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Midweek briefing ...
For Lyndon Johnson it was Walter Cronkite. Will it be Bill Buckley for George Bush? LBJ felt he had lost the American people when the former CBS News anchor said victory in Vietnam was not possible. Now Mr. Buckley, the conservative icon, says "our mission has failed" in Iraq. Certainly, the beginning of America's endgame in Iraq is upon us. ... Writing in The Nation, leftist flamethrower Max Blumenthal says Princeton University "has become a testing ground for the latest phase of the right's effort to politicize the academy." As if the overtly and mostly liberal faculty hasn't been doing that for years, Max? ... Presidential adviser Karl Rove predicts that Republicans will maintain control of both the House and Senate in the November elections. He even holds out the possibility of gaining seats in both houses. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean the spendthrift GOP has done a good job; it just means Democrats have nothing to offer. ... The Tampa Tribune has unloaded on a possible Hillary Clinton presidential run. In a "Dear Hillary: Don't Run" editorial Saturday last, it calls Mrs. Clinton "the most polarizing figure in the Democratic Party." And it says a Hillary candidacy "will hurt the election chances of other Democratic candidates up and down the ballot" and "doom Democrats to impotence for decades." As we like to say at times like this -- Run, Hillary, run!
