The Other McCain

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

Be Ye Not Dismayed

Smitty jumped on Dave Weigel for his “trolling” article, and I’ll let that stand, except to add that Weigel seems to be advocating that mainstream journalism adopt an even more stringently pro-Democrat “message discipline” — as if, for example, having Soledad O’Brein literally reading liberal blogs on the air at CNN is insufficient proof of their abject partisanship. […]

Kimberlin-Rauhauser Axis Targets Romney Campaign Staffer Bill Murphy

Brett Kimberlin could have been sentenced to 230 years in federal prison Brett Kimberlin’s non-profit 501(c)4 Velvet Revolution is part of an apparent effort to destroy Mitt Romney’s online rapid-response team by targeting Bill Murphy, a young Internet operative who has helped improve the campaign’s social-media presence. In an item posted Saturday on the Democratic […]

RNC Hangover: You Gotta Believe

Last guy in the Press Filing Center, 1 a.m., Friday, Aug. 31, 2012 “There was never enough time. Every deadline was a crisis. All around me were experienced professional journalists meeting deadlines far more frequent than mine, but I was never able to learn from their example.” – Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on […]

COMPLETE TEXT: MITT ROMNEY’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION

TAMPA, Florida: Text provided by the Romney campaign: Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility. Tonight I am asking you to […]

COMPLETE TEXT: MARCO RUBIO’S SPEECH TO THE GOP CONVENTION

TAMPA, Florida Text provided by the Republican National Convention: In 1980, I watched my first Republican convention with my grandfather. He was born to a farming family in rural Cuba. Childhood polio left him permanently disabled. Because he couldn’t work the farm, his family sent him to school, and he became the only one in […]

RNC DAY 1.5: Baseless Speculation
UPDATE: Romney Officially Nominated as Republican Presidential Candidate

TAMPA, Florida OK, we’ll count Monday as a half-day, and I apologize for the late start today, but schmoozing and socializing with colleagues and sources is part of the job. There will be actual news here momentarily, I promise, but first: Baseless speculation from Jim Geraghty! Buried deep in the convention schedule released Monday is […]

New Romney Ad Quotes Obama

TAMPA, Florida Barack Obama became president by attacking what have since become his own policies. In 2008, candidate Obama accused John McCain of planning “drastic cuts in Medicare, $882 billion worth.” President Obama has cut $716 billion from MediCare to pay for ObamaCare, as the Mitt Romney campaign reminds voters in a new ad:

Let The GOP Airbrushing Begin

by Smitty The Franklin Center points to Florida Watchdog: The many months of attempting to find the “anti-Romney,” the candidate without a large state government health care plan or a more liberal governing record in his past, seem to have been unsuccessful. As foretold by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat in November 2011, the […]

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