Opinion - The Weekly Standard

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 06 - 10/20/2008 - Over the past few weeks, in a series of television ads, in stump speeches, and in the presidential and vice presidential debates, the Obama campaign has sought mightily to attack John McCain's proposal for health care reform.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 05 - 10/13/2008 - Sarah Palin's scintillating success in last week's vice presidential debate with Joe Biden has made her an enormous asset (again) to John McCain's bid for the presidency. Now McCain must decide how to maximize her role in the campaign. Anything short of bringing her front and center makes no sense.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 05 - 10/13/2008 - The odds are against John McCain and Sarah Palin winning this election. It's not easy to make up a 6-point deficit in the last four weeks. But it can be done.

Washington (The Daily Standard) - The moment when Sarah Palin knew she was winning last night's debate with her vice presidential opponent Joe Biden came after the subject had turned to nuclear weapons. Palin had talked about nukes as a deterrent and said it was important to keep them out of the hands of dictators who are enemies of America. Then she turned to moderator Gwen Ifill and asked, "Can we talk about Afghanistan real quick?"

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 04 - 10/6/2008 - Richmond"So here we are--on The View. You guys don't be nervous.

Washington (The Daily Standard) - The McCain campaign is now trying to broker a deal between House Republicans, Treasury Secretary Paulson, and the Democrats. This will be tough--but it's worth a shot.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 03 - 9/29/2008 - It took Conservatives in Great Britain a decade to restore their party's good name. It is taking Republicans a far shorter time--perhaps only two years--to begin a significant comeback. Who's responsible? For sure, John McCain and Sarah Palin have played major roles. But so has a Republican who was one of the causes of the party's decline--President Bush.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 03 - 9/29/2008 - "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs .  .  . ," then you could be the next president.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 02 - 9/22/2008 - Conservatives are rushing to crown Alaska governor Sarah Palin as the new Ronald Reagan. And indeed there are similarities. Like Reagan, Palin has a dazzling star quality and an appeal to voters outside the conservative orbit. But there's another likeness to Reagan that conservatives may find a bit off-putting. She governs as a pragmatic conservative--with heavy emphasis on the pragmatic.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 02 - 9/22/2008 - Historians looking back on these tumultuous times will no doubt argue over the precise date on which the Age of Palin began. Her speech at the Republican National Convention on September 3 certainly catapulted her to national renown. But there is a good case to be made for her introductory appearance in Dayton, Ohio, five days before.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 02 - 9/22/2008 - He has 300 foreign policy advisers and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee is his vice presidential nominee. And yet Barack Obama's foreign policy is still all twists and turns, forever adapting to every change in the political circumstances.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 014, Issue 02 - 9/22/2008 - The liberal media are angry. Very, very angry. How do we know? Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's chronicler of all things media, says so: