The Other McCain

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

Newt Gingrich to Democrats: ‘Hey, No Fair Quoting What I Said on National TV!’

“Any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood, because I have said publicly those words were inaccurate and unfortunate.” — Newt Gingrich, in Fox News interview Tuesday UPDATE: Oh, this is classic: Newt’s spokesman Rick Tyler calls Gingrich’s critics “sheep,” whom he accuses of “not wanting to be dropped from the […]

Herman Cain: Georgia GOP Speech

I’d asked around to see if someone had video of the full speech that Herman Cain gave this past weekend at the Georgia State Republican Party Convention in Macon. Thanks to Omega Six for finding it: Isn’t it time you joined the online grassroots army at Citizens for Cain?

Don’t Overthink It, Byron

Byron York has a wonderful interview with Herman Cain, keying off the South Carolina debate: Republican pollster Frank Luntz conducted a focus group on Fox News and found near-unanimous agreement that Cain was the winner. “I’ve done maybe 35 or 40 of these debates for Fox, and I’ve never had this kind of reaction,” Luntz […]

Donald Trump Drops 2012 GOP Campaign, Citing Herman Cain Surge

What? Wait a minute — this can’t be right. I just read the entire official statement in which Donald Trump announced that he won’t be seeking Republican presidential nomination and he didn’t say a single word about the unstoppable momentum of Herman Cain. Never mind. Ed is right: “Hardest hit — Charles Krauthammer?”

Holy Freaking Crap: Time Magazine’s GOP 2012 Chart Omits Herman Cain!

Da Tech Guy points out that Time magazine’s resident political “expert” Mark Halperin has a chart giving odds on candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a chart that completely omits the hands-down winner of the first debate in South Carolina. Halperin also omits Rick Santorum and gives thousand-to-one odds against Michelle Bachmann — and Bachmann, whatever the […]

HUCKABEE WON’T RUN IN 2012

BREAKING . . . UPDATE: Whew! That was scary! Allahpundit had an open thread at Hot Air. If you watched it live on Fox, you know how Huck started talking about polls and his supporters and how he was praying and — for a minute there, I admit it — I was feelin’ the doom. […]

Newt? No Problem.

While I usually quote Time magazine’s David von Drehle only to mock him, he’s inarguably right when he says: The main problem Newt Gingrich faces in his campaign for President is not going to be the number of liberals who don’t like him. It’s going to be the number of conservatives who don’t like him. […]

Eyes of Texas on Herman Cain

A standing overation from a “capacity crowd” at the Austin Economic Club, Bryan Preston reports at PJ Tatler: Cain hit all of the major issues, coming out strong for border security in this border state (“Instead of suing Arizona, they should have gotten a prize!”), hammering away at liberal politicians and policies (“The problem with […]

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