The Other McCain

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Radtke Reports 2nd Quarter Fundraising Numbers for Virginia Senate Campaign

Jamie Radtke is the Tea Party candidate in next year’s Republican primary for the Virginia seat being vacated by the retirement of one-term Democratic Sen. Jim Webb. Her biggest obstacle is overcoming the GOP Establishment’s support for former Sen. George Allen. While many conservatives know and admire Allen personally, Radtke’s grassroots campaign offers an opportunity […]

Carly Fiorina Will Help John Cornyn Guarantee Republican Defeat in 2012

Democrats must be high-fiving each other over this news: National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chairman U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today announced that businesswoman and civic leader Carly Fiorina will join the organization as a Vice Chair for the 2012 election cycle. Serving alongside Cornyn and NRSC Vice Chairman U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Fiorina […]

I Bet Doug Hoffman Is Laughing Today

“The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. . . . Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.” — Hunter S. Thompson, 2003 You remember Doug Hoffman, the Tea Party-backed candidate who […]

Iowa Organizer Says He’s ‘100 Percent’ Certain Sarah Palin Is Running

When I called former Des Moines talk-radio host Steve Deace yesterday to talk about recent reports of staff turmoil in the Herman Cain campaign, he told me something that shocked me. And now he has reported it at his Web site: I met recently with attorney Peter Singleton, who has been putting together a grassroots […]

Another Cain Iowa Staffer Resigns

Shane Vander Hart was first to report this: Charlie Gruschow, former leader of the Des Moines Tea Party, resigned from the campaign on Sunday “to pursue other interests.”  Gruschow had been an early supporter and activist for Cain having been with him since last year even though he was only on the payroll since May.  […]

GOP Fundraising Numbers
UPDATE: Top Cain Iowa Staff Quit UPDATE: Cain Raises $2.4 Million, Spokeswoman Expresses Confidence

Tim Pawlenty is the first of the major GOP candidates to report his second-quarter fundraising numbers: $4.2 million, which isn’t bad — more than a million a month — although less than the $4.5 million Ron Paul’s campaign is reporting for the second quarter. Pawlenty supporters (including co-blogger Smitty) can take heart that their guy […]

Newt’s Jewelry Industry Stimulus Plan

“Employees of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich grew increasingly concerned in recent years about their boss’s purchases from luxury jeweler Tiffany & Co., worried that if he followed through on plans to run for president it could become a political liability. . . . Politico reported a month ago that Gingrich and his wife maintained a […]

Republican Media Slut Tells All

When I was covering the 2006 GOP primary campaign for Georgia lieutenant governor, I was dumbfounded by the decision of Ralph Reed to hire Lisa Baron as his press secretary. Baron had a notoriously bad reputation among Republican operatives, and why Reed would hire her — in a state where social conservatives dominated the GOP […]

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