The Other McCain

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Sources Close to Christina Hendricks Could Not Be Reached for Comment

When you’re seeking a metaphor for “no chance in hell,” certain impossible scenarios immediately come to mind, which was what I was aiming for in my American Spectator column today: Monday, Carl Cameron of Fox News was the vehicle by which “sources close to the Gingrich campaign” floated a trial balloon, suggesting that former House […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 03.13.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Soldier Accused Of Afghanistan Massacre Suffered Head Injury In Iraq Brain injury the reason why? Related: Massacre Makes Obama More Determined To Pull Out Syrian Opposition Calls For International Military Intervention Good luck with that, guys. Gingrich Defiant Working hard for a badly-needed win in Dixie tomorrow POLITICS Justice […]

Arlen Specter: ‘Blinded By Passion, You Foolishly Let Someone In / All The Warnings Went Off In Your Head / Still You Had To Give In / Just When You Think You’ve Got It Down / Resistance Nowhere To Be Found / They Whisper, Promises In The Dark.’

by Smitty Sissypuss the Blog Kitty informs me that I’ve confused Arlen Specter’s plaintive whine about being used like a spitoon by Harry Ried with Pat Benatar. Oh, that’s right: Benatar had more raw energy in the shoelace holding her outfit together than the Snarlin’ One has in his entire carcass:Yid with Lid has a […]

Why Did the Santorum Campaign Leak Its Strategy Memo to Liberal Media First?

Before I wrote this post, I checked to make sure that I hadn’t somehow missed an e-mail from the Santorum campaign, which I hadn’t. And I haven’t missed any phone calls from them, either. So how to explain why they would have released an important strategy memo to Politico, rather than sending it to me, […]

Blogger Shocked — Shocked! — to Learn That John McCain Would Employ Backstabbing GOP Campaign Operative

Of course, John McCain is a man who has long cherished backstabbing as a fundamental principle of his political career, and yet R.D. Brewer at Ace of Spades HQ is nonetheless surprised by the perverse pride that the McCain campaign’s “chief strategist” Steve Schmidt takes in having helped destroy the GOP’s chances in 2008: “For […]

‘Alabama Deserves Better’

A congressman under investigation for insider trading? Suspected of enriching himself in office? Say it ain’t so, Spencer Bachus! The New York Times reports: In Alabama, Representative Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is squaring off against State Senator Scott Beason, an architect of Alabama’s tough illegal immigration bill, who is running […]

Voter ID, Eric Holder and the Increasingly Partisan Nature of ‘Civil Rights’

In case you haven’t figured it out by now, “civil rights” has become a code phrase for “whatever Democrats want,” so that anyone who disagrees with Democrats is said to be “anti-civil rights.” Case in point, the Texas voter ID law: The Justice Department’s civil rights division on Monday objected to a new photo ID […]

Expectations, Inc.

Ed Morrissey on tomorrow’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi: Gingrich really needs to win both states to remain in the race, or split them with Santorum at worst case. If Romney wins in Alabama, he can claim to have won in every part of the country, while Gingrich can’t even claim to have won all […]

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