Watch Tom Palmer go for Lew Rockwell. This is either the dorkiest or the coolest thing I’ve posted in a long while. That’s always with the question with libertarians, isn’t it?
Category: The Dish
Romney’s Lost Press
Matt Yglesias feels Hewitt’s pain:
This morning, Mitt Romney had more delegates than John McCain. Following today’s primaries, Romney’s lead has grown even larger because Nevada has more delegates than South Carolina and Romney won a larger proportion of the vote in NV than McCain got in South Carolina. Naturally, the press is declaring this a big win for McCain. I just saw Howard Fineman explain that "there is no longer any strong candidate in the race" to oppose McCain. Nobody but the guy who’s leading, that is.
Hewitt, meanwhile, in classic Stalinist fashion, refuses to acknowledge that Ron Paul actually exists.
What’s A Conservative To Do?
Protein Wisdom’s resident red-blooded Red Stater takes stock after South Carolina:
What to do? Well, my first thought is to buy some remote land in Idaho and try to hole up for the next decade or so, learning to sustain myself with nothing but a Bowie knife and some animal pelts. And maybe Dish Network and a HD DVR receiver.
But why bother?
Why indeed. Yeah, they really do hate McCain that much.
It’s A Post-Gay World
A straight football fan sings a song about his man-crush on Tom Brady. Yeah, if Brady were gay …
Polling Young Evangelicals
Well it’s an online poll, so all the usual caveats. But it’s from a youth-oriented evangelical magazine, so it probably means something. The younger fundies are much more economically liberal than their elders, and much less hung up on sexual issues.
Deja Bill
The continuous lies of the former president on gay rights.
Quote For The Day
McCain’s is a genuine national candidacy. Rudy’s campaign announced itself as one, but, as I said a while back, it quickly turned into a 1-800 candidacy, rooted in no real area code, with no real physical presence, as if he’d outsourced the thing to a call center in Bombay.
Understanding Tom Cruise
A scientology glossary.
The Parties Stagger On
I’m really chuffed about McCain. But his squeaker in South Carolina makes it both more likely that he will be the nominee and less likely that he will unite the GOP enthusiastically behind him. He may have to put Huckabee on the ticket at this rate, which will make him uncomfortable and the economic right apoplectic. A very narrow and divisive McCain victory wouldn’t be as bad for the GOP as a narrow and divisive Romney victory, but it’s not great news either.
Similarly, the longer the Democratic race goes on, the likelier it appears that Clinton could well win the nomination in a way almost designed to maximally divide and demoralize her own party – and raise her own national negatives to stratospheric levels. It would mean a Clinton candidacy in the fall that had actively alienated independents and repelled Republicans, while undermining a key source of Democratic support – African-Americans.
If both parties commit slow suicide, does either win in the end?
(Photo: Stephen Morton/Getty.)
The Base Deals With McCain
They’re not happy, if Levin is any indicator:
The problem for McCain is his record (which some of his supporters want us to downplay, or to limit to certain issues most important to them, or claim what matters is that he can beat the Democrat, or whatever). That’s not going to work right now. Even if this website were to close down tonight and never reappear, McCain’s positions on some major issues simply won’t go down with a lot of conservatives.
