On the Right

THE death of Eugene McCarthy marks the end of a cycle and almost certainly the beginning of a new cycle with similar hallmarks. The day McCarthy died, Virginia’s popular Democratic governor, Mark Warner, signaled his candidacy for the presidency in 2008, a claim for the support of the Democratic center.

And a group that calls itself “World Can’t Wait” (www.worldcantwait.org) announced a campaign to save the United States from George Bush.