The Other McCain

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

#VVS11: Campaign Spin Wars Follow Values Voters Summit Straw Poll

Following up on the earlier post about the Values Voters Summit presidential straw-poll results, we continue to the spin phase of the event, where people tell us what it means. Most interesting to me was a story in the liberal New Republic by Simon van Zuylen-Wood: The story from Day One of the Christian conservative […]

Virginia Is For Election Lovers

by Smitty This morning I attended a Fairfax County GOP Veterans breakfast. The state’s rock star Attorney General was there, as a featured speaker. He kept the chat local, and election-focused, not addressing ObamaCare at all. Mingling later, it sounded as though VA’s case may get mixed in with the rest, argued early next year […]

PAULBOT-MANIA: Ron Paul Supporters Buy Victory in ‘Value Voters’ Straw Poll

The question to be asked is not whether it is unfair for the Paul campaign to keep doing this, but why the rest of the GOP field can’t spend a few bucks to do it themselves. Dave Weigel at Slate reports: He beat out seven other candidates and “undecided.” The full results, with 1,983 ballots […]

Conventional Wisdom on Herman Cain

Having covered the Herman Cain campaign since December 2010, I’ve had occasion to remark more than once that people underestimate him at their peril. The experts have said all along that there’s no way Herman can win. It’s possible they may keep right on saying that — chanting it like a mantra — until the votes […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk to the Herman Cain Presidential Campaign

To: Mark J. Block, J.D. Gordon Re: U.S. Policy, South Pacific Region The island republic of Vanuatu will, I think, play a key role in the Cain administration’s foreign policy vis-a-vis the South Pacific. While the Republican Party Establishment has long ignored Vanuatu, my years of study of their culture, history, geography and economy have convinced […]

EXCLUSIVE: Rick Santorum Interview

WASHINGTON, D.C. Here at the FRC Value Voters Summit, I was walking through the lobby of the Omni Shoreham Hotel when I saw a familiar face: One of the daughters of former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. The candidate’s three oldest children and his lovely wife were sitting in the lobby, awaiting the candidate’s return from […]

Cain: The Last Hope Against Romney?

Michale Merritt offers an odd criticism of Herman Cain: That’s because Cain has no national security experience. He’s never worked in the field; he’s a businessman, so it’s not so surprising. He’s also never held high office before, so national security hasn’t come onto his radar from that perspective either. Unlike Perry, Romney, Johnson, and […]

Herman Cain in D.C. Area Today

Two events: Herman Cain will appear noon Friday a the Costco in Pentagon City to sign copies of his new book, This Is Herman Cain! Herman Cain will speak at 4 p.m. at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in D.C. This basement-office pundit game gets old after a […]

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