The Associated Press, among others, confirms the sad condition of the Huckabee campaign, noted here earlier today.  Although the AP and the Politico lead with news of top advisers working without pay and some aides quitting, worse conditions are buried further down in each account: Huckabee’s campaign has stopped arranging charter flights, hotel reservations and other means of helping journalists keep up with his movements. News organizations pay their own

Here’s an idea: somebody with a facility at putting together graphic representations should get together with Karl and others who’d be willing to do so to make a chart comparing the Republican candidates’ positions on all the major issues (including those candidates who’ve since dropped out), and then juxtapose their findings against the positions staked out both in the Reagan revolution and the Contract with America. And not just the

Now that Fred Thompson has officially withdrawn from the race, the chatter will only increase about his apparent intent to not endorse another candidate, as reported by Jim Geraghty and Marc Ambinder. This is pretty cagey on Thompson’s part.  Had he endorsed his good friend, Sen. John McCain, he likely would have hurt is own standing among Fredheads.  Moreover, if McCain should win the nomination and offer the Veep slot

New York Times columnist David Brooks, in a piece touting the diversity of the GOP, writes: Many professional conservatives do not regard Mike Huckabee or John McCain as true conservatives. “I’m here to tell you, if either of these two guys get the nomination, it’s going to destroy the Republican Party,” Rush Limbaugh said recently on his radio show. “It’s going to change it forever, be the end of it.”

(or Pro-Irish, depending on your POV): Lohan, Murphy Lead Razzie ‘Worst-of’ Nominations Botched Robbery Attempt Nets Killers Short-Term Possession of 94-Year-Old Left Hand Where’s the Strangest Place You Ever Made Whoopie?  In the booth, Bob. Troubled Crack Addict Amy Winehouse Caught on Camera, Singing

No, not the delicious strong-attractive Deepak Chopraey force made from avocados that binds the country together in Hillary sociodynametaphysics, but the game, now updated:  Did the Clintons Try to Whack a Cat?  Or, Your pussy or your pussy.  The article (in Mother Jones, hilariously) gives an overall positive review to Citizens United’s Hillary: The Movie.  Those Clintons.  Uniters!

Decades of cheap umbrage have caused American’s to act as though instant access to large quantities of the stuff is a birthright: Within minutes of posting a story on CNN’s homepage called “Gender or race: Black women voters face tough choices in South Carolina,” readers reacted quickly and angrily. Readers want media to focus more on the candidates and how they feel about the issues not their gender or race.

Knowing that I enjoy going beyond horse race polls, PW regular happyfeet asked about the state of Sen. John McCain’s ground game — so I looked into the question.  What I found is the media equivalent of Goofus and Gallant. Adam Nagourney takes the role of Goofus for a New York Times article in which he writes: Republican officials said three of the candidates — Mr. Romney, Mr. McCain and Mr.

Glenn(s) Greenwald, notorious Internet sock-puppeteer, comments on a brochure posted to the web by Greg Sargent.  The brochure, which Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is distributing in South Carolina, seems to include “religious appeals at least as overt and explicit as anything Huckabee has done.”  (Emphasis in original.)  Thomas Ellers continues: Sargent speculates that the brochure is an attempt to counter the false whispering campaign increasingly being circulated in South Carolina (by whom, we should

Last night’s Punch, Judy & Silky show in South Carolina provides an opportunity to revisit Peter Fonda’s assessment of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chances of victory, as well as some timeless protein wisdom from 70’s teen idol Leif Garrett on presidential debates in general. P.S.  In case you missed it, our esteemed host posted a web design bleg yesterday in which he mentioned that he would “get back into posting regularly.”  That