The Other McCain

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Rick Santorum in Lansing, Michigan, Calls Romney’s Attack Ad Campaign a ‘Joke’

Rick Santorum speaks in Lansing, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 LANSING, Michigan Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says it is a “joke” to be accused of liberalism by his rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Speaking the day before Michigan voters go to the polls for Tuesday’s crucial GOP primary, Santorum said he has been “leading, […]

Santorum: The Fight and the Fighter

TROY, Michigan Last night, when I neared the Colonial Valley Suites in Davison, I immediately realized a huge crowd had turned out for Rick Santorum’s event at the Crystal Hall. Cars were parked alongside the road. Pulling over to park the rented Toyota by the roadside, I had to walk a few hundred yards to […]

Celebrating A CoMittMent To Rolling American Exceptionalism

by Smitty In a way, I admire Mitt’s politically incorrect willingness to own cars and homes. It’s not really conspicuous consumption, but it’s far more forthright than, say, a stealth trip to Aspen. On the one hand, I’m not too materialistic, and own a modest sedan. On the other, the notion of private property and […]

Rick Santorum On Meet The Press

by Smitty Rick Santorum does a fine job standing up to the job the American media won’t do with respect to any public figures on the Left: Santorum is using more ‘Teatard’ phrasings like ‘equality of opportunity’. Will the hefty Catholic presence in Michigan make the difference for Santorum on Tuesday? I rather hope so. […]

Ann Coulter: What?

by Smitty Is free speech a bad thing? The No. 1 conservative talk-radio host in America, Rush Limbaugh, is critical of Romney, and another top conservative talk-radio host, Mark Levin, is adamantly against Romney — though both Limbaugh and Levin supported Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008, and Romney has only […]

Rick Santorum Hears Hillary Clinton’s Caution About GOP Campaign Rhetoric, Delivers Cupcake And Pony Speech

by Smitty Speaking to Tunisians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, in summary “Pay no mind to those zany Republicans; they’re just talking election-year smack.” Via Alan Colmes, via Tampa Bay Online: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to “not pay attention” to the comments made by […]

Stacy McCain Infiltrates Koch-Brothers Cabal Of Extreme Extremism

by Smitty Are we supposed to believe that this so-called: ‘Michigan Prosperity Forum’ is anything other than an organizing even for foul extremists, bent on overthrowing Holy Progress? As Dr. Melissa Clouthier has reported, Americans for Prosperity is merely a front group for those bad, bad Koch brothers, whose hidebound commitment to pre-Progressive ideas like capitalism […]

Fear and Loathing in Romneyland

Herman Cain tour bus at the American Polish Cultural Center in Troy, Michigan, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 WASHINGTON, Michigan Shortly after I arrived at Rick Santorum’s Michigan state headquarters in Troy yesterday evening, I was talking to one of his campaign workers, Joe Cella, when a volunteer walked in and said, “Hey, Herman Cain’s doing […]

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