Entries Tagged as '2008 Republican Race'

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Finally: McCain Undergoes the Same Scrutiny as Everyone Else

Whatever the truth is about the details of John McCain’s relationship with ”that” lobbyist, it looks like finally the media’s favorite candidate is going to get scrutinized the same way any other candidate would.
There has been some too easy dismissal of the more salacious charges. Chris Matthews, for example, had an interview with a McCain campaign […]

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Some Thoughts On This Whole McCain Thing

First off, I’m going to disappoint many of you (I’m looking at you, Mom) when I say that I don’t believe that John McCain had a sexual relationship with this lobbyist that they are talking about. For one thing, I think Cindy would fry up his testicles with the morning eggs and serve them to him […]

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Audience Participation Portion of the Show

I’m just a little curious about the answer to this from all y’all. How many of you have actually met any of the candidates who are running (or were running) for president this year?
I’ve met four of them:
John Edwards: He’s made numerous visits to Tucson. I only actually met him during one of them though. […]

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Free Equal Time, Right?


Thursday, February 7th, 2008

He Did Say Straight Talk, Didn’t Mention Anything About Voting

I’ve heard more than one pundit mention that this presidential election will be unique because the likely nominees for both major parties come from the United States Senate. This means that not only will votes be scrutinized during the race, but that there will be pressure on the candidates to advance their programs during the […]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

What the $%#& Is Up With the Pima County Results? (Part II)

This morning, the Star ran a piece about the troubles on election day. Yesterday afternoon, one Pima County official reported to me that as of that time, there were somewhere around 13,000 provisional ballots still to be counted. On election day, it was reported that this was due to the large number of independents who […]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Razing McCain

Today will be what might be the final quixotic tilt in Rob Haney’s quest to take down Captain John Sidney McCain III. The conservative campaign against the McCain has been revealing. For example, there is this unhinged quote posted by Andrew Sullivan where a conservative writer actually counts McCain’s position against waterboarding as violating core Republican principles. […]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Golly Gee, the Citizen Has an Opinion

So, the Tucson Citizen ran an “editorial” about today’s primary election. Under the headline “Our Opinion:” Arizonans get to vote in a primary today, and some presidential candidates have dropped out of the race. Really?
If these are now “opinions” rather than facts, I guess journalistic standards are slipping.
The closest thing to an actual opinion expressed […]

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Nintzel Hits the Big Time?

I dialed my intertron to Salon, and up pops an article by the Old Pueblo’s own Jim Nintzel. Whatever ego boost this gives Nintzel, it likely pales in comparison to Rob Haney’s feeling of accomplishment getting his tiresome (even for me) John McCain hate into a national publication. Say, Haney, whatever happened to that Duncan Hunter that […]

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

An Early Post-Mortem for the Giuliani Campaign

Any of you ever see the War Room? At the end, James Carville is looking at Ross Perot’s “concession” (if it can even be called that) and exclaims, “This was the single greatest act of masturbation in history!”

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