The Other McCain

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

Why Would Mitt Romney’s Campaign Manager Deliberately Insult Me?

After nearly two months of being up to my eyeballs in the Brett Kimberlin story, and becoming concerned about symptoms of journalistic burnout, yesterday I decided it’s about time to hit the road and do some campaign trail reporting. So I called up one of my contacts with the Mitt Romney presidential campaign and talked […]

Mitt Romney: Scrappy Underdog?

Today I watched Mitt Romney’s speech to the NAACP convention and was impressed that he did not pander. Yes, portions of his speech were aimed specifically at his audience — Romney talked a lot about education reform as a means of promoting opportunity — but for the most part, Mitt gave his standard Republican stump speech, […]

Federal Bureaucracy: Doomsday Machine

by Smitty Echoing VodkaPundit’s rejection of Star Wars (I have never esteemed it above mildly entertaining space opera, myself) we’re going reaching back to Denny Crane’s old show for a metaphor to mock Politico’s risible title: “Southern governors secede from Medicaid” Wow, what an absurd headline. Really shameful. politi.co/OYZXzs — Lachlan Markay (@LachlanMarkay) July 11, […]

Permit Me to Remind You: Obama Still Has More Campaign Cash Than Mitt

A fact I pointed out yesterday: [T]he Obama campaign entered June with a cash-on-hand advantage of more than $90 million ($109 million to Romney’s $17 million). And during May, Team Obama out-spent Team Mitt by nearly $30 million ($44.6 million to Romney’s $15.6 million). Keep that in mind when you read this: Senior White House adviser […]

Team Obama: ‘Ruh-Roh’

Ed Morrissey has the e-mail from the Obama campaign confessing that Romney and the RNC outraised them by $35 million in June. Politico‘s Byron Tau calls it “a sign that the Obama campaign may continue to be outraised all the way until November.” Before Republicans start high-fiving each other in premature celebration, however, let me […]

MSM Meme: Oh, Noes! Rich People Are Giving Money to Republicans!

Just look at the Memeorandum headline aggregation: Protesters raise cloud of sand as Romney raises $3 million in N.Y. — Los Angeles Times Romney Mines the Hamptons for Campaign Cash — New York Times Protesters demonstrate outside of Koch fund-raiser for Romney — CNN Protesters! The Koch Brothers! The Hamptons! Three million dollars! The innocent […]

Reminder: VA Must Elect George Allen

by Smitty Via Sissy Willis on Twitter, Quinn Hillyer points out at AmSpec just how wretched an abortion is ObamaDon’tCare. In particular, the roots of the the Senate circumstances go back to 2006: . . .the Washington Post had to succeed in its unprecedentedly and viciously unfair coverage of the U.S. Senate race in Virginia, […]

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Dick Morris Thinks ObamaCare, Tim Kaine, And ObamaNomics Are Swell

by Smitty Oh, wait: make that ‘Swill‘. First day, new ears. Yesterday morning I took in the Americans for Prosperity event over in Sterling, up the road from Dulles Airport. Dick Morris was the marquee speaker. If you have only time for one clip, Watch The Last One. In the background of these, raising a […]

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