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As a case study, let’s take Chicago native Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate. He was in the news awhile back because he wrote a book called The Bush Tragedy. In his essay “The Bush Who Got Away,” he explains that Bush wasn’t the moderate he sometimes said he would be, and that sucks. I guess we all learned something?
“a politician in genuine flux”; “uncharacteristically calculating”; “temporarily turned into a performing elephant”; “choosing his battles far more selectively”; “pandering to the Republican base in a way that is politically shrewd”; “Discount his repositioning a bit”; “smoke signals”; “if you watch closely, you still catch plenty of signals”; “the old new McCain isn’t dead, just hiding out”; ” “lapses”; “a stratagem”; “a mandatory position he no longer believes in, if he ever really did”; “a conservative before he was a liberal before he became a conservative again”; “searching phase”;
