Crist Is Toast: ‘Goodbye, Charlie’
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The American Spectator’s Florida-based correspondent Larry Thornberry:
TAMPA – “Moderate” Florida governor Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign is circling the drain. And it’s mostly his own fault.
Crist, a formerly conservative politician who “grew in office” after becoming governor in 2007, went through a 50-point lead over conservative former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio faster than Sherman went...
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Tea Party Weekend: Daytona Bike Week Freedom Rally Is Ready to Rock!
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Chelsea Schilling at WorldNetDaily:
One year ago this week, tens of thousands of patriots held “tea parties” in 40 cities in protest of government expansion, bailouts and the stimulus package, launching a nationwide movement – and now those citizens are regrouping and heading back to the streets to “recharge the movement” Saturday.
Feb. 27 marks the one-year...
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Why Did CPAC Snub Mark Levin?
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There’s been a good deal of blog reaction to Mark Levin’s criticism yesterday of Glenn Beck. My friend Andrea Shea King accused Levin of being motivated by “envy,” and in support of that thesis quoted my own ruminations about this year’s CPAC lineup.
This puts me in a very awkward position, because I would very much want to be Levin’s friend (no...
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Politics and Mardi Gras Beads in ‘Bama: Rick Barber Campaigns in Millbrook
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Bailey Barber greeted us at the front door of her family home Saturday morning with ecstatic news. “We’re going to a parade,” announced the 6-year-old daughter of Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber.
Retail politics requires a relentless press-the-flesh effort on the part of the candidate, and Barber hit the streets Saturday. After attending...
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The Right Hand Doesn’t Know . . .
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. . . what the far-right hand is doing:
In November, the morning after Election Day, a conservative blogger in Georgia blasted an e-mail to 65,000 people.
Erick Erickson’s 5 a.m. “Morning Briefing” seemed counterintuitive — the election of a Democrat to a U.S. House seat in Upstate New York held by Republicans for more than a...
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Massachusetts Aftermath: ‘We the People’ and the Brown Revolution
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that Republican Scott Brown edged Martha Coakley among union rank-and-file in Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election. Why? I argue that it’s because liberals have ignored the pro-freedom message of the Tea Party movement:
But it’s not just Massachusetts, it’s everywhere nowadays. People are tired of the “insider consensus.” They’re tired of...
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VIDEO: Interview With Scott Brown’s ‘American Idol’ Daughter Ayla
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We’re live from Blogger’s Row here at Scott Brown campaign HQ tonight and — hey — who’s got the eye for talent?
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Obama’s Anti-Terrorism Strategy: BLAME BUSH!
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In the aftermath of the Flight 253 bomb attempt, the White House spent time and money on a political blame game:
[A]s it became clear internally that the Administration had suffered perhaps its most embarrassing failure in the area of national security, senior Obama White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and...
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My latest American Spectator column:
When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate an explosive aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, liberals were quick to warn against the clear and present danger.
It wasn’t the threat of al Qaeda-trained bombers blowing up Detroit-bound planes that concerned them. Rather, liberals feared that Americans might blame the Obama...
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The Celebrity Who Makes Tigers Woods Seem Like a Paragon of Moral Virtue
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Yes, we’re talking about Charlie Sheen, who got arrested on Christmas morning in Aspen after police say he got into a fight with his wife, who reportedly blew a .13 on her Breathalyzer test. Heck of a way for the mother of infant twins to celebrate the holidays, huh? But remember that this is a woman who had the...
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National Review: What Do We Need Now? More Purges!
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The John Birch Society announces it has paid for a booth at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference, a Pajamas Media columnist has a conniption, National Review’s Jonah Goldberg accuses CPAC of a “big mistake,” and even NRO contributor Mark Krikorian jumps on the dogpile.
Understand this: CPAC has scores of sponsoring organizations, who pay money to rent exhibition space,...
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That “black-hearted varmint” is the subject of my latest column for The American Spectator:
Conceited and coolly cynical, he has “the most terrible reputation,” so breathtakingly scandalous that he isn’t received by “any decent family in Charleston.” Yet 70 years since his silver screen debut, Rhett Butler’s roguish charms are still irresistible.
Rhett will once again swagger into ladies’ hearts...
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The Left vs. Lieberman: ‘By Any Means Necessary’
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Not content to smear Sen. Joe Lieberman for his opposition to ObamaCare, now the Left is attacking Lieberman’s wife, Hadassah. Both Jane Hamsher and DailyKos are trying to get Mrs. Lieberman purged from her job at a breast cancer charity.
Those who remember the way the “progressive netroots community” assailed Joe Lieberman in 2006 will understand...
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Erick Erickson urges Senate Republicans to fight ObamaCare with every parliamentary means available:
Some might argue that Republicans should not look “obstructionist.” But they are wrong — the vast majority of Americans don’t like this bill and don’t want it to pass. The Tea Party movement was the upheaval of millions of ordinary Americans who are...
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Let’s face it, he’s boring — which my latest column at The American Spectator is certainly not:
At some point, reasonable people might expect an end to these épater les bourgeoisie gestures, as the bourgeoisie have long since ceased to be shocked by such routine public exhibitions. . . .
More than four decades have gone by...
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Global Warming: Faith, Reason and the Temple Cult of Scientism
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Devastating revelations about the bogus science of the climate-change fanatics inspired me Saturday to reflect on the Temple Cult of Scientism:
The High Priests perform their statistical rituals and the cultists genuflect reverently before their idol, Science.
Today’s latest news — that the original data which generated the global-warming thesis were long ago destroyed — prompted further...
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Where to begin? Jules Crittenden observes that since resuming “normal” blogging, Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish “has racked up no fewer than 23 Palin posts.” Which is only “normal” in Sullyland, a destination on the far side of the looking glass, where caterpillars smoke hookahs, etc.
Certain that his lunacy is entirely rational, Andrew Sullivan declares Sarah...
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Andrew Sullivan Gazes Into . . . uh, the
Abyss
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He has become so wildly erratic that it’s hard to predict what he’ll do next, but Sully now seems to be telegraphing his intent to do something even more monumentally embarrassing than his unrequited twink-lust for Levi Johnston. (Yes, those are live links to Sullivan’s blog; click at your peril, or don’t.) Though not a Sarah...
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Today’s Andrew Sullivan Obvious
Lack of Self-Awareness Update
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Having been on the road a lot lately, I’ve had little time to keep track of the psycho-dramatic peregrinations of Andrew Sullivan. One of the most hysterically laughable aspects of Sully’s recent blogging is how he engages in psychological projection, accusing others of his own most obvious faults, to wit:
I’ve heard it before from a...
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Why Is Sarah Palin Dissing Conservative Media?
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Associated Press was provided with an advance copy of Sarah Palin’s new book, Going Rogue, so they get the scoop on its contents.
I attempted to get an advance copy of Palin’s book. No dice. Embargoed. “Under lock and key,” I was told.
So the American Spectator doesn’t get the scoop. Neither does National Review, nor the...
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Baldilocks Goes With God, So Exactly Where Is LGF’s Mad King Charles Going?
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Longtime conservative blogger Baldilocks, a former Pajamas Media staffer, was banished Sunday from Little Green Footballs, where Charles Johnson’s insane jihad against his erstwhile friends and allies has become one of the most embarrassing spectacles in the history of the blogosphere. “He’s like a troll with his own website,” as one commenter at Ace of Spades HQ said.
This latest and...
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LGF’s Mad King Charles: Scenes From the ‘Little Green Meltdown’
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RWN chief John Hawkins wrote Thursday about the frightening descent of Little Green Footballs, a once-famous conservative blog that over the past two years has turned decidely anti-conservative. Hawkins and I spoke by phone about this Saturday, because I’m one of the conservatives who have been attacked recently by LGF’s Charles Johnson.
So far as I can discover,...
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