The Other McCain

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

SCOAMF Nation

MANCHESTER, N.H. Dan Collins says he was the first person to wear a “SCOAMF” T-shirt to a Tea Party rally: Dan says Ace of Spades HQ readers will know what this acronym means.

SARAH PALIN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

MANCHESTER, N.H. UPDATE: Here’s a shot where you can see the crowd size (click to enlarge): My rough eyeball estimate was about 800 people. There were lots of chants of “Run, Sarah, run!” BTW, this photo nearly got me the bum’s rush from security. I went up the stair backstage to get the photo and […]

VIDEOS: Pro-Romney, Anti-Romney and Mrs. Romney at Concord, N.H., Tea Party

Yesterday’s Tea Party Express event in Concord, N.H., featured every possible perspective on Mitt Romney. Because of connectivity issues, I only uploaded the photos last night. Now here come the videos, beginning with freshman Republican state Rep. Susan DeLemus, who is definitely anti-Romney: The Tea Party Express buses arrive for the rally at Rollins Party: Tea […]

MITT-MANIA in New Hampshire!

CONCORD, N.H. Mitt Romney headlined tonight’s Tea Party Express rally and here are just a couple of photos: I’ll have much, much more in a few moments. UPDATE: More photos: Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer is interviewed by Da Tech Guy. Dave Weigel interviews some local Tea Party activists who showed up to protest against Romney.  […]

Greetings from New Hampshire

“In the course of this apparently endless campaign, I have set up the National Affairs Desk in some of the worst hotels, motels and other foul commercial lodging establishments in the western world. Politicians, journalists, and traveling salesmen seem to gravitate to these places – for reasons I’d rather not think about, right now – […]

Palin’s Pressure on Perry

Writing about yesterday’s Sarah Palin rally in Iowa, I mentioned the theory that “Palin may enter the 2012 field because of her dissatisfaction with Perry’s campaign.” I resisted the temptation to examine the theory at length, because I wanted to discuss something I’d seen earlier — Dan Riehl’s discussion of the Palin-Perry issue: For her […]

Two Famous Italians in Hats

AYER, Massachusetts Da Tech Guy dines at his favorite table in one of his favorite restaurants, the Nashoba Club Restaurant. Pete’s got me linked up. He’ll be my host for the next few days, so you probably want to go hit his tip jar for having to put up with me. Tomorrow: New Hampshire.

Fear and Loathing at Union Station

UNION STATION, Washington, D.C. My son-in-law dropped me off here about 1 a.m. My train leaves at 3:15 a.m.  So I’ve got a few minutes to do a quick blog post before I board the train and head off to Worcester and thence to New Hampshire. We’re trying to get Dan Collins of Piece of […]

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