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Being an unreliable conservative is not an accusation Romney should be making about others.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 18 Comments

Mitt Romney was on Fox News Sunday this morning, and his interview went well overall. But Romney is doubling down on his claims that Newt is an unreliable conservative because of Newt's comments last spring about the Ryan Plan and "right wing social engineering," and his couch...

“Savagely lashing news goalie”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 48 Comments

I guess I'm upsetting some people with my vigorous posts regarding Newt. Robert Stacy McCain says I've "hopped aboard the Gingrich bandwagon and [am] savagely lashing Newt’s critics." Actually, the bandwagon jumped on me, because my endorsement predated Newt's surge, if only by a few days. John Sexton...

Bachmann SC Tea Party supporters walk back her “money is changing hands” accusation

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 9 Comments

This is the video of Michele Bachmann accusing Tea Party members, not just in South Carolina but "all across the country," of taking money from Gingrich for endorsements, which I referenced in my post Friday: The Bachmann SC Tea Party Coalition Leaders has issued a statement...

“I Hope …

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 18, 2011 7 Comments

... Glenn Beck regains his sanity." That was the subject line in the e-mail from Linda attaching this photo taken outside the Sportsman's Grill in Franklin, TN: ...

Saturday Night Card Game (Ann Coulter plays birther card on Tea Party for not supporting Romney)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 57 Comments

"Bombastic" is Ann Coulter's favorite new word in attacking Newt Gingrich. (irony noted) Coulter was on O'Reilly last night lambasting Newt as "bombastic" with no policy accomplishments. Mark Levin, no supporter of Newt, has come to his defense, much as Andrew McCarthy dissented from National Review's hit...

Flyer Found at Penn State U. Says ‘Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill’

Franklin & Marshall College Economic Department Features Marxist Curriculum

Students for Justice in Palestine at U. Chicago Cheer for Iranian Missiles Hitting U.S. Navy Base

Dearborn Henry Ford Community College Prof Says Trump Made a Huge 'Mistake' in Iran

Yale to Offer Free Tuition to Families Making Less Than $200K

U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign Students Want School to Spend $25K on Reparations Commission

Another Obama Counter-Indicator

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 9 Comments

The more Obama pushes class warfare, the more people reject class warfare. That's certainly not what I expected. It's the counter-indicator effect. If he's for it, the opposite will happen. Perhaps he should announce an Unemployment Plan instead of a Jobs Plan. It's another one of those...

Bibi sends Christmas Greetings

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 29 Comments

Take one Bibi a Day and you will feel better. The Prime Minister of the Jewish State doesn't seem to feel the need to stick to Happy Generic Holiday which happens to arrive in late December every year and is not the one invented in the 1960s. It's a...

Occupy “movement” Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 2 Comments

I didn't see this in the Time Person of the Year story, but then again, I didn't read it. From John Hawkins: ...

One brave soul at National Review stands up for Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 47 Comments

As I pointed out the other day, National Review demeaned itself and its many talented writers by going overboard in its attempt to demonize Newt Gingrich, including a cover which should live in conservative infamy. Newt as crazy outer-space martian is what passes for analysis at...

Saturday in the snow

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 17 Comments

The first snowfall in Ithaca so far this year. Gingrich poses an asymmetrical threat to Obama. Isn't that how you fight an opponent which is better funded and better organized? All those commentators at The Washington Examiner who hate Newt because he was a "lobbyist" in reality if...

My political destiny

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 15 Comments

I'm just getting this feeling: A life of perpetual opposition....

Close enough

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 17, 2011 2 Comments

I'm not going to argue with the owner of this car. But I think the quote is: "I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away." -- Thomas Jefferson to Uriah Forrest, 1787. Papers, 12:477. I could be wrong. Did Jefferson use...

Bachmann spreading rumors of Gingrich Tea Party payoffs in South Carolina

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 42 Comments

You know I have a big problem with Michele Bachmann making statements which are not supported by facts and then repeating them endlessly. Her campaign is up to much worse in South Carolina, where her local campaign manager has suggested that the Gingrich campaign has paid...

Government not shutting down so blog continues

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 21 Comments

The government is not shutting down at midnight. So here's some more stuff: Incandescent light bulb ban not banned, but not really going into effect. Rich Lowry, Applying while Asian. Commenter LukeHandCool made a similar point on the Tip Line earlier this month. Newt has hired one of...

Time Magazine ‘Person of the Year’ Tweet of the Day

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 9 Comments

Time Magazine named "The Protester" as Person of the Year, which in the United States was represented by the Occupy Wall Street movement. Which generated this Tweet of the Day: ...

Bachmann clearing the brush for Romney

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 25 Comments

Michele Bachmann pretty much ended Tim Pawlenty's campaign. Bachman attacked Pawlenty relentlessly and took the Iowa straw poll, causing Pawlenty (foolishly, in hindsight) to withdraw. In so doing, Bachmann eliminated the person who was the most viable not-Romney establishment candidate, a former Governor with a good, conservative record...

Why I hate the media, Part 32850

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 18 Comments

How disgusting and politically corrupt is the Washington Post? This disgusting and politically corrupt (h/t Ed Morrissey). WaPo runs this headline, FBI considered a sting aimed at Newt Gingrich in 1997, accompanied by an ominous super-close up of Gingrich: Sounds pretty bad. Even if not charged, Newt must...