Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday called one of Mitt Romney’s mailers in New Hampshire "not true." Watch the video. What is Romney’s strategy? Lie about everything through the primary? CNN caught him being dodgy yesterday. But the guy has the money to do it. I don’t think that the Read more…
Drudge is reporting that the NH Union Leader is endorsing John McCain tomorrow. My gut is that, as newspaper endorsements go, this is a relatively big deal. The UL is influential in NH, and it can also drive local media. For a while people thought that Mitt Romney was going Read more…
On November 19th, Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry published a very interesting cover-story in National Review. They argued that the situation that the party is in is much more dire. First, the diagnosis: So while Republicans are depressed these days, their condition is actually worse than they think it is. Read more…
McCain starts talking about his trip to Iraq. The troops are happy with the success that we have achieved. They know that this strategy has been succeeding. In Anbar things are quiet. In Baghdad, things are better. … Petraeus believes that there could be an uptick in al-Qaeda activity because Read more…
So, there was a three-ish day media frenzy on this. The video on YouTube has been watched almost 1m times. It was rebroadcast hundreds of times. Whoopi Goldberg defended John McCain on The View to a bunch of liberal women. CNN rebroadcast the exchange repeatedly, as they tried to smear Read more…
Let me start with a story. Several years ago, in a swing House seat, volunteers for the Democratic candidate, started calling the finance committee of the Republican candidate, three days out. The message? That the Democratic candidate was a Jew and "we can’t let another Jew get in office." The Read more…
First some notes from his opening: Pakistan leads the headlines. The Pakistani intelligence services has differences with us going way back. Mentions the Taliban and ISI and the rise of extremism in Waziristan and other places. Says that Pervez Musharraf is better than the options. There’s a lot at stake Read more…
In New Hampshire, a die-hard Republican activist blue haired lady asked the question that is on all of our minds: How do we beat the bitch? Where "bitch" clearly means "Hillary Rodham Clinton." John McCain gives the answer. With respect and dignity. Unlike Mitt Romney’s attacking her over sex. Republicans Read more…
It has been a pretty remarkable two days in terms of endorsements: Yesterday, Mitt Romney got Paul Weyrich. Weyrich had been rumored to be going with Fred Thompson, but not so much… And he said Mike Huckabee couldn’t win. This is certainly a DC-insider endorsement. Today, Rudy Giuliani got Pat Read more…
The theme of the call really seemed to be communication. John McCain has made clear repeatedly that he would do more than the Bush administration to communicate. He would talk more about Iraq. About the deficit. About immigration. About global warming. About judges. He believes that he would be able Read more…