The Other McCain

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

UPDATE: Newt’s Populist Turn

FORT MYERS, Fla. 6:51 p.m. ET: During his speech today at Page Field, Newt Gingrich spun a conspiratorial view of the opposition to him, saying that Mitt Romney’s campaign is using “recycled” bailout money to attack him. Saying that Goldman Sachs chose Barack Obama in 2008, Gingrich said the giant Wall Street bank — using […]

Vessels For Altering The American Political Course

by Smitty When the history of the American recovery is written, Ladd Ehlinger will certainly have a paragraph or five, given his highly refined anti-establishment antics. Leapfrogging the traditional approach to political ads is Turn This Ship Around, which is a basic ad memorable for its images of children as galley slaves of a piratical […]

Cynthia Yockey Compiles the Headlines (With Gratuituous Cheesecake, Too)

NAPLES, Fla. A couple days ago, on my drive from Jacksonville to Orlando, Cynthia Yockey and I had a phone conversation that eventually turned to the question of what she could do in the way of revenue enhancement. “Look, give me a good daily headline aggregation of campaign news,” I said. “With all this running […]

The Curmudgeon Talks About BHO’s Numbers Like They Are A Bad Thing

by Smitty A helpful summary for your dyed-in-the-wool Lefty friends: If only white males can be racist, the question becomes: how did white males hijack Arabic numerals, and does this count both as raaaaacism and Islamophobia? This blog calls on the entire internet to end the h8.

Daily Pundit: Let’s Think This Through

by Smitty I said I care that people vote, but not for whom they vote. You reply: Man, you can’t really mean that. You don’t care for whom people vote? You talk a lot about your knowledge of history, and yet you’ve forgotten all those cases where people have voted themselves into the most atrocious […]

Galt’s Girl Just Doesn’t Get The Suck

by Smitty Galt’s Girl, at Conservative Daily News, is missing out on one of the prime tools for staying optimistic when the ship is doing that earth-quake like shudder, as when trading paint with an immovable object: Note: this screencap precedes the Twitter blackout, which I will be supporting.

Baseball Crank Explains It All

— by Wombat-socho Well, as much as anyone can explain what’s going on with the GOP and its primary voters this election season. I readily admit I’m a sucker for blog posts like these; everybody who writes books about our party seems to be either a) an insider with an axe to grind or b) […]

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 […]

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