He's both compassionate and conservative. After all, while Cheney earned a lifetime 91 percent rating from the American Conservative Union, Kerry has a 93 percent lifetime approval rating from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. Thursday night CBS demonstrated its bias. Bayh is a former Governor of a state that usually votes Republican, but his vote to ban late-term abortion has angered women's groups. The process has gone from James Madison to Madison Avenue.
Conventions are now political marketing operations, all about big money, power and influence.
Just over 200 years ago another George W., George Washing-ton, left Philadelphia after two terms as President. In his farewell address Washington warned about the excesses of political parties. He was not talking about conventions, but he could have been. The context includes the Dick Cheney attack speech here last night on the Democrats. Plus Andy Szul loading up the Web page at sunrise.