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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,...
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Open 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...
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Video: “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...
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McCain: 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...
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Poll: 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...
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New 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,...
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McCain: 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,...
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Steve 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...
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Open 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...
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Congressman 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...
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McCain: 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...
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Quotes 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...
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Open 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,...
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Obama: 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...
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Man 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...
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Free 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...
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Romney 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...
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Poll: 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...
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Open 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...
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Team 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...
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