The Other McCain

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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 […]

My Son, the C-SPAN Star

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. When we attended Rick Santorum’s town-hall event in Florence yesterday, the C-SPAN “Road to the White House” crew was there. After we got back to the hotel, they were replaying it on C-SPAN. My 13-year-old son Jefferson saw himself on TV and said, “Millions of women are going to see this!” So […]

Scott Walker Is A Threat To The Status Quo

by Smitty How dare this man keep campaign promises, govern soberly, balance the budget, and refrain from raping the taxpayer? Didn’t he get the memo that, as of Barack Obama, our elected executives are giving it the Full Nero? Walker is about as dangerous as my own governor, Bob McDonnell. Perhaps moreso: Walker did it […]

Dr. Strange-glove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mitt
UPDATE: Graphic Via PCP

by Smitty Update: thank you, Political Clown Parade: The title is inspired by a post at Legal Insurrection, quoting Andrew McCarthy: I keep hoping to hear those three words [about RomneyCare]: “I was wrong.” But they’re not coming. Romney supporters on the right keep rationalizing that he is just doing what he must do to […]

LIVE AT FIVE – 01.16.12

— compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Rescuers Brave Cold, Darkness To Search Wrecked Cruise Ship Racing against time to find the sixteen still missing Who Gets Today Off? Only 3 in 10 non-federal employees get Martin Luther King Jr. Day off work Goodbye, Governor Asterisk Will endorse Romney. Yeah, that’ll help. POLITICS Wisconsin’s Scott Walker […]

Good-Bye, Governor Asterisk

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. I was sitting here working on my American Spectator column, with the Huckabee forum on Fox News playing on the TV behind me, when my son Jefferson yelled from the other room to tell me this news, which was a bulletin on the “crawl” on the TV that I wasn’t watching. Huntsman Says […]

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