The Other McCain

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‘Community Organizing’: Not a Joke

My buddy Matthew Vadum has a new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, and it includes a very interesting passage (p. 27) where Newt Gingrich said Republicans were wrong to treat Obama’s “community organizing” career as a joke: The GOP’s mockery “trivialized Obama and Obama is […]

You Stay Classy: Liberals Now Peddling Gay Smear on Texas Gov. Rick Perry

My reaction on Twitter last night was brief and blunt. It is astounding that they’d do this and I’d rather ignore it altogether, but now the desperate and ridiculous gay smear against Rick Perry has been promoted at both Politico and New York magazine. Isn’t it interesting how so many high-minded journalists who sneered at the Anthony Weiner […]

Gingrich: ‘These Are Supposed to Be Professionals Who We Were Paying’

It’s hard to be sympathetic to Newt Gingrich, but his remarks about campaign staffers and/or consultants who talked trash anonymously to reporters are worth hearing: (From Mediaite with a Twitter hat-tip to Matt Lewis.) Why would anyone hire a consultant or staffer who backstabbed his last boss?

The CNN Debate: Tokyo Survived

Having declared that the debate in Manchester, N.H., would result in Herman Cain stomping the other candidates “like Godzilla stomped Tokyo,” I’m now prepared to admit that the result was not quite so one-sided. However, I don’t get CNN at the house — some glitch in the cable service limits my choices to Fox and MSNBC […]

VIDEO: ABC’s Jake Tapper Reports on Calista and the Newt 2012 Implosion

Watch this — it’s only about 2 minutes — and tell me if you see a way for Newt Gingrich to recover: Meanwhile, in Beverly Hills, California: “I will endure the challenges. I will carry the message of American renewal to every part of this great land,” Gingrich told a crowded ballroom at a Beverly […]

Fred Barnes Puts His Finger On It

And by “it,” I mean, Calista Gingrich: The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate’s wife since 2000. . . . Callista Gingrich gradually emerged as Gingrich’s most influential adviser this year, supplanting longtime […]

Team Newt Implodes: Top Aides Quit Gingrich 2012 Presidential Campaign

This news just broke in the past hour: Republican Newt Gingrich’s senior aides on his presidential campaign have resigned, according to the Associated Press. Press secretary Rick Tyler told the AP that he, campaign manager Rob Johnson said other strategists and aides in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina stepped down. UPDATE: Politico points to […]

NY-26 ELECTION NIGHT HQ
UPDATE: Democrat Hochul Wins

12:30 a.m. ET: The predicted spin from the New York Times: Democrats scored an upset in one of New York’s most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare. 11:45 p.m. ET: Erick Erickson at Red State: […]

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