Road Trip
Traveling with any presidential campaign is exhausting. But it may be most exhausting to hit the road as a buddy of John McCain, because, along with forgoing sleep, you become a chief victim of McCain's unrelenting and often peculiar avidities. Giant pigs, for one. READ MORE >>
Recruiting Scandal
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Recruiting Scandal
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Mad Skills
The Groveler
Has ever a politician gone so cheerfully into defeat as Mitt Romney? Remember Romney around the time of the Michigan and Florida GOP primaries: As he derided John McCain's economic policies as defeatist and lashed out at the senator for dishonestly distorting his rhetoric on Iraq, Romney appeared to be a man barely in control of an immense, quivering, anti-McCain outrage. (McCain repaid him by comparing him to a pig.) READ MORE >>
Ted Kennedy Picks A Successor
According to the Daily News, Ted Kennedy has a plan for his succession: Ted Kennedy has made clear to confidants that when his time is up, he wants his Senate seat to stay in the family - with his wife, Vicki. READ MORE >>
Wiki Woman
Back when we got basic information from encyclopedias instead of Wikipedia, politicians were at the mercy of the encyclopedia-writers' particular biases. Take the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Apparently controlled by smug British nationalists, it described the important Irish leader Charles Stewart Parnell as "not over-scrupulous," "repellent," "powerful for evil," and, owing to the "mental affliction of his ancestors," probably possessing a "mental equilibrium [that] was not always stable." READ MORE >>
Endorsement Chart
Rocky Top
In certain towns in Scotland, there exist museums filled with relics of the rebel Bonnie Prince Charlie--pieces of his tartan, portraits, goblets, scraps of things he once touched, and rings inscribed with king charles iii, as if he really had become King of England instead of dying in exile in Rome.Unbeknownst to most local tour guides, a similar kind of museum exists in Washington. It's tucked away on the fourth floor of the Dirksen Senate Office Building: the museum to the not-quite-presidency of Lamar Alexander. Here, in quarters READ MORE >>
The Squeak
The scene at the November 15, 2007 Democratic debate in Las Vegas was thick with the usual suspects—the candidates, the flacks, Wolf Blitzer, Dennis Kucinich's Amazonian wife. But there was someone who seemed out of place, a ghost of campaigns past: Howard Dean. READ MORE >>
