The Other McCain

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

C-3PO Raids the Death Star

Allahpundit trembles between fear and hope: Has there ever been a campaign that went, literally overnight, from being about nothing to leaping neck-deep into the most treacherous, dangerous issue in American politics? Until [Friday] night, I thought Romney was running for president because he wanted to be president, full stop. Everything about him suggested personal ambition […]

Secret Service Code Name: ‘Dreamy’

MANASSAS, Virginia — Just left a Romney-Ryan rally in downtown Manassas. The crowd was huge, numbering in the thousands. Other reporters kept trying to make an estimate of the numbers, and all I could say was, “overflow.” The crowd filled the pavillion and overflowed off in every direction. People stood in line for blocks in […]

New Democrat Campaign Message: Grandma, Cliff, Some Assembly Required

Members of the Democrat-Media Complex like Charles Pierce of Esquire and James Fallows of the Atlantic are already registering their disdain of Paul Ryan, and the Democrats are busy e-mailing their massive oppo-research PDF dossier to reporters, so the media attacks on Ryan are pre-scripted dictation from the DNC research department. This is predictable, and […]

The Hashtag That Changed History

“This is an emergency post. . . . Mitt Romney must choose Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential nominee, period.” — Robert Stacy McCain, Aug. 4, 2012 Who would have thunk it, huh? Friday night I went to bed early, and Ali Akbar kept calling to tell me the news, but my wife couldn’t […]

Romney Ad: ‘America Deserves Better’

My shock at the raw dishonesty of the Democrats — and polls indicating that Americans have become indifferent to truth — is evidently shared by the Romney campaign: The Romney campaign supplies the script of the ad: AD FACTS: Script For “America Deserves Better” VOICEOVER: “What does it say about a president’s character when his campaign tries to […]

Democrats: Allen West Is Willie Horton!

Remember when I said that Obama super-PAC ad had scraped all the way through the bottom of the barrel? Now Democrats are running an ad that shows Rep. Allen West beating up white women and stealing their money: More at The Lonely Conservative and Legal Insurrection. What strikes me about this ad is how it is coordinated […]

Polls Confirm: America Loves Liars

Is anyone else troubled by the evidence that this lie-a-minute strategy by the Obama campaign is working? The CNN poll shows Obama leading by 7 points and the Fox News poll shows him ahead by 9 points, and I’m at a loss to think of anything in the past couple of weeks that could have moved […]

Cave To Conservatives Or CAVE ASINI

by Smitty Emphasis mine Emerging media narrative: If Romney picks Ryan, it will be because he caved to conservative pressure. ow.ly/cRrqOh/t @ryanlizza — Byron York (@ByronYork) August 9, 2012 Which conservatives are those? The ones who rocked the 2010 election, the ones who put Cruz on the ballot in Texas, or the ones who supported […]

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