The Other McCain

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Michele Bachmann Touts ‘No’ Vote on Debt Ceiling Deal in Latest Iowa TV Ad

DES MOINES, Iowa While watching TV news in my motel this morning, I saw a Michele Bachmann ad, aimed directly at getting her supporters out to next week’s Ames Straw Poll: It’s a good ad: She slams Washington “politicians,” blames the bad economy on Obama, says, “Someone needs to say no,” and closes with an invitation […]

‘Neo-Confederate Sex Panic’ Becomes the Biggest Political Punchline of the Year?

DES MOINES, Iowa Little did I suspect this morning when I boarded my flight at Reagan National that, by the time I reached Iowa, the nation would be deep in the grip of a hitherto unknown political fever: Neo-Confederate Sex Panic! “It was like the secessionists .. . Even as [Obama] was being inaugurated, the […]

‘That Evil Hour …’

How long, O Lord, how long? Where will it end? All I ever wanted out of this campaign was enough money to get out of the country and live for a year or two in peaceful squalor in a house with a big screen porch looking down on an empty white beach, with a good […]

News: Herman Cain Beats Rick Perry and I Just Bought My Ticket to Des Moines

The media don’t much like him, but whenever he gets a chance to meet people one-on-one, he wins: Presidential candidate Herman Cain won the straw poll at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver this weekend with 48 percent of the votes, followed by Texas Governor Rick Perry. “How about spectacular,” Cain said to ABC News […]

Herman Cain: He’s In It To Win It

Late Tuesday night, I had about 45 minutes of frustrated confusion when California writer Jim Henson sent a couple of Twitter messages to Shane Vander Hart and me: My reaction to that — knowing that such a rumor could have no basis in fact — was something like, “WTF?” To which Henson replied: Well, you can’t just […]

A One-Way Ticket to Des Moines …

. . . would cost $249 if I booked today for an Aug. 3 departure from Reagan National in D.C. You may ask, “Why Iowa? Why Aug. 3? Why a one-way ticket?” Here’s the story at The American Spectator: Atlanta businessman Herman Cain will begin a nine-day bus tour of Iowa next week, leading up […]

Iowa Organizer Says He’s ‘100 Percent’ Certain Sarah Palin Is Running

When I called former Des Moines talk-radio host Steve Deace yesterday to talk about recent reports of staff turmoil in the Herman Cain campaign, he told me something that shocked me. And now he has reported it at his Web site: I met recently with attorney Peter Singleton, who has been putting together a grassroots […]

Another Cain Iowa Staffer Resigns

Shane Vander Hart was first to report this: Charlie Gruschow, former leader of the Des Moines Tea Party, resigned from the campaign on Sunday “to pursue other interests.”  Gruschow had been an early supporter and activist for Cain having been with him since last year even though he was only on the payroll since May.  […]

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