The Other McCain

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

Who the Hell Does Newt Think He Is?

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. Monday night in the spin room after the Fox News debate in Myrtle Beach, I had the opportunity to score a brief interview with Rick Santorum’s campaign manager Mike Biundo, which included this exchange: RSM: A lot of people in the media are trying to play this up as Mitt versus Newt. […]

Greetings from Charleston!

CHARLESTON, S.C. Thirteen-year-old Jefferson and I were rolling leisurely south from Myrtle Beach on U.S. 17 — past pines and palmettos and live oaks draped in Spanish moss — when a black SUV passed us and I did a double take. I’d gotten just a quick glimpse at the driver as he passed, but my […]

What’s In Mitt’s Wallet?

by Smitty Perry cut right to income taxes at his first opportunity during the debate last night. Apparently, Mitt’s campaign has never heard of the Streisand Effect, where topics that really are of no interest (her house, his cash) become endlessly fascinating because people are so adamant about evading them. Why was the otherwise firm […]

Values UPDATE: Santorum Calls On Mitt To Release Tax Returns

by Smitty A refreshing 32-second palate cleanser. Godspeed, Rick. via The Corner Update: via The Hill “I don’t know why he hasn’t released his tax returns. I think he should,” Santorum said in an interview Monday on the Laura Ingraham radio show. The former Pennsylvania senator added that it was important especially for “someone with […]

A Fitting Finale to the Huntsman Flop

Network TV cameras at the Huntsman press conference MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Jon Huntsman quit the 2012 presidential campaign just as he ran it all along: Sowing confusion with contradictory messages. “This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks,” the former Utah governor said in announcing that he was suspending his campaign. Huntsman denounced […]

Dr. Strange-glove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Mitt
UPDATE: Graphic Via PCP

by Smitty Update: thank you, Political Clown Parade: The title is inspired by a post at Legal Insurrection, quoting Andrew McCarthy: I keep hoping to hear those three words [about RomneyCare]: “I was wrong.” But they’re not coming. Romney supporters on the right keep rationalizing that he is just doing what he must do to […]

Good-Bye, Governor Asterisk

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. I was sitting here working on my American Spectator column, with the Huckabee forum on Fox News playing on the TV behind me, when my son Jefferson yelled from the other room to tell me this news, which was a bulletin on the “crawl” on the TV that I wasn’t watching. Huntsman Says […]

Romney Leads by 21 Points in S.C.?

Carolina RINOs? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race, trouncing Newt Gingrich and gaining momentum in his march toward the party’s nomination, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. . . . The poll showed 37 percent of South Carolina Republican voters back Romney. Congressman […]

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