Earth To Phil Gramm: You are not helping John McCain get votes from people who are not ready to commit to voting for him. You are also an obstacle to any argument that McCain is ready to reach across the aisles. Mega-partisanship at its very worst, and it won’t appeal to independent voters — who may also be feeling the nation’s economic crunch.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.