When did journalists become defenders of and apologists for the candidates?
MATTHEWS: Jill, I score that for Wolf Blitzer. In this business, when you ask a big shot a question and they have no Earthly idea what the answer is, that‘s a victory for the questioner. Wolf asked him a simple question, tell me one area where this will not be a third Bush term for Bush, where John McCain does differ in any way from what Bush would do if he got another four years. He couldn‘t come up with one. He kept saying, I can‘t think of anything.
ZUCKMAN (Chicago Sun Times): Governor Sanford has not spent a lot of time on the campaign trail with Senator McCain. He did not support him during the South Carolina primary. He stayed neutral. He hasn‘t been out on the road with him. So he hasn‘t been listening to him at town hall meetings, when he talks about freezing spending, about cutting domestic discretionary spending, about no more earmarks. He is, I would say, Messianic on this topic. It‘s a very big difference from the way the Bush administration has run things.
Messianic?