The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

When A Conversation You’ve Had Comes Out Of A Different Mouth

by Smitty A lot of this sort of talk in the air of late: “Then came 2011,” Rebecca says, and her mood clouds. “It felt like every time I turned around, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell were selling us out, hanging our Tea Party freshmen out to dry, and doing it for no apparent reason.” […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Sic Transit Jacksonville Airport

JACKSONVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Fla. Dan Balz drifted out of the Champions sports bar adjacent to the Tampa Marriott last night just as I was heading in to order a cheeseburger. “Whaddya think?” I said. “Good night for Romney,” he said. And that was really all that could be said. There was no drama, no suspense, […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.01.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Romney Takes Florida Primary Romney 46%, Gingrich 32%, Santorum 13%, Paul 7% Gingrich undaunted; says “people power will beat money power” Santorum looks beyond Florida to next week’s caucuses and primaries Ron Paul sets sights on Nevada caucuses Israel To Deport South Sudanese Refugees protected status expired when new […]

Dana Loesch And Rick Santorum? Tea And A Scone, In My Humble

by Smitty Keep listening. It’s boilerplate for the first five minutes, after which the exchange picks up significantly. via Insty

BREAKING NEWS: MITT ROMNEY WINS FLORIDA REPUBLICAN PRIMARY

TAMPA, Fla. Polls just closed in the western panhandle of Florida, and there is no need for suspense regarding the result. It has been pretty much a universal certainty for the past week that Romney was going to win this thing pretty easily, and the only question is the final margin of victory. In fact, […]

Interesting Online Data Point–No One Has Much Command In The GOP Scramble

by Smitty This means little more than the fact that Drudge’s server is working, but it may blunt some of the triumphal noises from Romney-land:For a third of a million Drudge readers, I would expect the prohibitive favorite to at least pull one in three, if not two in five. But, like a mortally wounded […]

‘Why Do Younger Men Shorten Women’s Lifespans?’

by Smitty Roxanne de Luca poses the subject question. First off, I think that the Progressive notion that women=men is as much garbage as global warming. Neither gender is superior, in my estimation. I will note in Genesis 3, when the politics hit the fan, that a man is more immediately culpable. Cutting right to […]

Newt Gingrich: Graceless in Defeat?

Newt Gingrich in Fort Myers, Fla., Monday Jan. 30, 2012 NAPLES, Fla. This will be my last day here in the posh condo which Dan Collins has so generously made available as the Florida headquarters of the National Affairs Desk. Tonight I head up to Tampa to cover RINO Fest 2012 Mitt Romney’s victory celebration, […]

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