The Other McCain

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

Erick Erickson, Santorum Consultant?

JOHNSTOWN, Ohio In the preceding post, I described Erick Erickson as hating Rick Santorum “with the heat of ten thousand suns,” which evidently prompted commenters to call my attention to Erickson’s post-debate analysis at Red State: It was the last debate. Newt Gingrich won it. He was the only candidate who repeatedly steered the questions […]

You Should Only Vote Against The GOP Nominee If Your Name Is Pyrrhus

by Smitty I don’t care if Ron “How About My Idiotic Newsletters?” Paul takes the GOP nomination: as you care about your country, you really want to support the GOP nominee. Two words to those who’d speak otherwise: “Judicial Nominees”. The thought of #OccupyResoluteDesk plucking a couple more wise female softballers from his. . .back […]

Because Mitt Is Just Too Cool

by Smitty Why is the low pressure of the Romney vacuum continuing to bolster Santorum? Romney, for reasons that continue to remain a mystery to me, appears to be following a strategy of actively avoiding the Tea Party movement. To my knowledge, he has never addressed an actual tea party rally or local tea party […]

Listen To Jackson, Not SNL, On BHO

by Smitty This was the butt-end of SNL on 18 February, and what and obsequious act of drool-bucketry we have, as a talk show host pretends to reinforce with two guests that there is no act that #OccupyResoluteDesk could do which is so heinous that any of the three would fail to prostrate themselves before […]

The Last Time I Got a Cold …

. . . it turned into pneumonia, and therefore I took alarm when I got a runny nose today. So I went to bed, figuring that the strain of coping with Post-CPAC Bloggers Gone Crazy Week (as I’ve begun to describe it) might be undermining my physical well-being. However, my wife surprised me this afternoon by […]

Professor Jacobson, Maybe We Should Both Start Blogging About Sports …

. . . or movies or food or something besides politics, because right now we are diametrically opposite and neutralizing each other: Should the race come down to Santorum or Romney, I’d have to think about it, as shocking as that may sound given my criticisms of Romney. That’s not so much a vote of confidence […]

Insta-RINO?

Has Glenn Reynolds joined the “Roll Over for Romney” movement? Back in 2008, the social-cons were all-in for Romney, to the point where Hugh Hewitt’s take became a running tagline (“You know who this is good for? Mitt Romney!”) that’s still used by by bloggers from time to time. Now, not so much. So what […]

Are We Really Just Too Stupid To Merit Free Elections Anymore?

by Smitty A Montana case on corporate spending on campaigns is exhuming the hoary specter of the Citizens United ruling: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, joined by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, also supported the delay, but said that the case “will give the Court an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently […]

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