The Other McCain

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VA Attorney General Cuccinelli On GOP Primary Ballot

by Smitty Virginia is for politics lovers, and those who love being loved by politics. He has a lengthy email newsletter, which is not a survival guide, but offers some behind the scenes insight on the candidates. Cooch is a Santorum fan, and had the dimmest of faint praise for the Ruling Class Overlord approved […]

Rule 5 Monday: Boxing Day Edition

— compiled by Wombat-socho Laughing Conservative leads off this week’s Rule 5 roundup with a Catholic joke, while Randy’s Roundtable takes a midweek break with Nina Agdal and Laura Acuna. Three Beers Later has cartoon Christmas cuties and Joey Heatherton; Fishersville Mike celebrates the delayed start to the NBA season. El Opinador Compulsivo sifts through […]

Santorum Gets 4 ‘Clean Kills’ in Pheasant Hunt With Steve King; No Endorsement

ADEL, Iowa Today’s hunt at Doc’s Gun Club was successful for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who said he got four “clean kills,” and also saw his teenage son John get his first bird. Santorum also got some solid publicity for his campaign, as a horde of media turned out to cover his post-hunt press […]

Greetings From Iowa

Aaron Rupp is an industrial control systems engineer from Cedar Rapids who sent me an e-mail yesterday wondering if I needed a ride from the airport. By the time I took off this morning from BWI, my plan had already progressed to include a 140-mile drive to Adel — clear on the other side of Des Moines — […]

The Lonely Conservative Injures Herself While Linking Us

by Smitty This blog fully understands the compulsive desire to link The Other McCain, but encourages blogger safety at all points. If you’re all broken up, how can you link us more? Ouch! OK, it was an ice skating accident. Seriously, TLC: best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Fear and Loathing at BWI

BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT They’ll call final boarding in less than an hour, so there’s no time now for a lot of fancy stuff. I’m scheduled for a three-hour flight to Detroit, a one-hour layover and then a 40-minute hop to Cedar Rapids. The big headline on Memeorandum: Mitt Romney’s secret money What does it mean? Who […]

E. J. Dionne Gets His Winston Smith On

by Smitty Sweet, sweet NewSpeak. How thou makest the truth to reek. And those blindest Who’d their past seek. Dionne’s column is masterful. Wander through the professional-grade propaganda has E. J. denounces the GOP candidates. A taste: The GOP is engaged in a wholesale effort to redefine the government help that Americans take for granted […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: How’s the Weather Today in Vanuatu?

“Santorum is a social conservative, and everybody seems to have convinced themselves that social conservatives are a dead weight impeding the Republican Party and therefore no one should ever express support for any social conservative anywhere, under any circumstance.” — Robert Stacy McCain, “Slouching Toward Cedar Rapids” “How long, O Lord, how long? Where will […]

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