Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

by DemFromCT [courtesy of Daily Kos]

Monday's a good day to abbreviate.

Bill Kristol: Happy Independence Day. I read the Declaration of Independence every July 4th, and you don't, so don't sass me.

Paul Krugman: I'm back to picking on Obama. I admit it, I'm obsessed with the guy. So, is he Clinton or Reagan? I mean, after he wins, will he suck eggs, and how bad, or what?

Fred Barnes: Wow. A lot of Republicans are retiring. John Conyers, John Dingell, and Charles Rangel stuck it out in the wilderness to return and become chairs. Republicans? Rats deserting the ship. What does that tell you about the future of the party?

Robert Novak: Everyone else thinks that the Supremes helped Obama by taking guns off the table in November. But I don't agree. Forget the polls that rank this issue 382nd in importance to voters. I think everything that ever happens in life is either good for Republicans, or bad for Democrats, and this is no different.

Stuart Rothenberg: if McCain wants to shake up the race, he could pick Carly Fiorina as his VP choice. It would be a big mistake, but he could do it.

Peter A. Brown: Whites don't automatically have a problem with Obama because he's black, they have a problem with Obama because he's a Democrat.

...making a big deal about Sen. Obama’s weakness among white voters, among those with or without a college education, and assuming it has to do just with his race ignores history. It does a disservice to both Sen. Obama and those who oppose him.

Cass R. Sunstein and Justin Wolfers:

We concur with [Justice] Scalia [on the death penalty] that if a strong deterrent effect could be demonstrated, a plausible argument could be made on behalf of executions. But what if the evidence is inconclusive?

Well, in that case it would seem that who you put on the Supreme Court matters.