I have not seen any liberal other than Clift on the show in years.  The other "liberal" is usually Kondracke or Barnes, neither of whom is remotely considered liberal by any reasonable standard.  The left has been under-represented since Jack Germond left.

"I don't think that's going to be the issue that people vote on," the Illinois Democrat said. "People respect John McCain. They know he's a tough guy. He's gone through things that I think most of us can only imagine."

from Today's LA Times.

As far as McDepends goes: That's really insulting to a huge class of voters. How come it's OK to hate old people?

nickname for Dave Vitter?

He's also Irish.  :)

I am a Newsweek subscriber, recently there was an excerpt from her book about the death of her husband. She mentioned that Hillary called and invited her to coffee or something.

be supporting just any woman to be President to break the glass ceiling...  Did she support Lizzy Dole in 2000?  Maybe close to the Clintons or something, I don't know....

who can't believe feminists would support Hillary for so many reasons. These women are white Catholics too, my aunt and her friends. They were asking me why.

I could only tell them about my older sister who had planned to vote Hillary in NJ although she was telling me all the things she did not like about her political past or probable way of governing. She was surprised I didn't support her, all of her fiends did.
I was puzzled. Given her political view of her why would she vote for her? She began telling me how it's a womans turn, how these old white men were afraid of a strong, smart woman and would rather endorse some black kid that just waltzes in after Hilary had worked so hard.
I suggested they might have the same political view of her that she did and that was the reason.

NO! She knew they want to put women down like men always have and keep them in their place. She talked about bosses and husbands and boyfriends, women treated badly, given the scut work and have to smilingly take it and stay in their place to be accepted and white senators were continuing this. I was hearing this rage as she continued condemning men for keeping women down.

This was especially perplexing considering my sister's history with men. Gently as I could I pointed out she has wrapped them around her little finger most of her life and treated them pretty poorly.
She yelled that she had to do that to them before they did it to her because that is what men do. All her friends knew that, why didn't I?

Now by the end of that conversation having gotten her rage out she asked me about Obama and decided the way he's turn America would do more for daughters and granddaughters than having a woman president just because she was a woman. She said she was voting for Obama but didn't want her husband to know because he'd think he won. I never asked her how she voted because I'm not at all sure that decision lasted.

There was a time not long ago when certain jobs were male domain and there were or are social expectations. But we are not victims of expectations unless they are our own. Other's expectations are not laws and if we do smile and take them and let rage build it is not "their" fault, we are victimizing ourselves.

Someone else told me about her group of female friends around 60 that were supporting Clinton. They didn't talk about rage but rather Obama's youth and arrogance and it not being his turn. Who knows what is under that. The lady who told me was supporting Obama because she felt so burnt by both Clintons. She was supporting him but not believing he'd change anything. She had believed once before and had heard Bill speak a few times in 92, shook his hand and she believed. She thought he meant what he said about changing America and expected wonderful things and then felt betrayed from early on. She paid close attention to politics and had a clearer view of Bill and Hillary then I think a lot of s did.

All that said...a feminist theoretically does not want choices made on the basis of gender, so saying feminists should support Hillary is not the feminist thing to do, it is a sexist thing to do.

But many women from that generation, who were more than "trendy 70s", think that the Clintons and their policies were a huge disappointment.  Unlike the Clintons, their hearts and minds actually stayed in support of the values of the 60s (with a few minor tweaks here and there).  

IMO and generally speaking, of course, the 60s and the 70s had little to nothing in common.  If the 60s were 100% cotton,  the 70s were 100% polyester. Remember the liesure suit?   I often think of the 70s crowd as the polyester hippies.  The polyester hippies only looked like hippies.  They copied the fashion (imagine long hair and torn jeans as fashion) because it was the cool and trendy thing to do.  If Tom Brokaw is running around with long hair smoking a doob, it has to be the 70s.  This group totally missed the message if they even knew there was one. All the wannabes knew about hippies was long hair, sex, drugs, and rock and roll.