The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

The Flyer's cocky tail plummage and acrimonious calls at dawn still attracts readers from the intelligentsia. A reader forwards: [excerpt] "... In South Carolina in 2000, Bush crushed John McCain with a sub-rosa primary campaign of such viciousness that McCain lashed out memorably against Bush’s Christian-right allies. So profound was McCain’s anger that in 2004 he flirted with the possibility of joining the Democratic ticket under John Kerry. Bush, who took office as a “compassionate conservative,” governed immediately as a rightist ideologue. ..." Read more at The New Yorker