The Other McCain

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Rick Santorum in Cavuto Interview: ‘This Is the Hatchet-Job of All Time’ (Video Added)

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana Rick Santorum says it is “absurd” for anyone to suggest he would not support the Republican Party’s nominee against President Obama. “This is the hatchet-job of all time,” the former Pennsylvania senator told Neil Cavuto during an often-contentious Friday afternoon interview on Fox News about Santorum’s comments at a Thursday event in Texas. […]

BULLETIN: 5.0 Earthquake Hits Vanuatu; New Poll Shows Rick Santorum Headed for ‘Commanding Win’ in Louisiana Primary

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana News that the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was shaken today by a 5.0-magnitude earthquake reached me at just the same time as news that the latest poll shows Rick Santorum way ahead here: Rick Santorum is headed for a commanding win in Louisiana on Saturday. We find him with 42% to 28% […]

What Santorum Said, What He Meant, and What Romneybots Want You to Think

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana I posted the video last night, but considering the reaction, let’s once more let everybody see for themselves what Rick Santorum said: “Republicans and conservatives who are so worried about, you know, getting control back — ‘We have to win and so we have to nominate someone who can appeal to more’ — no, […]

It’s Past Midnight in Louisiana, and We’re Already Knee-Deep in Craziness

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana While I was driving six hours across Alabama and Mississippi to get here, and then covering Newt Gingrich’s appearance at a Tea Party forum on the LSU campus, it seems that everbody went crazy: Ed Crane went crazy on the Koch brothers, whom he accuses of trying to take over the libertarian […]

Santorum Leads Latest Louisiana Polls; Newt Gingrich at LSU Tonight — Maybe

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama Looking at the Politico candidate calendar, it’s slim pickings on the presidential campaign trail in Louisiana today: Mitt’s in DC, Rick Santorum’s got an event in San Antonio, Texas, and Newt Gingrich is scheduled for an 8 p.m. Tea Party forum at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Meanwhile, we have a new […]

Romney’s ‘Etch-a-Sketch’ Platform: Santorum’s ‘Act of God’ Moment?

TROUTVILLE, Virginia En route to Louisiana, I stopped here to meet Ali Akbar for lunch, then gassed up the car and was about to get back on the road when I decided I needed to get online and check my American Spectator column today (found four typos, now corrected). I got back home from Gettysburg […]

ILLINOIS PRIMARY RESULTS HQ

by Smitty 10:07 ET 65.1% reporting in IL, and Romney is at 47%? Really? Let’s hear it for people voting their conscience! 8:53 ET Media door was closed after McCain was done with his cigarette, and he entered to discover the Secret Service agent, who told Stacy, nervously holding up his media badge, that “He […]

Newt Attacks Santorum at Red State: Gingrich’s Bankrupt Narcissism

“Newt Gingrich has more debt than cash on hand, according to the FEC report he will file today. . . . Gingrich continues to carry $1.55 million in debt and the cash flow has evidently slowed. . . . [T]here are already complaints in the extended Gingrich universe about unpaid bills. . . . Gingrich’s […]

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