Kind of makes me want to smack the vehicle owner upside the head and scream, “snap out of it.”

From Linda in Tennessee, taken at the Whole Foods parking lot in Nashville:

This video (via Leslie of Temple of Mut) of Rick Santorum has made the rounds as evidence that Santorum is hostile to the Tea Party movement.

The key sentence, in which he expresses and intention to “vocally, publicly oppose” the Tea Party, is ambiguous.  Was he saying he would oppose the Tea Parties, or...

It’s so frustrating, the failure of conservative media and Republican campaigns to vet Mitt Romney’s Bain days.

Instead of hiring cartoonists to turn Newt into Marvin the Martian, National Review should have been digging deep into the public filings, court filings, and the financial history of the companies Bain acquired and sold. ...

Of course I’ll be covering it, probably one of my “updates at the breaks” type of coverage, not a Live Event.  It starts at 9 p.m.

Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos “moderated” the Drake Debate in December.   My prior posts: Drake Deb...

This is an update to yesterday’s post.  Eugene Robinson kinda, sorta, apologized, but not exactly (h/t @jtLOL):

Via The Hill:

Restore Our Future, a super PAC backing Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, will run full-page ads attacking Newt Gingrich in the Manchester Union Leader and The State in Columbia, South Carolina, the most prominent newspapers in the next two states to vote….

The decision to attack Gingrich is a curious one...

There is a new jobs report out, with the usual caveats that the work force is shrinking, but the nominal unemployment rate is down to 8.5%.  That’s the number which counts politically.

The rate would be 10.9% if the same number of people were in the workforce as when Obama took office

The...

I’m still trying to wrap my mind around that phrase used in the email from reader NCMont to explain his move from D.C. to Austin.  I guess it’s like when I make the trip from Rhode Island to Ithaca when school is in session.  Or is it the other way around?

Basically, NCMont and I are ….

Professor, I’ve been reading your blog for about a year – big fan, one of the few blogs I check daily. I’m a young conservative who grew up in one of the most liberal places in the country (DC) and now lives in another city with less intelligent, but angrier liberals (Austin, TX).

I’m back in DC for the holidays and saw this car on the way home from a book store. (The light turned green right as I snapped the photo but, don’t worry, we were stopped). It would probably only take me 15 minutes in either city to find enough bumper stickers to fill your sight for the rest of 2012. My user name on your site is NCMont.

Oh, and the red sticker next to the Obama one reads, “Peaceaholic” – whatever that is.

You would think that Wisconsin state officials charged with ensuring the intergrity of elections, including the recall against Gov. Scott Walker, would want to check for duplicate, fictitious and fraudulent signatures on recall petitions.

But no.  As I reported in November, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board decided that it would not check signatures. ...

Things that deserve separate posts, but won’t get it, for now:

• He’s still trying to out liberal a real liberal, and it will not work:  Scott Brown Says He Supports Obama’s Illegal “Recess” Appointment of Richard Cordray… and  Scott Brown Accuses Gingrich Of ‘Pandering To The Right-Wing Extreme’.  He has forgotten who...

I posted the other day about Alan Colmes mocking — and then apologizing for mocking — the manner in which Rick Santorum and his family mourned their child who died shortly after birth.

Now Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post and MSNBC has done the same (via Commentary, h/t @CharlieSykes):

First it was ...

Having called the Tea Party birthers and Newt Ahmadinejad, Ann Coulter has identified another way of demonizing and belittling someone who is not Mitt Romney:

As a two-time senator from a light-blue state, Rick Santorum is not as obviously unelectable as the rest. But don’t leap too fast, Republicans. Remember how Rick Perry broke...

Two men break into a home in Oklahoma. A widowed young mother and her infant are alone in the house. The mother calls 911 to ask if it is okay to shoot the intruders:

“I’ve got two guns in my hand — is it okay to shoot him if he comes in...

Remember when one Republican candidate viciously attacking the leading Republican candidate was patriotic?

Like in Iowa, when everyone from Charles Krauthammer on down blamed Newt’s past for the several millions dollars in negative attack ads run by a pro-Romney SuperPAC?  When National Review devoted almost an

No one could have seen this coming.

Romney Tax Returns Become a Problem

Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire who is by far the wealthiest of the Republican presidential candidates, said he has no plans to release his income tax returns if he wins his party’s nomination, setting himself apart from past nominees in both...