McCain Calls for MoveOn.org to be “Thrown Out of the Country”

At a crowded rally at a VFW hall in Hudson, NH last night, McCain — again — used the MoveOn “Betray Us” ad as a emotional crowd-pleaser. It was a boisterous event, so when I thought I heard McCain call for MoveOn to be “thrown out” — and then be drowned out by applause, I [...]

Airport Blogging the Most Ingenious Campaign News Hook of the Day

Give the Richardson campaign credit for being the first out of the gate on this: Governor Bill Richardson Statement on New England Patriots Spying Incident Of course, this isn’t simply the outrage of America’s ONLY Red Sox and Yankees fan: SPENCER, IA– Democratic Presidential candidate Governor Bill Richardson, campaigning today in Iowa, issued the following [...]

Newt Talks About 2008

At a breakfast with about a dozen reporters this morning, the former Speaker, who earlier this week said it would take $30 million in pledges to get him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination, tamped down some of the speculation that had followed. Gingrich said: “The odds are very high that I [...]

More News from the McCain Bus

I was in the second class car when this call came in, but I can tell you that it was unplanned, unscreened, and unrehearsed — and taped live: the senator’s staff found out about it from reporters who were interviewing McCain when he took Stewart’s call. For what it’s worth, an informal vote among the [...]