The Other McCain

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Staff: The Tea Party Express Bus Tour Is Veering North Of Us This Time
Patrick Murray: Then We Do Our Own

by Smitty The Tea Party Express is rolling through some of the bluest Congressional districts on its fourth trek leading up to the election. What a great job they’ve done the last couple of years, keeping the Tea Party spirit alive. They can’t make it everywhere, though, and let’s face it: Beltway traffic around DC […]

Room Under The Bus For As Many Elites As Required

by Smitty Does the Progressive wing, breast, and thigh of the GOP not get it? Belvedere reports that Senator Gregg is making squishy noises in the vicinity of the Depends at the thought of repealing ObamaCare. Paco points to Rush Limbaugh, emphasis mine: Well, now it’s official. The elites in the GOP want to compromise […]

Is Jillian Bandes Stalking Marco Rubio?

The intrepid Townhall reporter is following him all over Florida while singing silly love songs in her car: We can forgive Jillian if she seems a wee bit obsessed. Marco had us at “hello,” and few developments of the mid-term campaign are more encouraging for conservatives than the success of Rubio, who inspired the “Not One […]

Can George Allen Stage A Comeback?

by Smitty The Virginia Conservative highlights a FaceBook group “Republicans Against a George Allen comeback” and floats the question about whether he can be rehabilitated. A couple of points about ol’ George He got royally screwed in 2006 by the single most extreme case of yellow journalism I have ever seen. Three syllables. Six letters. […]

A Ronald Reagan Tribute From Daniel Hannan

by Smitty Reagan and his ranch feature prominently in I Want Your Money, as well as this splendid post by Hannan: The casual visitor wouldn’t guess that this had been the home of the leader of the free world, this the table where the greatest tax cut in America’s history was signed into law, this […]

‘I Want Your Money’ Was On The Money, Indeed

by Smitty I give it eight out of ten on IMDB. The movie essentially juxtaposes the Gipper and BHO personally, while building a mostly linear historical framework of Progressivism in which to drop the ideological conflict. I Want Your Money works for at least three audiences: Conservatives will have a blast enjoying Reagan, McCotter, Gingrich […]

Marco Rubio: Sincere, Passionate, Articulate

by Smitty (via The Lonely Conservative) After Crist gets done repeating a completely cheesy accusation from a Hispanic newspaper, Rubio looks about ready to come across the table and flog the orange clean off the guy: Rubio: champ Crist: chump Kendrick Meek sounds like a decent guy in all this, but, of the three, Rubio […]

If You Have Materially Supported Candidate(s), You Can Watch This

by Smitty Phone banking last night consisted of rounding up support for lawn sign assembly today. Presumably, we’ll be hitting the district Saturday with intent to distribute. Signs. Here is some eye candy for those who have earned it, via Ace: Usual disclaimers: Don’t get cocky. Stand by for one mother of a hangover once […]

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