The Other McCain

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Mitt Scratch Fever?

by Smitty Nuge: after a long heart&soul conversation with MittRomney today I concluded this goodman will properly represent we the people & I endorsed him This blog would like to point to a troubling item on Wikipedia: Hearing loss Nugent also suffers from hearing loss. A November 2005 Rolling Stone article noted Nugent, among others, […]

Is Matt Drudge Not A Mitt Romney Fan?

by Smitty Ouch: Quite the triumph of the negative advertising will, Mitt’s 3% victory in Michigan. Alas for Romney, Rick Santorum is the leading Republican presidential contender in Ohio, according to a new survey in the state. The Quinnipiac University poll released Monday showed the former Pennsylvania senator with 36% support among likely Republican primary […]

EXCLUSIVE: Election Day in Hell, Michigan: Does Romney Have a Snowball’s Chance of Winning?

Election Day reporting from Hell, Michigan, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 THREE MILES FROM HELL, Michigan On my way from Troy to Grand Rapids — site of Rick Santorum’s Michigan primary victory party tonight — I got a late start and realized I wouldn’t make it in time for Senator Santorum’s 3 p.m. event at his […]

Santorum Turns the Tables on Mitt in Michigan With Robo-Calls to Democrats

Rick Santorum greets supporters in Lansing, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 “[T]he devastating oppo hit has been the defining characteristic of the Romney campaign since December . . .” — Reid J. Epstein and Zachary Abrahamson, Politico, Feb. 24 “It has been confirmed that a robocall making the rounds in Michigan the day before the state’s […]

Rick Santorum in Lansing, Michigan, Calls Romney’s Attack Ad Campaign a ‘Joke’

Rick Santorum speaks in Lansing, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 LANSING, Michigan Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says it is a “joke” to be accused of liberalism by his rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Speaking the day before Michigan voters go to the polls for Tuesday’s crucial GOP primary, Santorum said he has been “leading, […]

Santorum: The Fight and the Fighter

TROY, Michigan Last night, when I neared the Colonial Valley Suites in Davison, I immediately realized a huge crowd had turned out for Rick Santorum’s event at the Crystal Hall. Cars were parked alongside the road. Pulling over to park the rented Toyota by the roadside, I had to walk a few hundred yards to […]

Celebrating A CoMittMent To Rolling American Exceptionalism

by Smitty In a way, I admire Mitt’s politically incorrect willingness to own cars and homes. It’s not really conspicuous consumption, but it’s far more forthright than, say, a stealth trip to Aspen. On the one hand, I’m not too materialistic, and own a modest sedan. On the other, the notion of private property and […]

Ann Coulter: What?

by Smitty Is free speech a bad thing? The No. 1 conservative talk-radio host in America, Rush Limbaugh, is critical of Romney, and another top conservative talk-radio host, Mark Levin, is adamantly against Romney — though both Limbaugh and Levin supported Romney as the conservative alternative to John McCain in 2008, and Romney has only […]

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