The Other McCain

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

The Tea Party Is Going To Rock 2012

by Smitty Mark Mekler makes a fine guest, making the case for the bottom-up strategy, instead of the drop-in, Ross Perot actor. The notion that the restoration of the country is a long-term project is blindingly obvious. However, my gut is that, as things neck down to the August GOP convention, the Tea Partiers are […]

Stacy McCain Still Shines

by Smitty Marco Rubio is a GOP celebrity whose nod would be a real help in the Florida primary. Legal Insurrection points out that: Neither Romney nor Newt deserve credit for helping launch Rubio. That credit goes to the folks at Not One Red Cent and a handful of other bloggers who started backing Rubio […]

This Patton Clip May Or May Not Be Something You Need

by Smitty In the following scene, the hard-nosed spirit of American Exceptionalism offers a bit of needed calibration to the Tea Partier: This post may not be for you, but it may be for someone you know. There seems to be a lot of angst these days about this or that candidate, and can they […]

Election Day Tea Party Wants To Abuse Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

by Smitty It really isn’t fair to debate Ms. Wasserman Schultz on a topic of which she has no knowledge: “Today, we are challenging Ms. Wasserman Schultz to a debate on the Constitution,” said Michael Patrick Leahy, co-coordinator of Election Day Tea Party. “We think the country is ready for direct and civil discourse on […]

Tea Party vs. GOP

by Smitty I find myself mostly agreeing with this analysis in Canada Free Press: The Tea Party is like a young boxer with great skills and a knockout punch, but with skinny legs: a seemingly unstoppable force in the early rounds, if a wily opponent can just survive his initial dynamism, it will be possible […]

Shorter Ace: ‘Bitches Lie’

A grossly unfair oversimplification of Ace’s argument? Sure. But in a multi-candidate Republican primary campaign where everybody’s cutting each other to ribbons, who can complain — if anyone even notices — when I gratuitously play the sexism card? And isn’t Ace calling the lady a liar? Michele Bachmann lives in a strange world. People talk about “moral relativism.” […]

SANTORUM EXPRESS SUNDAY: Conservative Gets Unexpected Endorsement by Tea Party Blogger

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum unexpectedly got a New Media boost Sunday when a top Tea Party blogger endorsed the former Pennsylvania senator. “Santorum shines bright enough above the others that I am not shy about picking him as my candidate of choice,” said Peter Ingemi, the blogger and talk radio host known as “Da […]

An Article So Excellent You Use A Blog Post As A Sort Of Bookmark For It

by Smitty Yuval Levin at the National Review Online: But the Tea Party has been very unusual for an American populist movement. It has not been focused on soaking the rich, as left-wing populists always have been. It has not even been primarily focused on reducing the tax burden on the middle class, as right-wing […]

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