The Other McCain

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

Sources Close to Christina Hendricks Could Not Be Reached for Comment

When you’re seeking a metaphor for “no chance in hell,” certain impossible scenarios immediately come to mind, which was what I was aiming for in my American Spectator column today: Monday, Carl Cameron of Fox News was the vehicle by which “sources close to the Gingrich campaign” floated a trial balloon, suggesting that former House […]

Why Did the Santorum Campaign Leak Its Strategy Memo to Liberal Media First?

Before I wrote this post, I checked to make sure that I hadn’t somehow missed an e-mail from the Santorum campaign, which I hadn’t. And I haven’t missed any phone calls from them, either. So how to explain why they would have released an important strategy memo to Politico, rather than sending it to me, […]

‘Alabama Deserves Better’

A congressman under investigation for insider trading? Suspected of enriching himself in office? Say it ain’t so, Spencer Bachus! The New York Times reports: In Alabama, Representative Spencer Bachus, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is squaring off against State Senator Scott Beason, an architect of Alabama’s tough illegal immigration bill, who is running […]

Expectations, Inc.

Ed Morrissey on tomorrow’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi: Gingrich really needs to win both states to remain in the race, or split them with Santorum at worst case. If Romney wins in Alabama, he can claim to have won in every part of the country, while Gingrich can’t even claim to have won all […]

Rick Santorum’s Daughter Elizabeth Will Campaign for Her Father in Hawaii

This news was announced Saturday night: The former Pennsylvania senator broke the news about his daughter while standing on stage at a campaign rally in Missouri with his wife, Karen, and second-oldest child, John. “John just said to me there is an advantage of being the oldest,” Santorum joked. I’ve contacted my editors at The […]

SANTORUM SCORES ‘DECISIVE’ WIN IN KANSAS REPUBLICAN CAUCUSES

Headline from the New York Times: Santorum Takes a Decisive Victory in Kansas Caucuses Now the story from the Wall Street Journal: OLATHE, Kan.—Rick Santorum easily won the Republican presidential caucuses in Kansas on Saturday as the front-runner, Mitt Romney, didn’t campaign the state. . . . With 95% of precincts reporting, Mr. Santorum had 51% […]

Why the Heck Does Guam Get Nine Delegates to the Republican Convention?

No senators, no congressmen, no Electoral College representation, and yet Guam gets nine delegates? And all of them for Romney? Hey, can we sell Guam to somebody? I mean, why not? We won it fair and square in the Spanish-American War and now we’ve got a budget deficit. What’s Guam done for us lately?  Maybe China’s in […]

If Rick Santorum Wins Kansas …

. . . it will add to the valuable perception of renewed momentum he got from his strong showing on Super Tuesday, when he won primaries in Tennessee and Oklahoma, as well as the North Dakota caucuses, came within 1% of Romney in Ohio, and ran a strong second nearly everywhere else. And it looks […]

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