The Other McCain

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

Unpopular Former Republican Governor Endorses Unpopular Democrat President

TAMPA, Florida Charlie Crist, who lost the 2010 Senate campaign to Marco Rubio, publishes his endorsement on the editorial page of today’s Tampa Bay Times: As America prepares to pick our president for the next four years — and as Florida prepares once again to play a decisive role — I’m confident that President Barack Obama […]

Democrats: Allen West Is Willie Horton!

Remember when I said that Obama super-PAC ad had scraped all the way through the bottom of the barrel? Now Democrats are running an ad that shows Rep. Allen West beating up white women and stealing their money: More at The Lonely Conservative and Legal Insurrection. What strikes me about this ad is how it is coordinated […]

‘Real’ Conservatives Of The Sunshine State, Crist Edition

by Smitty Former Florida Governor and Anderson Cooper wannabee Charlie Crist was on The Shark Tank’s radar: Crist recently gave a ‘full-throated’ endorsement of Senator Bill Nelson over Connie Mack, and Speaker Weatherford offered his take on Crist’s “evolution”- I guess it’s his coming out party, so to speak, so he is coming out and […]

Question the Timing (and Sample): Poll Shows Obama Leading in Swing States

You will remember that Democrats were panicking last month at the realization that Mitt Romney and the GOP outraised the DNC/Obama team in June, and that Obama’s unsustainable “burn rate” — pouring on a 2-to-1 ad blitz — had failed to move independent voters. Everything the Dems had done was being sabotaged by Obama’s tone-deaf “you didn’t […]

Florida: The Creepy State

Shaped like a flaccid penis, this geographical appendage has apparently become the receptable of all perverse weirdness on the East Coast. Exhibit A — The Creepy Puppeteer: A Florida puppeteer known for community involvement was arrested and charged with conspiring to kidnap a child and possession of child pornography, according to a criminal complaint filed in […]

Mark Oxner Ad: Pure Awesome. Or Is That Orwellian Fright?

by Smitty This is both a political ad against Alan Grayson, and a sobering vignette that holds true for the whole country: Mark Oxner for Congress Alan Grayson’s reasonable future job is Barack Obama’s caddy

Florida Source: Sex Accusation Against Lieutenant Governor ‘Total Bullsh*t’

Just talked to a Florida source who assures me that there is no truth to the accusations made against Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll. The claim, made by a disgruntled ex-employee, that Carroll had a lesbian affair with her assistant Beatriz Ramos is “total bullsh*t,” my source says. Known to friends as “Bibi,” Ramos is […]

Florida: The Crazy State

The competition for Craziest State in the Union has always been fierce. It has been said that South Carolina is too small to be a republic, but too large to be a lunatic asylum. Yet in recent decades, California has been recognized as foremost in sheer madness, rivaled only by Louisiana. Now, however, California must yield the […]

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