McCain: Let’s face it, there was some sort of anti-Mormon element to that...
Terrific. A little token of affection for South Carolinians from the guy they chose over Mitt Romney four years ago. “We haven’t had time to do a real analysis of the Romney race in South Carolina,...
View ArticleOpen thread: Sunday morning talking heads
48 hours. Last chance for Newt to try to undo the damage from Thursday’s debate by pushing the “true conservatives vs. establishment RINOs” message he should have been pushing all along. He’s slated...
View ArticleVideo: “Game Change,” the full-length trailer
Uh oh. Everything I said when I posted the teaser last month still holds. I’m not seeing Woody Harrelson as slick Beltway insider Steve Schmidt and I’m not seeing The One at all — literally. Wasn’t...
View ArticleMcCain: Don’t blame Romney for his losses yesterday; it was the low voter...
Spin. Yeah, that’s it. Voters in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota really want Romney as their nominee, which is why many of them had no motivation to go to the polls at all and those who did venture...
View ArticlePoll: Hey, Romney still leads in Arizona — by three
Fade? I keep thinking that while the commentariat buzzes about Santorum’s surge, the Romney Super PAC death star is quietly moving into position. They nuked Newt with nearly $14 million in mostly...
View ArticleNew SarahPAC video: “Game Change We Can Believe In”
Rebuttal. A nifty video snapshot of Palinmania circa September 2008, when McCain finally gave conservatives a reason to start caring about his candidacy. It’s all true — terrific convention speech,...
View ArticleMcCain: Hey, let’s bomb Syria
What could go wrong? After a week of Afghans rampaging over burned Korans, a series of Islamist landslides in Egypt’s elections, and now grave desecration at a war cemetery for Allied heroes in Libya,...
View ArticleSteve Schmidt: Putting Palin on the ticket taught me there are worse things...
“I think the notion of Sarah Palin being President of the United States is something that frightens me, frankly.” Via Mediaite, Exhibit A in why John Podhoretz’s review of “Game Change” is titled...
View ArticleOpen thread: Sunday morning talking heads
Yeah, him. Full plate this morning. If you want primary stuff, you’ve got Romney on Fox and Santorum on ABC and CNN in the last push before Illinois. If you want foreign policy, you’ve got McCain plus...
View ArticleCongressman to Obama: You’d better not be trading away our missile defense,...
“Exquisitely clear.” It remains to be seen how the media will cover the explosive revelation from ABC’s Jake Tapper that Barack Obama asked Russian president Dmitri Medvedev to get Vladimir Putin to...
View ArticleMcCain: I think Palin should be the VP nominee
The roguest. Yesterday, Sarah Palin emphasized in her interview with Matt Lauer that whoever becomes the GOP nominee should not play it safe in his selection of a vice presidential running mate. She...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Politics. “A year after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama’s team is launching another precision operation: a full-scale public relations offensive aimed at using the bin...
View ArticleOpen thread: The White House Correspondents’ Dinner
What could go wrong? In lieu of a Quotes of the Day, your obligatory open thread for political media’s favorite annual freak show. A partial guest list: George Clooney, Allen West, Steven Spielberg,...
View ArticleObama: You know, that John McCain was pretty reasonable compared to Romney
Of course. Via BuzzFeed, here’s O hitting the eternal Democratic talking point that Republicans who no longer pose a threat to them were pretty sensible in hindsight but the new guy who might just...
View ArticleMan who won landslide in 2008: An election is bound to be tight when you have...
Plus: From “solid B+” to incomplete. The obligatory pit stop on “The View” for America’s first female president. I think this dumb, insulting line is almost a verbal tic for him at this point. He used...
View ArticleFree speech moment: Standing with Stacy McCain, Patterico, Liberty Chick, and...
Blogburst. I know what it’s like to find out that you’ve been targeted for violence — real violence, as in being targeted for death by an extremist who has picked out his target based on nothing more...
View ArticleRomney advisor to Soledad O’Brien: Why is CNN so obsessed with the Birther...
“Supporters of the president, like CNN, keep wanting to talk about other issues.” My favorite part of Team O’s obsession with Trump and Birtherism is the Strange New Respect the left has for McCain...
View ArticlePoll: Obama losing 20% of black vote to Romney in North Carolina?
Trend? Via Business Insider, this is fine blog material on a slow news day but is anyone taking this result seriously? C’mon. Even PPP sheepishly notes that it “seems like an unrealistically low share...
View ArticleOpen thread: Sunday morning talking heads
Cameo. How happy do you think Romney is that, two days after he committed to making his first non-Fox Sunday morning appearance of the year, The One dropped a DREAM Act bombshell on him? Now, instead...
View ArticleTeam Obama: Romney beat us in June by $35 million
“We still got beat. Handily.” Normally, a $71 million month would look pretty good … but not when compared to the competition this time around. Looks like Team Obama is starting to understand how...
View ArticlePalin on Cheney’s VP comments: You’ve bought the media’s false narrative...
Antiestablishment. Via Mediaite, an obligatory rejoinder to Cheney’s dig at her over the weekend. The reference to “misfiring” is, I trust, no accident. The irony of this flap is that I’m not sure his...
View ArticleCheney walks back comments about Palin?
“It wasn’t aimed so much at Governor Palin as it was against the basic process that McCain used.” I wonder if he tweaked her initially because he thought he could win this media fight (in the interest...
View ArticleRomney campaign: $7.4 million raised online since Ryan was named VP
Windfall. Enthusiasm, to the tune of $100,000+ per hour: In 72 hours, @mittromney & @paulryanvp raised $7.4 million online with over 101,000 donations — Andrea Saul (@andreamsaul) August 14, 2012...
View ArticleObama lies for Biden: Oh, hey, he didn’t mean anything by that really obvious...
Lies. Consider this progress. Four years ago, it was The One himself smearing McCain from the stump by warning that his opponents would try to make an issue out of the fact that he doesn’t look like...
View ArticleMcCain slams Obama on leaks, defense cuts, leading from behind
Country First. The atmosphere was decidedly more low-key than the packed RNC opening night when the party’s 2008 nominee took the stage early Wednesday to take on the President’s foreign policy....
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