Rum, Romanism and Rebellion

Slowly (too slowly, but what can you do?) some national news outlets are starting to take a look at John McCain’s backroom deals. Check out this piece run in the New York Times this morning about McCain’s relationship with local land razer Don Diamond. Thankfully, they did not allege an affair in this case.
Our boy Ray Carroll […]

Wow, John McCain has this innovative proposal for a “gas tax holiday.” Yeah, he understands economics (and, as the son of an admiral and husband of an heiress, he certainly understands the plight of the working man more than that Barack Obama).
John, you let those lefty yahoos go on about how the gas tax represents […]

What, an anouncement on Friday? Naw…Monday? Hey, it’s Tuesday…
The new word on the street (because, as Howard Devoto said, I am the street where you live) is that Ken Bennett will not run for congress. Heck, he already was a senator and a president, why would he want to settle for representative now?
The talk is […]

Well, I guess I can’t complain about John McCain having lobbyists work his campaign anymore since Charlie Black is taking a leave of absence from his firm to work full time on the campaign. I guess that means that Black will no longer be making lobbying calls from the Straight Talk Express. Carping lefties like […]

The other day, I wrote a post where I said that despite John McCain’s personal popularity, local Republicans still seem to be in trouble. At least one poster questioned my sanity when I said that Bob Lord seems to have a chance against John Shadegg, despite the overwhelming Republican registration in the district. He even accused […]

I’m hearing various theories about John McCain’s coattails here in Arizona. I’m not buying that he’ll have much of them. Even Barry Goldwater’s candidacy didn’t produce much in the way of coattails here (even though it did in the South). His friend Richard Kleindienst lost to Democrat Sam Goddard for Governor at the same time […]

I caught a snippet from John McCain’s speech to the Center for National Policy, a socially conservative think tank. He is still trying to reassure social conservatives that he is one of them. One of the things he brought up was that he led an effort to amend the Arizona Constitution to ban gay marriage.
If […]

Back in 1997, I happened to be doing an off-site project for the company I was working for. This meant I spent the summer in Phoenix, where I learned that summers can, in fact, be worse than they are in Tucson.
So I was up there the day that J. Fife Symington III was convicted of […]

Given the title of this blog, I would be remiss to comment on John McCain and his newest supporter, the Reverend John Hagee.
Folks all over the Blogoverse have been asking the question, where are the Tim Russerts of the world asking if McCain agrees with Hagee’s more extreme views? Is he going to be asked […]

From John McCain’s website:

Gosh, John McCain was so darned apologetic, wasn’t he? What the heck were his people thinking inviting this guy in the first place? It isn’t as though he hasn’t said this stuff before.
So, is this going to be the pattern for Mr. Straight Talk? Let his surrogates spew hate speech for the knuckle-dragging-mouth-breather crowd and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tom Delay, way back like, three or four weeks ago:

Now, Delay is campaigning for John McCain, speaking to anti-McCain bitter ender Rob Haney and his Republican district club.
In addition to that fun, one wonders why McCain, who was the guy who is famously the maverick for standing up against the fundraising tactics and big spending […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

I returned from Mass yesterday morning, turned on the teevee and there was Jon Kyl being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer.
Wow, that killed any sort of closeness to God right there.
Kyl engaged in a bit of rhetorical silliness that I still haven’t figured out: he refused to give his opinion on whether waterboarding is torture or […]

Even as a frequent critic of John McCain, I thought he was pretty clever with his “I was tied up…” jibe when going after Hillary Clinton for funding the Bethel Arts Center, which has been derided as the “hippie museum.”
Of course, “hippie museum” is pretty far from what it actually is.
The only thing that is […]