John Cornyn Puts The Target On His Own Back
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 2nd at 02:09 PM |
This is stunning hypocrisy. The head of Republican Senate campaign efforts said late Monday that GOPers in New York’s 23rd district “[paid] the price” for picking a nominee in a hotly contested special election behind closed doors. But wait . . . it gets better. NRSC spokesman Brian Walsh said on Monday that Cornyn’s tweet was directed at the local party and not at the | Read More »
Charlie Crist Delenda Est
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 1st at 04:08 PM |
Dede Scozzafava is out. We must now do to Crist what we did to Scozzafava. He’s even more a potential menace simply by virtue of being a potential Senator.
BREAKING: Rich Heffley Admits It Was All Him Doing The Anti-Rubio Website
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 30th at 10:58 PM |
At first he would neither confirm nor deny it. Then Rich Heffley insisted he was not behind the anti-Rubio website truthaboutrubio.com, but he knew who was. Now Rich Heffley admits it was all him. Notice how he waits until a Friday night to do it. Heffley still denies he was also behind the Hitler video despite removing everything about it from his website when we | Read More »
Rich Heffley Denies and Admits His Involvement
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 29th at 04:13 PM |
Poor Rich Heffley. After refusing to deny his involvement in the anti-Rubio website to a reporter yesterday and refusing to deny his involvement in the anti-Crist Hitler video, today he is issuing a non-denial. You see, it was not him who set up the website, but he passed along lots of the research. So . . . considering the source file we found . . | Read More »
Charlie Crist Gets Desperate. Senator George LeMieux Appears To Be Involved In the Rubio Attack Too.
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 29th at 10:55 AM |
Charlie Crist is the front runner in the Florida Senate race. He is also the incumbent Governor of Florida. By any reasonable measure, including fundraising, the Florida Senate race should be his for the taking. Except it is not happening for him. Charlie Crist is becoming so desperate that his campaign has descended to farcical parodies of Nixonian tactics. The campaign has decided to attack | Read More »
There is even more evidence that Crist and Heffley probably broke federal law
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 29th at 09:42 AM |
Within an hour last night of RedState tying the anti-Crist (no, not anti-Christ) Hitler video to Crist’s own campaign team in an effort to smear Marco Rubio, the website Crist’s team set up had been taken completely offline. It’s back up today thanking RedState for giving it exposure. It’s kind of hard for us to send traffic their way when they have to take the | Read More »
Did Charlie Crist and Rich Heffley Create the Charlie Crist Hitler Video?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 28th at 08:46 PM |
UPDATE: Within an hour of posting this, the anti-Rubio site is now totally offline — server will not respond. ————————————- The plot thickens in Florida. A video popped up on YouTube on October 24, 2009, using the standard Hitler clip all the kids are using these days to mock Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s Senate campaign against conservative stalwart and Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio. Naturally, | Read More »
Rich Heffley and Charlie Crist Fail In Their Rubio Attack. Potentially Violate Federal Law. [UPDATED]
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 28th at 07:33 PM |
I’ve put the original post here below the fold. It needs to now be substantially updated and is worth rewriting. This morning, to great fanfare in Florida, an anonymous website called truthaboutrubio.com went live. The website was registered one day ago on October 27, 2009, but it purported to have content all the way back to 2007. RedState probed the source code of the website | Read More »
Charlie Crist Attacks Marco Rubio With a Fake (and poorly done) Website
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 28th at 02:39 PM |
Talk about desperation. Charlie Crist has set up a fake website to cover the “truth” about Marco Rubio.. Why do I call it a fake website? Well, the website’s domain registry shows this: Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: TRUTHABOUTRUBIO.COM Created on: 27-Oct-09 Expires on: 27-Oct-11 Last Updated on: 27-Oct-09 The website has blog posts time stamped all the way back to 2007 even | Read More »
Marco Rubio on Morning Joe
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 27th at 10:30 AM |
Well done. This is a great interview.
Charlie Crist Delenda Est
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 21st at 09:35 AM |
Charlie Crist may be well tanned, but he cannot be well rested. After the Chamber of Commerce dropped a nuke into the race this past weekend by leaking polling results showing Rubio has cut significantly into Charlie Crist’s lead, we have a new public poll. Governor Charlie Crist of Florida, running in a Republican Primary against Florida’s former Speaker of the House, is looking to | Read More »
Holy Cow! A Nuclear Bomb Goes Off in the Florida Senate Race
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 18th at 12:41 PM |
Only three months ago, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, declared by Barack Obama to be his favorite Republican, maintained a 30 point lead over Marco Rubio. The Chamber of Commerce this weekend released a new poll this weekend that has lots of people buzzing in Florida. Only days after Crist’s top supporters began to buzz that Crist might drop out of the race, the Chamber of | Read More »
Top Crist Supporters Openly Speculate Crist May Drop Out
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 16th at 01:52 PM |
It has gotten so bad for Obama’s favorite Republican, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, that Crist is on a state wide “I’m a conservative” tour. Unfortunately for Crist, he’s done himself no favors. Recently Crist attacked Rubio via a Miami political columnist. His argument was that Rubio is poorer than Crist and that Rubio supported massive state budgets. Rubio’s response? Crist’s original budgets were larger than | Read More »
When Charlie Crist Attacks It Means He is Running Scared
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 3rd at 06:56 PM |
Charlie Crist is starting to feel the heat from Marco Rubio. Crist, Florida’s Republican Governor, has not yet won a Republican straw poll. Consequently, he has taken to use Beth Reinhard, a Miami political columnist, to claim Rubio is not a real conservative. Never mind the humor of a liberal trying to claim Rubio is not a conservative. It’s very Wizard of Oz with Crist, | Read More »
Must Read of the Day: Marco Rubio Taking on the RINOs
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 30th at 01:38 PM |
From Elisabeth Meinecke: Don’t tell Marco Rubio his primary race for the U.S. senate against Florida Gov. Charlie Crist depends on money or endorsements. Rubio, who finished his term as Florida’s Speaker of the House in 2008, is focused on a much bigger picture: limiting government and thus liberating American entrepreneurship. The impetus behind his campaign is that same wave of conservative outrage which carried | Read More »
The Fighting Four — Countdown to the End of the Quarter
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 23rd at 08:32 AM |
Unless you are on RSS, you should see the widget below to give to Michael Williams, Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, and Chuck Devore. if you don’t see the widget, well, then, you are out of luck, but you should still give.
15 Days and We’re Not Meeting the Goal
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 16th at 11:24 AM |
No sense in being coy about it. We’re not meeting our goal. In fact, the fundraising for these four sucks. I know cash is tight, but unless conservatives are willing to step up to the plate, we’re not going to get these guys elected and, frankly, the establishment of the Republican Party will keep ignoring us. Let’s be honest. One of the reasons the left | Read More »
15 Days For the Conservative Fighting Four
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 15th at 01:56 PM |
Have you given yet? Imagine a world where Marco Rubio, Chuck Devore, Pat Toomey, and Michael Williams work together in the Senate with Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn. Imagine a world where they push the GOP to the right in the Senate and stop the culture of capitulation. Give what you can. Embed this same widget on your website. Let’s raise them some money.
Supporting the Conservative Fighting Four
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 14th at 05:30 AM |
I won’t call this the “screw the NRSC” fundraiser, but I’m sorely tempted. Each of you has a favorite Senate candidate this cycle. Here are four guys we want to see in the Senate. Let’s try to raise them $250,000.00 in the next 20 days. Click on the guy you like, learn a little about him, and give him some money. Together, we can move | Read More »
On the NRSC Memo: What About Florida and Texas. And Fiorina?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | September 8th at 11:28 PM |
I don’t know a single Republican leaning blog that got tipped off about Senator John Cornyn’s memo to the Senate Republican Conference. Brian Walsh from the NRSC just emailed to let me know he had, in fact, emailed me earlier today with a copy of the email. For reasons unbeknownst to either of us, I got one responding to the Devore press release, but no | Read More »