Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

Your one stop pundit shop.

Karl Rove says that John McCain and Barack Obama are both flip-floppers, but when McCain does it he has a good and principled reason. And it's gutsy.

Richard Allen compares Barack Obama's foreign policy experience with that of past presidents and explains why Ronald Reagan's thin resume didn't matter:

One of Reagan's most important advantages by 1980 was the widespread notion that he was but "a B-grade movie actor" -- entirely scripted. In fact, he was a voracious reader, researcher and writer, and over the span of his career had publicly addressed practically every foreign and domestic public policy issue a president would confront.

Todd Domke is afraid that Mitt Romney will buy himself the VP slot and that this would be bad because he is too pretty, too rich, too white, and besides, Democrats might call him a Mormon as payback for the "Obama is a Muslim" claims.

Donald Lambro lauds John McCain's many trips to Iraq and Afghanistan in one paragraph and says it's "a little pathetic" to think that Barack Obama's trip to Iraq and Afghanistan has any meaning in the next.

Douglas MacKinnon says that the media is unethical, liberal, in the tank for Barack Obama, and that:

The main complaint of this editor was the liberal "monolithic-thought" that permeated management at the top newspapers in the country. "Oh, sure," he stressed. "They will let the occasional conservative on the page, but a conservative will never be hired."

MacKinnon makes his complaint on the pages of the Washington Times. More later on Mr. MacKinnon's take on the advantages of being a black in America.

Jamie Barnett, the former deputy commander of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, takes on "don't ask, don't tell."

It is up to Congress and the president to craft policy on gay men and lesbians serving in the military, but it is the responsibility of senior military commanders to advise our nation's leaders on how law and policy affect military readiness. I raised this issue in 2003 when a task force I served on worked on the Navy's diversity strategy. Senior leaders must state plainly how "don't ask, don't tell" affects recruiting, retention and our ability to develop essential military skills. They should speak up about how it affects military honor and integrity. It is our duty, something military leaders understand well, to speak openly of how "don't ask, don't tell" injures our military and weakens our preparedness.