The New Republic

Playing Dead: [Dan
Riehl, Riehl
World View] “What better way to do it than to plant the story of your
demise, eventually pinning it on the underhanded dealings of a presumably noble
competitor's campaign? Nothing like sucking the wind out of your competitions
headline grabbing success with a staged funeral that doesn't take place.”

Shrum Knows Best?: [James
Joyner, Outside
the Beltway]: “Shrum’s absolutely right that she should focus on the
future, rather than the past. My guess is that his ‘Let Hillary be Hillary’
advice, though, would be a disaster: There’s a reason she’s being packaged.”

Huckabee v. Huckabee:
[Matt Yglesias, The
Atlantic]: “But if we entertain the premise that Kristol does think
Huckabee would make a good general election candidate, then what he's doing is
conflating the fact that Huckabee is the most appealing natural politician
in the Republican field with the idea that the actually existing Huckabee would
do well.”

Duncan Hunter, We
Barely Knew Ye: [Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters]: “If
Hunter leaves, the rest of us should hope that a Republican winner will find
room for Hunter in the next administration. He would make an excellent Secretary
of Defense, or perhaps the head of Homeland Security, if he's crazy enough to
take it.”

--Ben Crair

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