The Other McCain

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

Take a Chill Pill, Phil

My friend Philip Klein of the American Spectator goes into Eeyore mode over the prospect of a three-way Florida Senate election with “independent” Charlie Crist: Yet, while a Quinnipiac poll taken last week found that he trailed Marco Rubio by 23 points in the primary, it also found that in a general election, Crist leads […]

If Marco Rubio Is Stalin, Who Is Crist? And What Does That Make John Cornyn?

Chris Matthews gets another thrill up his leg: Republican purge. Arlen Specter is out. John McCain, Charlie Crist and Robert Bennett are all being threatened on the right. Is this anyway to run a party or run it into the ground? . . . [W]hat happens to Republicans who don’t march to the right wing […]

Wasting Too Many Words

Daniel Larison titles a post “McCain’s Integrity” — meaning Cousin John — and then expends more than 900 words analyzing something that doesn’t exist. John McCain has no integrity. Period. Update: (Smitty) Your attention is drawn to American Freedom’s “John McCain’s Whimsical World of Conservatism 2005-2007” for a fumble-by-fumble description of why we need fewer […]

VIDEO: Rubio Calls Obama Terrorism Policy ‘Short-Sighted’ and ‘Misguided,’ Approves Israeli Strike on Iran Nukes

Javier Manjarres at the Shark Tank gets this video interview with the Florida Republican candidate for Senate: Asked about the administration’s decision to strike terms like “jihad” and “Islamic radicalism” from national-security documents, Rubio says: “It’s naive, short-sighted, quite frankly, misguided in terms of what he thinks he’s going to accomplish. These folks don’t attack America because of […]

Charlie Crist: Is He Or Is He Ain’t?

Crist’s political orientation is currently more ambiguous than Elena Kagan’s sexuality, and the soon-to-be-former Republican governor of Florida is being rather coy about his much-rumored independent run for Senate: “I’m being very thoughtful and deliberate,” Crist explains. “I’ve got a big decision to make. I haven’t concluded anything yet, but I’m getting a lot of counsel, […]

How Stupid Is Charlie Crist?

Stupid enough to think he can get elected as an independent: Top GOP officials in DC now believe it is a virtual certainty that FL Gov. Charlie Crist (R) will bolt the GOP and run instead as an independent, sources tell Hotline OnCall. Over the weekend, Crist pulled TV advertisements that had been running in […]

GOP Future Funny When Written By Lefty

by Smitty Salon is quickly becoming a go-to humor site. Ed Kilgore serves up teh funny about the future of the Democratic party, which this blog will both radically paraphrase and condense: Democratic activists ponder the November elections and wet themselves. They are hoping that the Elders of CTHULHU will pull the economy out of […]

What If Arnold Schwarzenegger Had Been as Conservative as Chris Christie?

The Wall Street Journal shares an anecdote about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie standing up to his state’s teachers union, earning praise from Moe Lane. Meanwhile, we’re watching California circle the drain — the state’s unemployment rate hit 12.6% in March — and I’m thinking of what a horrible disappointment Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been. What Christie […]

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