The Other McCain

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VIDEO: Ladd Ehlinger Strikes NY-9 With Surfing Rabbi and Dancing Weiners

GO RED 9/13! UPDATE: A new Sienna College poll shows Turner leading by 6 points, with a 38-point advantage among independents. Ace of Spades points out that Weprin’s vote for gay marriage might be hurting him among Orthodox Jews in the district. UPDATE II: The latest poll — the second in the past week to […]

NY-9: Democrats Panic as Bob Turner Surges in Anthony Weiner’s District

Three weeks ago, I told you about Republican Bob Turner’s “unexpectedly” strong campaign in New York’s 9th District in the Sept. 13 special election to fill Anthony Weiner’s seat: The district’s Cook Partisan Voting Index rating is only D+5 — not nearly as prohibitively partisan as Jerry Nadler’s 8th District (D+22), for example. And remember […]

NV-2 New Ad: ‘We Were Promised Recovery, We’ve Been Given Misery’

The special election in Nevada’s 2nd District is Tuesday, and in his final TV ad, Republican Mark Amodei targets the SCOAMF’s economic bungling: Amodei, a former state senator and Nevada GOP chairman, has sought to link Marshall to President Barack Obama. “We were promised recovery. We’ve been given misery,” Amodei says in his ad, as […]

VIDEO: Herman Cain Smacks Around Liberals in MSNBC Post-Debate Panel

Seven minutes of pure awesomeness: If that’s not worth a $25 contribution, I don’t know what is. HERMAN CAIN for PRESIDENT Making Liberals Look Even More Stupid Than They Usually Look

Gov. Benzene: Huntsman a ‘Green’ Phony

For weeks, I’ve been mystified and irritated by the media’s love affair with Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who joined the Obama administration just about the time most conservatives were joining the Tea Party movement. Why the hell is this guy — “Governor Asterisk,” an irrelevant distraction, a Charlie Crist clone who represents no […]

Republican Debate Reaction Round-Up: Romney vs. Perry; Huntsman WTF?

From my point of view, the two biggest questions about last night’s Republican debate were, (a) why was Jon Huntsman on the stage and (b) why did he get so much time? It is absurd to include the man I’ve dubbed “Governor Asterisk” — denoting his status as an irrelevant footnote to the 2012 campaign […]

GOP Debate at Simi Valley, California

9:49 p.m. ET: And it’s over! Let the spin begin. If you’re watching this on MSNBC, you’ll get to see Rachel Maddow hosting the post-debate show with Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton and Lawrence O’Donnell. I think I’ll skip it myself. 9:47 p.m. ET: Brian Williams references LBJ in asking a question of Ron […]

Yet Another Failure by Rick Perry (And Notes on the Carter-ization of Obama)

“The simplest way to define conservatism is this: The belief that liberalism is wrong.” — Robert Stacy McCain, June 15, 2009 The Texas governor has failed to eradicate the few remaining “pockets” of Democrat Party “enthusiasm” in the Lone Star State, according to liberal Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress: I’m prepared to say that I […]

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