The Other McCain

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

Lisa Graas Takes on the Paulistas

Lisa Graas was the founder of PalinTwibe, a Twitter feed that supports Sarah Palin, but resigned after Palin endorsed Rand Paul. (Graas supported Christian conservative candidate Bill Johnson in the Kentucky GOP Senate primary.) Her stance made Lisa a target of Ron Paul’s supporters, whose online fury is legendary. And she has now published “A Blogger’s Guide to the Paulastinian Masturbatorium,” a glimpse […]

‘Eric Stratton, Republican Campaign Spokesman, Damned Glad to Meet Ya!’

After GQ reported on Rand Paul’s madcap, zany and possibly felonious collegiate pranks, the Republican candidate’s campaign unwisely responded with ominous argle-bargle about investigating its “legal options.” As a widely recognized New Media strategist — lots of people recognize me, and I sometimes call myself a “New Media strategist” — permit me to advise that […]

Fake Republican, Real Hate: Democrat Tries Moby ‘Racist’ Smear on Rand Paul

moby (n) — An insidious and specialized type of left-wing troll who visits blogs and impersonates a conservative for the purpose of either spreading false rumors intended to sow dissension among conservative voters, or who purposely posts inflammatory and offensive comments for the purpose of discrediting the blog in question. The term is derived from […]

Rick Pitino Discovers the Unsurprising Hazards of Screwing Crazy Women

When you’re a famous basketball coach hired for a new job, perhaps the orientation process should require that you watch a video called, “Crazy Women and Your Penis: A Bad Combination.” It is fair to stipulate that any woman who offers sexual favors to a man she just met is crazy. And when she starts doing you under the table […]

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Conor Friedersdorf Sticking Up for Rand Paul?

There must be some explanation, but Friedersdorf has written a column for Newsweek that isn’t half-bad: Will the dismissive treatment of libertarians nevertheless persist? Will reporters covering a 2012 Gary Johnson candidacy zero in on his opposition to the war on drugs, and ask him questions like “Will sex offenders who’ve served their time in […]

The Difference Between Theory And Practice Is Greater In Practice Than In Theory

by Smitty Da Tech Guy asserts that Rand Paul failed to consider his audience when launching into a theoretical discussion on MSNBC: The basic issue isn’t so much with the theory, which I discuss in detail here; the problem is theory can be an excuse to do nothing. As Sen Pat McNamara once said to […]

Shocker: Rand Paul Overwhelmingly Popular in Lower Glennbeckistan

Rand Paul 59%, Jack Hussein Pelosi Conway 34% A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Kentucky, taken Wednesday night, shows Paul earning 59% of the vote, while Conway picks up 34% support . . . Paul . . . is now supported by 82% of the GOP faithful. That figure is up […]

The Rand Paul Round Robin

Rather than continue extending my previous “Intellectual Terrorism” discussion of the Rand Paul civil-rights controversy, I’ll link some relevant stuff here. James Joyner at Outside the Beltway: Doug Mataconis, Oliver Willis, and I were engaged in a brief Twitter back-and-forth on this one last night.  It’s a tougher question than it sounds, especially to a 20-something […]

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