The Other McCain

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

GOP Presidential Primary Apocalypse

Tim Pawlenty’s former campaign staff is reportedly hoping to join the campaign of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. This is amusing: Who wants to start their campaign with a team of losers? It’s also pathetic: Unemployed campaign staffers pinning their future hopes on a guy who has repeatedly said he is not running for president. […]

Piers Morgan Really Likes Masturbation (And Really Hates Christine O’Donnell)

Making the media rounds to promote her new book Troublemaker, 2012 Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell appeared on CNN with Piers Morgan, who decided that he needed to grill O’Donnell about masturbation and whether she had “committed lust”: What an annoying twerp. This is not only offensive, it’s boring. There are far more interesting questions […]

The Uninformed Rick Perry

by Smitty ABC has the news of Rick Perry in New Hampshire: When Rick Perry arrived in New Hampshire one day ago, he repeated the state’s “live free or die” motto, telling an audience, “You’ve got to love that. What Perry may not have loved, however, is the treatment he received just 24-hours later at […]

I Would Very Much Like to Say That Janeane Garofalo Has Lost Her Mind …

. . . but there isn’t much evidence that she was ever entirely sane: Last night, on failed MSNBC talk host Keith Olbermann’s new Current TV show (a network with less viewers than MSNBC), Janeane Garofalo said Herman Cain must be getting paid to run, has Stockholm Syndrome and that the Tea Party and Conservative […]

Attention, ‘Young Hotties’ Who Have Had Sex With a Certain Texas Governor

Ron Paul supporter Robert Morrow took out a newspaper ad seeking women who can expose Gov. Rick Perry as a hypocrite: HAVE YOU EVER HAD SEX WITH RICK PERRY? Are you a stripper, an escort, or just a “young hottie” impressed by an arrogant, entitled governor of Texas? . . . [W]e will help you […]

Malkin Not Keen on ‘Governor Gardasil’

The Boss went after Rick Perry for imposing mandatory vaccination with Gardasil on 12-year-old girls. Gardasil protects against human pappiloma virus (HPV, genital warts) and, at the time of the 2007 decision, social conservatives were outraged by the idea of requiring that girls so young be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease. Libertarians were outraged […]

Herman Cain ‘Common Sense Solutions’ Bus Tour Heads to New Hampshire Friday

While the incumbent is running around the Midwest blaming the Tea Party for unemployment, Herman Cain gets ready to head to the Granite State and talk about how jobs are really created. Here’s the press release from the Cain campaign: Cain Announces New Hampshire Stops of “Common Sense Solutions” Bus Tour (Stockbridge, GA)- Republican presidential […]

Michelle Goldberg and ‘The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Evangelicalism’

Da Tech Guy yesterday made passing reference to something I had previously noticed but chosen to ignore: Michelle Goldberg’s article at the Daily Beast warning that both Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry are in league with “some of America’s most radical theocrats.” Can we just call this what it is, namely fear-mongering and bigotry against devout […]

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