The Other McCain

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

Special Election FL19: Edward Lynch in the First House Campaign of 2010

Of all the candidates making the rounds at CPAC last week, arguably the most important was Edward Lynch, the Republican candidate in Florida’s 19th District. Why? Because (a) Lynch has already won the GOP nomination, (b) most Democrats don’t yet realize how vulnerable this seat could be, and (c) it’s a special election scheduled for […]

CPAC 2010: Bloggerazzi Photopalooza!

“It’s all a blur,” Andrew Breitbart said to me in a phone conversation Monday, as we discussed events at CPAC 2010 — the biggest ever and, most attendees agreed, the best. The “blur” effect that Breitbart described is much like the experience of campaign coverage — you go, go, go day after day, with maybe […]

Smitty and I Featured in . . . GQ?

Thanks to Da Tech Guy for loaning me the fedora, so that Smitty and I were a matched pair in Bloggers Lounge, earning inclusion in the Gentleman’s Quarterly CPAC special online fashion extravaganza. Hey, GQ, if you ever need a right-wing stud to rock a Speedo . . . OK, that was 20 years ago, and I’m well past […]

CPAC Coda: Some Cheap Riffs

by Smitty Max Blumenthal has a parade of pathetic petulance at the PuffHo, emphasis mine: While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers. Really, Max, if you were confronted by a crazed mob, something far less fortunate would have […]

Would Everyone Please Stop Arguing About Gays and Ryan Sorba?

You’re depressing me. Really. Because I’m feeling the need to write a 2,500-word essay that no one will pay me to write. It’s very easy for Bryan Fischer to stir this up by denouncing Hot Air. That’s what he gets paid to do, stir things up. But there are important arguments being overlooked because no one will […]

What All the Cool Kids Are Wearing

You know you want to buy one of these T-shirts:

Mark Levin vs. Glenn Beck (And Some Other CPAC-Related Musings)

My 17-year-old son Bob was driving home Monday evening after we’d picked up his twin brother James from work and we were listening to the Mark Levin’s opening monologue on 1490 AM here in Hagerstown when I said, “Uh-oh, he’s going after Glenn Beck.” I grabbed pen and a piece of paper and jotted down […]

Funny, My Wife Says the Same Thing

“At which point I ran into Robert Stacy McCain and saw my entire evening turned upside down.” — Adam Brickley, Race for 2012

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