The Other McCain

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Have the Deciders Decided? Examining the Post-Debate Examinations

JOHNSTOWN, Ohio This morning, I woke up and switched on Fox & Friends and watched them bring on Mitt Romney’s proxy Chris Christie to lead the 8 a.m. hour. Steve Doocy’s first question to Christie — this is from memory, but close enough to an exact quote that I’ll put it inside quotation marks — […]

Romney’s Money Problems — and Mine

Yesterday, I put up a post with this headline: Campaign Cash Shows Unsustainable ‘Burn Rate’ for Romney and Gingrich  What I didn’t realize at the time was that Nate Silver of the New York Times had made the same point yesterday morning: Mitt Romney raised slightly more than his Republican rivals in January. His campaign […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Meanwhile, Back on the Campaign Trail …

Since I returned home from Florida three weeks ago, people have been going nuts, and the stress of being caught in the middle of the escalating insanity is undermining my health. (The sniffles haven’t turned into pneumonia yet, but I’m still worried.) This means there’s only one thing to do: Road trip. Get back on […]

Campaign Cash Shows Unsustainable ‘Burn Rate’ for Romney and Gingrich

Why is Rick Santorum surging in national polls and leading in key primary states? A big part of the explanation is that, during the long months when he campaigned relentlessly despite low poll numbers and a lack of major media attention, Santorum’s operation developed a resourcefulness that his rivals don’t have. Necessity is the mother […]

Poll Proves Mitt’s Mud Gun Works?

The report that Mitt Romney has cut Rick Santorum’s lead from 15 points to 4 points in Michigan goes to show what can be accomplished with a multimillion-dollar attack-ad campaign, especially when those attacks are assisted by Mitt’s friends in the liberal media. However, as Santorum himself has often pointed out during his speeches, Romney […]

‘Top GOP Senator’ Freaks the Hell Out Over Mitt Romney’s Michigan Meltdown

Who is this “prominent Republican senator” who thinks Rick Santorum would “lose 35 states” if he got the nomination? Who is this vicious backstabbing crapweasel who wants to DRAFT JEB BUSH? Lindsey Graham? John Cornyn? Mitch McConnell? Inquiring minds want to know.

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Santorum’s National Iowa-Style Strategy

Andrea Tantaros of Fox News interviews Rick Santorum at CPAC in Washington, D.C., Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 HAGERSTOWN, Maryland Back home from CPAC with about 300 business cards, two days’ growth of beard, and a voice hoarse from rocking out with Chris Cassone at Friday’s “Unsustainable Bar Tab” reception. Also, I’ve got beaucoups of photos and […]

Can You Tell The Difference Between Boxing And A Barroom Brawl?

by Smitty Via Zero Hedge we have yet another fine example of a useless Progressive, if you’ll pardon my pleonasm, here in Global Research by Paul Craig Roberts. The context is the purported threat by the Obama Administration to veto the Defense Authorization Bill, emphasis mine: However, on further reflection I conclude that the Obama regime’s objection […]

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