The Other McCain

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

Florida: Adam Hasner for Senate

In next year’s GOP primary to take on vulnerable Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson, conservatives are rallying behind Adam Hasner as the best hope of avoiding the RINO George Lemieux, who has described himself as a “Charlie Crist Republican“: With several contenders for the Republican nomination, it’s important to unite conservatives behind one candidate to prevent […]

Pawlenty Campaign Broke?

This report from the Washington Post suggests that T-Paw hasn’t exactly been a fundraising superstar: At least five top advisers to former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty have been working for little or no pay for several months, a campaign source said Wednesday. The news establishes with more certainty the emerging portrait of Pawlenty as struggling […]

You Stay Classy: Liberals Now Peddling Gay Smear on Texas Gov. Rick Perry

My reaction on Twitter last night was brief and blunt. It is astounding that they’d do this and I’d rather ignore it altogether, but now the desperate and ridiculous gay smear against Rick Perry has been promoted at both Politico and New York magazine. Isn’t it interesting how so many high-minded journalists who sneered at the Anthony Weiner […]

Palin Parks Her Bus

Scott Conroy of Real Clear Politics — who got an early scoop about the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated — seems mystifed by the pause in her “One Nation” bus tour: Though Palin and her staff never announced a timeline for the remaining legs of her trip, aides had drafted preliminary itineraries that would have […]

Ladd’s Ad Gets Results

And by “results,” I don’t mean merely a cease-and-desist letter from a lawyer for the Los Angeles County Democratic Party. No, as I report at The American Spectator: Tuesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee debuted a new “Hahn Got Me Out” Web site telling 36th District voters: “Janice Hahn helped steer taxpayer money to support violent, […]

Conservative PAC Asks Law Enforcement to Investigate DOS Attack on Web Site

When the Turn Right USA political action committee (TRUSA-PAC) launched their controversial online video ad attacking Democratic congressional candidate Janice Hahn last week, TRUSA-PAC experienced a denial-of-service (DOS) attack that prevented people from reaching their Web site. Now the PAC is asking the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to investigate the hacker attack: Turn […]

Gingrich: ‘These Are Supposed to Be Professionals Who We Were Paying’

It’s hard to be sympathetic to Newt Gingrich, but his remarks about campaign staffers and/or consultants who talked trash anonymously to reporters are worth hearing: (From Mediaite with a Twitter hat-tip to Matt Lewis.) Why would anyone hire a consultant or staffer who backstabbed his last boss?

CA-36: Hahn’s Bad Rap?

The Torrance (Calif.) Daily Breeze has an article that would appear to exonerate Democrat Janice Hahn of accusations that her “gang-intervention specialist” program abetted violent felons. I say it “would appear to exonerate” her, because the article leaves unanswered several questions raised by previous reports about Hahn’s involvement in the program. In an attempt to […]

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