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"This is an amazingly stupid and arrogant position. If she sticks to it, it will probably kill her candidacy. And it should . . .

"Voters just repudiated a president who thinks that stubbornness is responsibility and that admitting mistakes is groveling. The way to act responsibly is not to act like him. It also happens to be the way to get elected."

What about Rudy? The New Republic's Jonathan Chait is trying to figure out how "he has somehow built a record as a foreign policy guru despite having no experience beyond the municipal level.

"What are Giuliani's credentials? Everybody knows the basics. On September 11, 2001, he rolled up his shirt sleeves and gave reassuring speeches. He has a tough guy persona. He expresses extremely strong disapproval for enemies of the United States. (For instance, Giuliani has bragged about asking President Bush to let him personally execute Osama bin Laden.) . . .

"If having a macho swagger and talking tough about bad guys were enough to make a good commander in chief, we wouldn't have the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history on our hands right now in Iraq."

It sounds like ABC's Terry Moran is just being provocative by asking, Is Giuliani White Enough? But he's got a serious point about the Republicans:

"This is a party, after all, that has nominated precisely one ethnic immigrant candidate for national office in its history--Greek-American Spiro Agnew."

Murtha-bashing is in vogue on the right, and Arianna is fed up:

"The GOP's escalating war on Jack Murtha took an ugly -- and pathetic -- turn on Sunday morning when Brit Hume launched a vicious attack on Murtha's mental acuity.

"During a panel discussion on Fox News Sunday, the normally expression-challenged Hume slapped on his finest sneer and said of Murtha: 'It's time a few things be said about him. Even the Washington Post noted he didn't seem particularly well-informed about what's going on over there, to say the least . . . This guy is long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.' He went on to call Murtha 'dotty' and 'an absolute fountain' of 'naiveté.'

"That's right, unable to win the fight against Murtha's ideas -- and not content to swiftboat his war record -- the GOP hit squad is now making the desperate play of raising the notion that the 17-term congressman may not be playing with a full deck. Call it the Senility Surge. Classy.

"Ever since Murtha first stepped forward back in November '05 and courageously called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, the pro-war rhetorical thugs have been after him. But Hume's on-air mugging is an all-time low."