll just assert this without argument and move on.) Meanwhile, David Kirkpatrick reports that the Right--especially the Religious Right--seem to be doing some bloviator-beatdowns of their own, as McCain lurches so far to starboard (with the selection of Palin, the surrender of the party platform to Phyllis Schafly [!], etc.) that now even James Dobson is along for the voyage.
Seems like just yesterday that some observers, while refraining from obituaries, were writing decline narratives for the 'conservative movement' (somehow, this was a movement in which Jerry Falwell and Paul Wolfowitz were practically rubbing shoulders, philosophy-wise).
Come to think of it, some observers really did write obits. As Rich saw it a little more than a year ago, Rudy Giuliani's short-lived 'Big Mo' showed that the conservative base was singing a refrain that no one would want to hear come election time ('The Karl Rove theory that Republicans cannot survive without pandering to religious-right pooh-bahs is yet another piece of Bush dogma lying in ruins').
Well, there's no accounting for taste, they say.
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