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, […]

Power

by Smitty This is the unifying theme of the Ruling Class: acquisition, excercise, and retention of political power, at the expense of the individual. This post is me thinking out loud about how the Ruling Class views the populace. Existence, in brief Consider the human existential situation. We have to start with the individual before […]

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% […]

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 […]

How Many GOP Delegates in Oz?

An important question, because Newt is not in Kansas anymore: The Gingrich campaign is cancelling all Kansas events to focus on Mississippi and Alabama. KS caucuses Sat. Miss, Ala primaries Tues. That’s via Twitchy, a new social-media site that I learned about via Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints, who got it from Michelle Malkin, […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: ‘Committing Acts of Journalism’

Recording a press gaggle with Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley, Steubenville, Ohio, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 (Photo by Chris Moody) WASHINGTON, Pennsylvania We got to our hotel here about 1:30 a.m., after a 35-mile drive from Steubenville, Ohio, scene of last night’s victory celebration for The Next President of the United States, Rick Santorum. My 13-year-old […]

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