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Tom Ridge on McCain's Veep short list?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 26, 2008 · Comments (3)

Michael Goldfarb of The Blog of The Weekly Standard is hearing it (full post at the preceding link). I have serious doubts about this. While Ridge was a popular Governor of a key "light blue" state in recent elections, he left office in 2001 - and Pennsylvania elections have been... [Full Story]

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Was Fred in it for the Veep job?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 23, 2008 · Comments (3)

After Fred Thompson withdrew from the Republican Presidential nomination race, an interesting post appeared at Cameron's Corner of Fox News: Back in March of 07 at the CPAC convention in DC several former Fred Thompson Congressional staffers told me Fred Thompson was thinking about a run. Some of his Tennessee... [Full Story]

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McCain wins endorsement from top SC newspaper

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 13, 2008 · Comments (2)

South Carolina's largest-circulation newspaper, The State (based in Columbia), has endorsed John McCain in the upcoming Republican Primary. From their Editorial Board: Clearly, the best Republican candidate to lead our nation at this time is U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona. He has the necessary experience, not just in time... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Rick Santorum on John McCain

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 13, 2008 · Comments (5)

Popular blogger and radio talk host Hugh Hewitt wrote a book about Mitt Romney before the current campaign began in earnest, A Mormon in the White House, which was a very favorable portrait of the former Massachusetts Governor. Since the book came out early last year, Hewitt has become almost... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.4/5 (5 votes cast)

Hillary tells Katie about Edwards and Obama's "buddy system"

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 10, 2008

Still flush from her once-assumed, then denied, then resumed victory in the New Hampshire Primary, Hillary Clinton spoke with Katie Couric, who used to be a popular morning talk show host but is now doing Nutri-System® commercials or something, I think. Via CBSNews.com: COURIC: Some observers believe that moment when... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Romney spreading rumors?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 6, 2008 · Comments (5)

The rumors that Fred Thompson was about to withdraw and endorse McCain were spread by Romney people, according to Robert Novak: Published reports that Fred Thompson soon will withdraw from the Republican presidential contest and endorse Sen. John McCain have been traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign, trying to... [Full Story]

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Huckabee scores on Leno

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 3, 2008 · Comments (1)

On the eve of the Iowa Caucuses, Mike Huckabee decided to leave the state to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, taped in Burbank, California. The political press questioned this move in derisive chorus, finishing their transition from favorable to Huckabee to outrightly hostile in near-record time. Huckabee... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Novak predicts: Obama, Romney win Iowa; Hillary 3rd

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: January 2, 2008 · Comments (2)

Robert Novak and Timothy P. Carney are issuing predictions for the Iowa Caucuses at Human Events. Read the whole column at the preceding link; to summarize: they predict Obama wins the Democratic side, followed by Edwards and Clinton. For the Republicans, they call Romney over Huckabee, with Thompson and McCain... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Idiot Kucinich backers mad about pizza ad

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 29, 2007 · Comments (2)

If you ever needed confirmation that supporters of moonbat moron Dennis Kucinich are as dumb as rocks, here it is: they are now pitching fits over this pizza commercial: Sabrina Eaton posts at The Plain Dealer blog: When the vegan congressman disappears from the screen, his image is replaced by... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (4 votes cast)

McCain blogger call

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 20, 2007

John McCain held another in his regular series of conference calls with bloggers yesterday. Among the participants were Erick Erickson of RedState, James Joyner of Outside the Beltway, Philip Klein of The American Spectator, Michael Goldfarb of The Weekly Standard, myself, and several others whose names I missed. McCain opened... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

A skeptic's view of the Boston Globe Obama endorsement

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 18, 2007 · Comments (2)

As we reported previously, the Boston Globe endorsed John McCain for the Republicans and Barack Obama for the Democrats recently. Michael Graham looks at the Obama choice at The Natural Truth: First, let's get this obvious truth out of the way: Barack FREAKIN' Obama? Are you out of your tiny... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

McCain scores newspaper endorsements in Iowa, Boston

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 16, 2007

Following news he has moved into contention in polls for Michigan's January 15th primary, Senator John McCain gets a boost - from two Democratic newspapers. He was endorsed by The Des Moines Register in Iowa: Time after time, McCain has stuck to his beliefs in the face of opposition from... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

McCain wins key New Hampshire newspaper endorsement

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: December 5, 2007

On Sunday, the Manchester Union-Leader, the leading conservative newspaper in New Hampshire, endorsed John McCain for President. Their editorial is here. The paper has been a frequent critic of McCain in recent years, for the same reasons he has trouble with conservatives generally: campaign finance reform, the "Gang of 14,"... [Full Story]

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Hillary leads reporters on a merry chase

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: November 30, 2007

Modern Presidential candidates (at least, those with enough of a chance to make reporters want to question them) rarely give unfettered access to the media, John McCain being the closest to an exception which proves the rule. Candidates want to manage their message, and reporters are notoriously uncooperative in that... [Full Story]

Rating: 3/5 (2 votes cast)

Rudy tells Katie Couric security "scandal" a phony charge

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: November 30, 2007 · Comments (2)

After the "scandal" about Rudy Giuliani's security costs being "buried" among several city agencies while he was Mayor broke just before the Republican debate, he sat down with CBS' Katie Couric to rebut the charges: Katie Couric: We were talking earlier, Mayor Giuliani, about the scrutiny that you have to... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

Johnny, we hardly knew ye . . .

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: October 11, 2007 · Comments (20)

A guy walks into a bar. He meets a woman. They talk, perhaps share a laugh. Then, nature takes its course . . . and she produces a series of short web videos for him, which he bills to his nascent Presidential campaign, to the tune of $114,000.00. Man decides... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

The "creation" of a frontrunner

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 26, 2007 · Comments (7)

The actual campaign, once the spending begins in earnest, may easily overcome media and blog speculation about Hillary's "inevitability." Responding to the "wait a minute" columns by Dan Balz and Adam Nagourney, Jay Cost analyzes for Real Clear Politics: So, voters are not thinking about politics much right now. Out... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Edwards: real or phony?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 19, 2007 · Comments (8)

Only a leftist moron would have to ask, of course, so the Associated Press Ron Fournier fills the bill: Some who call Edwards a hypocrite assume that a multimillionaire trial lawyer can't be an authentic advocate for the poor and working people. That's nonsense. You don't need to be blind... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

Rudy's web ad answering Hillary Clinton

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 16, 2007 · Comments (2)

The Giuliani ad attacking Hillary on Petraeus: ... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

McCain's blog conference call

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: September 13, 2007

I participated in the bloggers' conference call with Senator John McCain late yesterday afternoon, but haven't had a chance to transcribe my notes on the questions. Good thing for you, because I noticed that Betsy Newmark already did a better job than I would have. (The blogger she missed at... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (1 votes cast)

McCain blogger conference call

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: August 20, 2007 · Comments (1)

McCain held a blogger conference call today, just before delivering remarks at the VFW National Convention in Kansas City. Below follows what I could decipher of my notes - please note I am paraphrasing all: McCain: Of course I will tell them I am proud to be in their company,... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

MSNBC newsroom booed Bush

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: August 16, 2007

But there is no such thing as "media bias," is there? Mark Finkelstein reports for Newsbusters: Joe Scarborough has pulled back the curtain on the liberal bias at MSNBC, describing an incident in which people in its newsroom ceaselessly booed President Bush during a State of the Union address. The... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (6 votes cast)

Blogger conference call with John McCain

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: July 13, 2007 · Comments (1)

I participated in a conference call with Senator John McCain this afternoon, a loose transcription of which follows below. I am working from notes, so everything is paraphrased, and if I missed anything important or mess up any question or answer, I apologize in advance. Unfortunately, the names were only... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

Reporters, editors support Democrats and leftists with cash

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: June 22, 2007 · Comments (3)

Over 90% of political contributions from media reporters, analysts, and editors have gone to Democrats and liberal advocacy groups since 2004, an MSNBC investigation found: Whether you sample your news feed from ABC or CBS (or, yes, even NBC and MSNBC), whether you prefer Fox News Channel or National Public... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

CNN poll: Rudy lead over McCain down to 2%

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: May 8, 2007

The latest CNN Opinion Research Corporation telephone poll of Republicans and Republican-leading independents show Giuliani with a slim lead over McCain, within the margin of error of 5%, as reported by CNN: Full Results Giuliani 25% McCain 23% F. Thompson 13% Romney 10% Gingrich 9% No opinion 8% Read the... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (3 votes cast)

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