The Other McCain

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FMJRA 2.0: Ghosts

Posted on | February 12, 2012 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Santorum Surge Returns: Wins Missouri, Minnesota; UPDATE: Wins Colorado UPDATE: NY Times ‘Unexpectedly!’

Newt’s Narcissism Problem (and Ours)

My Take On The Birth Control And Prop. 8 Decisions

Lying With Numbers: How Obama Has Corrupted the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Only Roseanne Barr Can Save Us From The Chinese Pollution Menace!

Zilla On A Stand-Alone Site

Due To Unpopular Demand, The World’s Youngest Blogger May Not Attend CPAC

FMJRA 2.0: Sirens Of The Sea

Mitt Romney Wins Nevada Caucuses; Gingrich Blames Mormons for His Loss

Hate Hoax Busted by Cop’s Dash-Cam (Also: You Idiots, Get Out of My Way!)

Dick Armey on Newt Gingrich: ‘Taking a Second-Rate Campaign and Turning It into a First-Rate Vendetta’

‘It Looks Like I’m in the Process
of Getting Completely Boned’

Rule 5 Sunday: Patience

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.06.12

Ed Morrissey, Phyllis Schlafly, Michelle Malkin, David Limbaugh, Tom Tancredo: Gosh, Everybody’s for Santorum Now!

The World’s Youngest Blogger Can’t Figure Out Why This TV Is Such A Bore

Gingrich’s Glass Jaw

Geriatric Halftime Show

Quaff That Kool-Aid!

So, After The Left Has Politicized Everything, They Have The Sack To Whine About Those Seeing Political Overtones In Eastwood’s Superbowl Ad

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.07.12

Today’s Metaphor For Progress

VIDEO: Was Ann Coulter Right?

Saint Charles, Martyr of LGF

I Guess DeMint Isn’t Endorsing Romney

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.08.12

Does It Make Eastwood A Bigger Chump Than Griffith, Though?

Quote of the Day

CPAC Is Already Happening

Separated At Birth, Robert Reich Edition

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.09.12

Stacy’s CPAC Tour

CPAC: Too Much Fun to Describe

First Daniel Hannan Pic!

A Tale Of Two Viral Ads–Mark Oxner In Florida, Brian K. Hill In Connecticut

LIVE AT FIVE – 02.10.12

Celebrating The Crowd At CPAC, iv
The Ideas, Reasoning Power, and Imagination of Crowds

Vote Obama, So That That The ACORN-Sponsored Pre-Teen, Undocumented Prostitutes Can Keep The American Holocaust Going Strong

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Goes Worldwide: Meets With Japanese Tea Party Leaders

It Was Almost My Pulitzer Moment Covering #Occupy, But Then It Turned Into A Madison Rising Groove

Top linkers this week:

  1. Katy Pundit (10)
  2. Daily Pundit (8)
  3. (tied)Don Surber, Lonely Conservative,  and The Camp Of The Saints (7)
  4. The Conservatory (6)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline for submitting links for next week’s FMJRA will be Friday, February 25.

Category: FMJRA Award

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Santorum’s National Iowa-Style Strategy

Posted on | February 12, 2012 | 17 Comments

Andrea Tantaros of Fox News interviews Rick Santorum
at CPAC in Washington, D.C., Friday, Feb. 10, 2012

HAGERSTOWN, Maryland
Back home from CPAC with about 300 business cards, two days’ growth of beard, and a voice hoarse from rocking out with Chris Cassone at Friday’s “Unsustainable Bar Tab” reception. Also, I’ve got beaucoups of photos and videos that I was unable to upload during the conference due to frustration with bandwidth issues. (Wombat suggests that it was my equipment rather than the WiFi connection that sucked. However, it is a curious fact that as soon as I hooked up the trusty Toshiba Satellite to my home network, it worked perfectly.)

Smitty previously noted that Rick Santorum has taken his first lead in a national poll — you can see the full breakdown at Public Policy Polling (PDF file) — and I would further suggest that you keep an eye on polls in Michigan over the next week or so. The current Real Clear Politics average has Santorum in fourth place, but all of the polls included in the RCP average date back to late January/early February, before Newt Gingrich’s embarrassment in Nevada, and before Santorum’s Tuesday hat trick in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri.

Sources close to the Santorum campaign say they’re going to challenge Romney in Michigan, which may seem like a kamikaze mission in Romney’s home state, but Santorum believes his message can win over blue-collar voters in the industrial Midwest — a belief that would appear to have been ratified in Minnesota and Missouri. Although the odds are long, Santorum will campaign hard in Michigan, which holds its primary Feb. 28, knowing that if he can upset Mitt there . . . well, game on.

Money? Extrapolating from early reports and cryptic hints from sources close to the campaign, I believe Santorum raised $5 million online last week, and when I talked Saturday morning to a top official with Santorum’s direct mail team, his comment was, “I can’t wait until Monday.” The boost Santorum got from last week’s hat-trick would obviously take a few days to produce a response from folks whose contributions involve checks sent by snail mail, and his team expects a huge influx of such contributions to come pouring in Monday and continuing through the week. Read more

Category: CPAC, Election 2012, Idaho, Michigan, Rick Santorum, Vanuatu, Washington State

Post-CPAC Rack

Posted on | February 12, 2012 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

A little nap with the World’s Youngest Blogger after church on Sunday. Frequent commenter and very old friend Jeff had dropped Da Tech Guy by somewhere around midnight. We rolled out around 0630 to get Pete to Mass at the Basilica, while I went to my heretical little Baptist house of worship, bringing up #Occupy in the context of Romans 13 in Sunday school.

When you’re this charismatically challenged, you need all the beauty sleep you can get:

Also, a shout out frequent commenter, TR Sterling, who brought brownies to CPAC: they were real, and they were fabulous. Spot on, mate!

Category: CPAC

Rick Santorum Takes First National Lead

Posted on | February 12, 2012 | 29 Comments

by Smitty

Santorum leads Mitt Romney 38 percent to 23 percent in the new poll, while Gingrich is in third place with 17 percent.

The two crucial points here are:

  1. Keep up the doubt about Rick Santorum. We must accept whatever our Ruling Class Overlords tell us. Pay no attention to these numbers.
  2. Continue to heap abuse upon Stacy McCain. He likes it. His quest for recognition of his skill and acumen is purely superficial; and attempt to hide his masochism.

via Vision to America via reaganpal157

Category: Republicans, Rick Santorum

ProEnglish Is Sensible

Posted on | February 11, 2012 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

It is one thing to celebrate diversity; to enjoy and study foreign languages and cultures. It is quite another to weaken the cohesiveness of the country, decrease efficiency, and bloat bureaucracies with government positions that add no economic value to the country.

I enjoyed a short chat at CPAC with Robert Vandervoort of ProEnglish, who touts Rep. Steve King’s bill to address the issue.

Category: CPAC

You Make The Call: Is This The Most Raaaaacist Vehicle In America?

Posted on | February 11, 2012 | 7 Comments

by Smitty

  • Criticism of the POTUS is raaaaacist.
  • The POTUS and cretinbeing bearing the title Attorney General are of similar racial background.
  • This vehicle appears critical of the one called Attorney General, whose arguments have the weight of something ducked up. Therefore, these vehicles arguments are made of raaaaacist wood, meaning the vehicle is something which must be burned.

On a tangentially related note, this blog has received a review copy of The Whistleblower. I haven’t seen yet where, if at all, Eric Holder is mentioned.
However, as a guy who is both deeply familiar with Presidential pardons and buried in kimchi a few feet over his head at the moment, you sort of know that there is going to be a big fat pardon coming to him in a fast and furious fashion.
Category: Books, Eric Holder

BREAKING: ROMNEY WINS CPAC STRAW POLL, SANTORUM A CLOSE SECOND

Posted on | February 11, 2012 | 25 Comments

–by Wombat-socho


“It’s A Two-Man Race Now,” Stacy McCain declares


Earthquake Thursday in Vanuatu: A sign and a portent?


Just announced at CPAC: Mitt Romney wins 38% of the straw poll vote at CPAC, followed by Rick Santorum at 31%. Newt Gingrich placed third with 15% and perennial CPAC straw poll winner Ron Paul a distant fourth with 13%. More details in this article at the Washington Times.

Category: CPAC, Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Vanuatu

The Wireless Golgotha Of Stacy McCain

Posted on | February 11, 2012 | 13 Comments

— filed by Wombat-socho


While our Fearless Leader is out soothing his nerves with a smoke, I’ll chip in with a few comments about my first CPAC here at the Marriott Washington Wardman Park. In some ways, this is kind of a homecoming for me; when I was a young joey, I used to come down to what was then the Sheraton Park Hotel for science fiction conventions. Back then, the layout of the Sheraton Park was byzantine at best, being the fusion of an old 1920s hotel and a newer motel; nowadays, the Marriott has preserved that maze of interior hallways and function spaces. You definitely need a map to find your way around.


Stacy is more than a little frustrated by the lack of bandwidth, but I suspect this has more to do with his laptop than the actual lack of signal. The ACU has done a good job with Blogger’s Row; there are about 150 spaces here with wi-fi access and power strips aplenty, the only catch being that you need the Secret Elder Sign available only by pre-registering as an Authorized Blogger, and somehow I missed that link. Anyway, Stacy managed to get me and Faithful Commenter Jeff W. in past the badgers. In addition to the space on Blogger Row, there are two overflow blogging areas on either side of the main ballroom, where power plugs are a bit awkwardly placed, but wifi is likewise abundant.


Been lucky enough so far to meet quite a few of the big names in the dextrosphere such as Val Prieto, Da Tech Guy, Little Miss Attila, and Cynthia Yockey, so on those grounds alone CPAC 2012 is a win for me. Next year, of course, when I hope to be a feelthy rich CPA type, I look forward to being here for the whole five-ring circus. In the meantime, I’m just hanging loose and standing by to render assistance to Stacy, if he needs it.


Possibly related: the FMJRA may be delayed until tomorrow night, and Rule 5 until Monday, due to my DSL modem dying the real death.
Thoroughly unrelated: is there any interest in starting a fantasy baseball league on here?

Category: Blogging, CPAC
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