The Other McCain

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

Ah, The Ted Kennedy Criteria

by Smitty (h/t Terry Cowgill at Big Media) Giving Dick Blumenthal the benefit of the doubt, he probably didn’t wake up one morning and say to himself “I wonder if I could score some favor with the Veteran crowd by having them on about my service record. . .” while he was shaving. In general, […]

PA-12: The Final Wisdom

HAGERSTOWN, Md. Back home now, after driving 430 miles in 24 hours for the Election Day swing through Pennsylvania’s 12th District. Am I totally bummed out? Yeah, especially because I spent four hours sleeping in my car at the West Virginia Welcome Center on I-79 after staying until 3:30 a.m. at the post-election bull session. The […]

Matthew Yglesias Asserts That Dale Peterson Is A Dessert Thief!

by Smitty OK, that is the literal value of Matthew Yglesias’s summary of Ben Smith on Peterson’s AgCom ad. Of course, Yglesias meant ‘takes the cake’ in a figurative sense. Yglesias, an Ivy League graduate, and thus my intellectual superior goes on to opine (emphasis mine): special interests (i.e., “thugs and criminals”) benefit from the […]

YouCut: The Auto-Economic-Circumcision Game The Whole Country Can Play

by Smitty The evening Whip-Down brings the details: Today we announced the first YouCut winner, a proposal by Reps. Tom Price and Jim Jordan that would eliminate an unnecessary and duplicative, $2.5 billion welfare program. That proposal garnered over 81,000 votes out of more than 280,000 votes cast. Tomorrow, five new spending cut proposals will […]

PA-12 LIVE Election Results; UPDATE: Democrat Wins; Burns Concedes

WASHINGTON, Pa. Election results online here. 11:30 p.m. ET: Well, everybody else has gone to drown their sorrows, but I’ve still got to hit a late deadline for The American Spectator. A defeat is always harder to report than a victory. Maybe when I get off deadline, I’ll feel better. If anyone feels an overwhelming […]

PA-12: Election Day Scenes

WASHINGTON, Pa. — As reported via phone to Smitty earlier, turnout was light today — considered good news for Tim Burns. Here are some photos from my visit to precincts in Latrobe, Pa., today. Fire station that was 1st Ward polling place in Latrobe. Brian O’Connor of Red Dog Report working for Tim Burns outside the […]

PA-12 VIDEO: Inside Burns HQ

WASHINGTON, Pa. — Just now setting up at the posh George Washington Hotel on Main Street, having just scored this video footage inside the Tim Burns campaign headquarters down the street: Now, all I’ve got to do is to Photoshop an “official” all-access campaign staff credential, and I’ll be in like Flynn . . .

PA-12: Shoe Leather Update. Burns Victory?–UPDATE: 175 Double Votes Due To Ballot Misunderstanding?

by Smitty Stacy McCain talked to a ‘Republican source’ at ~2:00 PM, who said “Turnout was low, which is good for Burns.” Details: He went by Latrobe, PA, and visited three voting locations. This confirmed the low turnout. In the 4th Ward, 987 registered voters. ~200 had voted by 4:00 PM. In the 1st Ward, […]

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