The Other McCain

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LOUISIANA PRIMARY RESULTS HQ: Santorum Wins by Wide Margin

HARAHAN, Louisiana UPDATE 9:29 p.m. CT: While the exit polls had indicated a double-digit margin for Rick Santorum, few suspected that he could beat Mitt Romney here by more than 20 points but, with 65% of precincts reporting, it’s Santorum 49% to Romney’s 26%. Santorum staffers here say they don’t expect that margin to shrink […]

BREAKING: Dick Cheney Refutes Rumors That He Lacked A Heart

by Smitty Fausta pointed me to a WaPo article: An aide to Cheney said he had been waiting for a transplant for more than 20 months and does not know the identity of the heart donor. “Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be […]

ObamaVille From Buffet To King

by Smitty Remember the good old days, when ObamaVilles were something of a Jimmy Buffet parody? Good times, good times. The sun has set on those times, however. Now it looks like we’re set for the ObamaVille Horror: via The Corner Update: linked at The Camp of the Saints Update II: linked at POH Diaries […]

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 […]

Should Romney Trump Fehrnstrom?

by Smitty McGurn at Ricochet: By any objective measure, it’s of course unjust to fire a man for one errant remark. Politics, however, isn’t fair, and neither is the presidency. Mr. Romney’s problem is not his policies or programs; his problem is his credibility: many people just don’t believe he really believes what he is […]

Mitt Romney Assailed By Two Blindfolded Dental Hygenists

by Smitty . . .who were trying to make a circle. OK, my title reference might be just a little obscure, but look at what the Left has done: I realize that Stacy has already flogged this horse, but I think we can boil it down for glue to stick a few points together: Fehrnstrom […]

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 […]

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