The Other McCain

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SOUTH CAROLINA GOP DEBATE

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. UPDATE: 11:57 p.m. ET: The debate’s been over for an hour, and all the dudes who were just Twittering have left. Bandwidth is now excellent, but I’m on deadline for The American Spectator. UPDATE: 10:42 p.m. ET: Rick Santorum says he voted 100% with the NRA: “lifetime A-plus rating.” Takes a shot […]

South Carolina Pre-Debate Thread UPDATE: New Rick Santorum TV Ad in S.C. Hits Romney as ‘Just Like Obama’

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. We’re currently an hour and a half before the start of the South Carolina Republican presidential debate (9 p.m. ET, Fox News) and I’m set up here in the cavernous Media Filing Center at the Sheraton Convention Center. Thought I’d use this post to dump in a bunch of photos, videos, etc., […]

Fall Off The Planet, Harry Reid

by Smitty What a walking monument to cretinism, as Hoft notes: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has failed to produce a budget in over 1000 days, told Face the Nation yesterday that the Republicans need to ditch the “tea party extremism.” Funny thing to hear ‘ditch’ in the same context as Harry Reid. May […]

How Low Will They Go? This Low.

Rick and Karen Santorum greet supporters in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Jan. 16, 2012 MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. I just got through covering Rick Santorum’s speech to the Faith and Freedom Coalition event here. Afterwards, Senator Santorum, his wife Karen and their four oldest children — Elizabeth, John, Daniel and Sarah — greeted supporters here for tonight’s […]

A Simple Graph To Explain Why Merely Changing The Names On The Doorplates Means, Roughly, Jack

by Smitty This is the Information Age. We’re using technology to streamline enterprises and improve profitability. Except in government. Technology, should, for a quick guess, be a liberating force. The laws, theoretically, ought to need less people to administer over time, no? Ha ha, quite the opposite: that word processer churns out even more laws, […]

Values UPDATE: Santorum Calls On Mitt To Release Tax Returns

by Smitty A refreshing 32-second palate cleanser. Godspeed, Rick. via The Corner Update: via The Hill “I don’t know why he hasn’t released his tax returns. I think he should,” Santorum said in an interview Monday on the Laura Ingraham radio show. The former Pennsylvania senator added that it was important especially for “someone with […]

A Fitting Finale to the Huntsman Flop

Network TV cameras at the Huntsman press conference MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Jon Huntsman quit the 2012 presidential campaign just as he ran it all along: Sowing confusion with contradictory messages. “This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks,” the former Utah governor said in announcing that he was suspending his campaign. Huntsman denounced […]

A Net-Based Sarah Palin Write-In?

by Smitty Muir at Day by Day is provocative, but I find the idea fraught with peril. Just as Congress doesn’t call a vote without a fairly deterministic outcome, the likelihood of a Sarah Palin write-in going pear shaped and resulting in Obama II: What Haven’t I Fracked Yet? is far too high for comfort. In […]

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