Arlen “Scottish Haggis” Specter has debased himself to fronting for the intellectually flaccid Hans von Spakovsky. Really. Is this what the conservative movement has come to?

I’m not surprised that the RNC is hiring former insta-US Attorney and expert vote cager Tim Griffin. But I AM struck by the timing.

Hans von Spakovsky complains that poor little Hans was treated unfairly in the ordeal of being prevented from re-nomination to the FEC because he made it harder for brown people to vote.

George Will, voicing the position of those (like Mitch McConnell) who don’t like getting attacked for things their attacker has done, captures the state of McCain’s attempts to hypocritically avoid the rules he himself wrote.

First, the Times muddied, with unsubstantiated sexual innuendo about a female lobbyist, a story about McCain’s flights on jets owned by corporations with business before the Senate Commerce Committee, and his meeting with a broadcaster (McCain