The Other McCain

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ORLANDO DEBATE: Open Thread UPDATE: ‘You Don’t Have a Heart’

Nine Republican candidates will be debating in Orlando, Florida (Fox News , 9 p.m.) tonight and, rather than live-blogging, I’ll be aggregating and occasionally updating. Karl Rove has “handicapped” the debate. Thad McCotter is dropping out of the GOP race, after being repeatedly excluded from the debates. UPDATE 9:25 p.m. ET: After the first commercial break, […]

Perry Boomlet Already Fading?

In a comment on my own post Aug. 9, I wrote: There have been a few little things . . . that lead me to think Perry is a lot less certain ultimately to win the nomination than some people seem to think. What I fear will happen is that Perry will spend several months […]

Google & Bing Treating Rick Santorum To Some Of That ‘New Tone’

by Smitty Alan Colmes points to Roll Call, where something completely tasteless is on display: Try it for yourself: Enter “Rick Santorum” into Google. In a fraction of a second you’ll have hundreds of thousands of results. But two of the top four cite a graphic definition for a sexual neologism. In this case, the […]

Republicans? In California?

For several weeks now, I’ve been hearing rumors that there was something in California called a “Republican Party” with elected officials and stuff. But I dismissed all those rumors as crazy talk, because it has been years and years since any actual Republican has won any important election in California. Somebody told me that Maria […]

VIDEO: Bobby Jindal Talks About His Endorsement of Rick Perry

TAMPA, Fla. These videos were recorded just moments ago:

As If One Needed Another Reason For Uncertainty About Romney

by Smitty American Exceptionalism is founded in liberty. Progressive anti-Exceptionalism is about making people clients of the State and then using appeals to fear to keep those clients parked on the plantation. Via Hot Air, Fresh Squeezed Politics produces the Romney flyer for Florida, which I will cleave in twain for posting here legibly. I […]

Gov. Benzene: Huntsman a ‘Green’ Phony

For weeks, I’ve been mystified and irritated by the media’s love affair with Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who joined the Obama administration just about the time most conservatives were joining the Tea Party movement. Why the hell is this guy — “Governor Asterisk,” an irrelevant distraction, a Charlie Crist clone who represents no […]

Republican Debate Reaction Round-Up: Romney vs. Perry; Huntsman WTF?

From my point of view, the two biggest questions about last night’s Republican debate were, (a) why was Jon Huntsman on the stage and (b) why did he get so much time? It is absurd to include the man I’ve dubbed “Governor Asterisk” — denoting his status as an irrelevant footnote to the 2012 campaign […]

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