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NYTimes columnist, National Review film critic, author of The Decadent Society (2020) and The Deep Places (2021), jottings at https://douthat.substack.com 

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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Aug 2018

      John McCain, though a Boomer, was really a throwback to the post-WWII era: A would-be bipartisan dealmaker with a career founded on military courage. His strengths were often ill-suited to the times and his weaknesses amplified by them. But we shall not see his like again. RIP.

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    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Aug 2018

      I supported McCain over Bush in 2000 and though they were both wrong about the Iraq War I think the timeline where McCain won that race is probably the better one.

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      Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Aug 2018

      I also can't condemn McCain's choice of Palin in 2008 because I sort-of urged it upon him at the time. She was chosen to be something other than what she turned out to be, on the basis of a record that implied strengths she turned out to lack.

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        2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Aug 2018

          The best thing to be said about McCain's record is that he took being a senator seriously. He appreciated the powers of his office, and tried to exploit them to the hilt for his conception of the common good. Not something you can say of some/many of his colleagues.

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        3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Aug 2018

          I cannot find the link, but @RameshPonnuru wrote a piece back in 2007-2008 about McCain's politics of honor that I think was one of the best measures of the man. He was our most Roman legislator, for good or ill or both.

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        4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 25 Aug 2018

          And of course he was Silent Generation, not a Boomer, so the first tweet in this string is off-key. In any case: My God grant one of our decadent republic's last would-be statesmen his eternal rest.

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        2. CLA‏ @ConservativeLA 25 Aug 2018
          Replying to @DouthatNYT

          It made a certain kind of sense at the time to try to fold in the nascent teaparty.

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        1. CTIronman‏ @CTIronman 25 Aug 2018
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          McCain did this with the Palin pickpic.twitter.com/oVjUs5u9Rj

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        2. Josh Barro‏Verified account @jbarro 25 Aug 2018
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          This is an under-told story. If you watch the 2006 AK GOV debates, you see a very different Palin from what materialized nationally. McCain’s choice was a mistake but not as obvious as it looks in retrospect.

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        1. mike fine‏ @misterfine 25 Aug 2018
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          Sure you can. “That was a mistake, and many saw it immediately at the time.”

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        2. Vainglorious bastard‏ @PoseidonsFist 25 Aug 2018
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          That's one way to say no one researched her at all.

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        3.  💔Sweetness & Light‏ @opiejeanne 26 Aug 2018
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          I remember a puff piece about her maybe a year before she came to national prominence. Don’t remember the author, Kristol? It was a plan.

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