Shorter J-Pod: I don't think this is wrong, but I'm still willing to attack John Edwards for it. I'm starting to see this tactic fairly often as The Corner slips into opposition mode (my personal favorite was Jonah's hilarious "Now, I don't think Charles Lindbergh is as loathsome as others do, but Matt Yglesias is a modern day Lindbergh," best analyzed here). I've always felt a bit bad for J-Pod; he strikes me a quite a bit smarter, more self-conscious, and more slyly ironic than his paid opinions allow for. So you get odd compromises like this one, where he disagrees that a populist shouldn't have a big house, but links to the attack anyway. "Look, I would never suggest you beat your wife, so let's put that terrible charge aside and focus on the issues."
And speaking of NRO-in-opposition, the site's already seeing a backlash against Romney, which seems all the more intense because it has to fight K-Lo's intense crush on him. They're going to be interesting to watch during the primary season.
Lastly, Ramesh is right, the Bush administration is full of liars.
Update: This is what I mean by J-Pod being funny. I've seen a lot of Andrew Sullivan parodies in my day (blog years are like cat year, so it's been a long day), but that's the finest one I can recall.
