Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2008

James at OTB:

Radio talk king Rush Limbaugh told his audience yesterday that he might not support the Republican nominee for president this year. Rob Port has the audio and the relevant transcript:

CALLER: Earlier you had mentioned that when

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davidl on January 21st, 2008

The early returns from the Martin Luther King Day debate in South Carolina are in.   Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama attack each other with dead fish.    Wolf  Blitzer and John Edwards are also present, somewhere.

Partial transcript, via Ben Smith,

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2008

Bob Krum:

In the presidential straw poll at the 2006 Southern Republican Leadership Conference held in Memphis I cast a write-in vote for Fred Thompson. That might make me the first person in America to have voted for Fred for

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  • Spent some of today rebuilding a Palm Pilot E2 out of scrap parts.You may recall I had bought a junker to strip for parts for my own unit, but still needed a screen. So, I got another screen. Which left

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davidl on January 21st, 2008

B.J. Clinton and Mike Huckabee, the dopes from HopeMaybe it is something in the Arkansas water?   Mike Huckabee wants a free pass on the examination of his liberal record.  If you criticize the Huckster’s record, he calls it dirty politics.  Now the other dope from Hope, B.J. Clinton

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Eric Florack on January 21st, 2008

If there were ever a bigger and more fanciful case of wishful thinking than Krugman’s New York Times article, today, I’ve never seen it. He’s going well over and above his usual fantasy mongering, here:

Maybe Mr. Obama was,

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davidl on January 20th, 2008

Barack Obama does what Mrs. Clinton is either unable or unwilling to do, stand-up to B.J. Clinton,  ABC News:

Sen. Barack Obama says he’s ready to confront former President Bill Clinton, calling his advocacy on behalf of his wife’s

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  • Seen in a truck window: How good can any campaign finance reform be, that still lets John McCain in as President?
  • I use Bloglines. Used it for years and consider it part of my daily routine. They’ve got a new

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2008

Victor Davis Hanson at The Corner earlier today:

It seems that Romney, Thompson, and Huckabee supporters might at least consider that there is a chance that McCain will be nominated and these “I’ll sit it out” conservatives should begin thinking

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2008

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Allan Melvin, a character actor best known for playing Sam the Butcher on “The Brady Bunch,” has died. He was 84.Allan Melvin played Archie Bunker’s friend Barney Hefner on “All in the Family.”

Allen MelvinMelvin died

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2008

Jon Adler at The Corner, earlier today:

Last week Michael Gerson wrote a remarkably unserious column in which he suggested Fred Thompson lacked “moral seriousness” because he failed to embrace President Bush’s global AIDS initiative with sufficient vigor.  Looking

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2008

I see you, Brian, and no, I do not agree that I’m being pushed off principle, here.

I reject the premise that the guy was innocent on several levels, but the most important of them is that I reject and

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Eric Florack on January 20th, 2008

Suzanne PleshetteLOS ANGELES- (AP)- Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced star best known for her role as Bob Newhart’s sardonic wife on television’s long-running “The Bob Newhart Show,” has died at age 70.Pleshette, whose career included roles in such films as Hitchcock’s “The

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davidl on January 20th, 2008

Jeff Goldstein, Protien Wisdom:

I will not, will not, vote for John McCain.

I will not, will not, vote for Mike Huckabee.

I will not, will not, vote for Ron Paul – unless he runs for Fuhrer. In

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davidl on January 20th, 2008

Michael Graham, National Review:

McCain is a weak candidate by any measure. Only once in his two presidential races has John McCain ever won a majority of the vote, and that was Michigan in 2000. He has yet to

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