The Other McCain

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

Charlie Crist: Is He Or Is He Ain’t?

Crist’s political orientation is currently more ambiguous than Elena Kagan’s sexuality, and the soon-to-be-former Republican governor of Florida is being rather coy about his much-rumored independent run for Senate: “I’m being very thoughtful and deliberate,” Crist explains. “I’ve got a big decision to make. I haven’t concluded anything yet, but I’m getting a lot of counsel, […]

How Stupid Is Charlie Crist?

Stupid enough to think he can get elected as an independent: Top GOP officials in DC now believe it is a virtual certainty that FL Gov. Charlie Crist (R) will bolt the GOP and run instead as an independent, sources tell Hotline OnCall. Over the weekend, Crist pulled TV advertisements that had been running in […]

Sunshine Götterdämmerung: Crist to Announce Independent Senate Bid Today?

Via Hot Air Headlines comes this weird story from Orlando: Dr. Rick Foglesong is the President of the faculty at Rollins College, one of our political analysts who has time and time again predicted a run by the governor as an Independent. And now, he says he has a source inside the Crist campaign staff. […]

‘Say, Do You Know a Guy . . .’

“. . . named Ali Akbar?” asked Don Strong, toward the end of a long phone call tonight. I had been driving east on I-40 in Tennessee when I pulled over to spend an hour talking to Rick Moran on his Blog Talk Radio program. Afterwards, I went to gas up the car and grab a […]

Fireworks in AL-5 GOP Candidate Forum; What Was Mo Brooks Trying to Say?

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Candidates in the three-way GOP primary in Alabama’s 5th District traded sharp jabs Monday night in a candidate forum at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, with ex-Democrat Rep. Parker Griffith trying to establish his conservative bona fides against Mo Brooks and Les Phillip. At one point, Griffith offered a “unity” pledge that he asked the other […]

My Emergency Evacuation: Good-Bye to the Big Easy; Hello, Sweet Home Alabama

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — I’m blogging from the studios of WTKI 1490 AM, where today I was a guest on the Film Ladd radio show, a fantastic multimedia experience — radio, chatroom, live video camera. The host, Ladd Ehlinger, is a brilliant independent film director and all-around virtuoso. Ladd called me Sunday morning while I was on […]

New Orleans: Random Man on the Street, and More News You Can Abuse

NEW ORLEANS — When everybody’s going for the Big Story in the pack-journalism scrum — Romney wins SRLC straw poll! Ron Paul says wacky stuff! — my counter-intuitive instinct is to look for offbeat angles that nobody else reports. What an amazing coincidence, huh? And ladies, there’s good news: So even though conservative heart-throbs like Marco Rubio, Scott Brown and […]

OK, Now That Stupak’s Gone, Who Wants to Beat Another Blue Dog Democrat?

His name is Rep. John Barrow, and he’s from Georgia’s 12th District. Say hello to his Republican challenger, Ray McKinney, a nuclear power project manager from Emanuel County, Ga.: Peach Pundit blogged about Ray’s campaign earlier this week, and I reported that — happy! happy! joy! joy! — MoveOn.org is preparing to attack Barrow from […]

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