The Other McCain

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‘Cognitive Partitioning’: The Real Reason Elizabeth Warren Never Had a Chance

  The news broke this morning that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will quit the presidential campaign. I’m sure everybody is sad about this, and by “everybody,” of course I mean Jessica Valenti:   I knew going into Super Tuesday that Elizabeth Warren was unlikely to win big. I had prepared myself for that. What did […]

Clown Car Campaign Nears Its Sad End

  Early last year, Lawrence Person dubbed the Democratic presidential campaign a “clown car,” and by summer 2019, there were so many candidates it was difficult for the DNC to narrow the TV debate field down to 20. Does anyone remember anything Tim Ryan, John Hickenlooper or John Delaney said during their brief sojourns on […]

In The Mailbox: 03.04.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho Six more hours until I can freely Tweet again. If you don’t share this on Twitter, that pinche gordita Ana Navarro will have won. OVER THE TRANSOM Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #915 357 Magnum: Just So You Know Where You Stand Ammo.com: How The BATF […]

Sanders Wins California, Biden Wins Texas, Brokered Convention Looms

  As of 8 a.m., Maine remains “too close to call” — Joe Biden leads by about 2,200 votes with 83% of precincts reporting — but what matters more is the delegate count, and it will take another day or two before we have a complete total from Super Tuesday. Biden won 9 of 15 […]

In The Mailbox: 03.03.20

– compiled by Wombat-socho One day left in the Twitter GULAG. You know what you must do. OVER THE TRANSOM 357 Magnum: Leniency Leads To Crime Spree EBL: SOOPER DOOPER TUESDAY Twitchy: Ben Rhodes Lectures Dems About What Really Matters, Totally Pisses Off Bernie Bros Louder With Crowder: Mike Bloomberg Gets Called Out For Anti-Gun […]

SUPER TUESDAY: Joe Biden Sweeps the South, Bernie Sanders Wins VT, CO, UT

UPDATE 11:45 p.m. ET: OK, so far in California — about 15% of precincts reporting — it’s Sanders at 27%, Bloomberg 20%, Biden 18%, Buttigieg 12% and Warren 11%. You might say, “But I thought Buttigieg dropped out?” Yes, but early voting (an idea I’ve always opposed) means that many thousands of ballots were already […]

Bad Causes Attract Bad People: On the ‘Dirtbag Left’ of Chapo Trap House

  Perhaps the easiest (if not the most accurate) way to explain my politics is to call me a straight-up partisan: Whatever inflicts the maximum damage on the Democratic Party is what I want to happen. A more nuanced explanation is possible, but not necessary to understanding why I’m totally cheerleading the Bernie Bros in […]

#MeToo Takes Out Chris Matthews

  As a journalist, Chris Matthews has always been a joke. His only qualification is that he’s a Democrat who used to work for Tip O’Neill. That partisan credential was not enough to save him: Longtime “Hardball” host Chris Matthews resigned from his post at MSNBC on Monday night. Matthews’s sudden exit was reported by […]

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