Morning-after thoughts about the first night of the GOP convention.

Why didn't I live-blog the GOP convention last night? I'd thought I would, and I think I live-blogged every day of both parties'...

"Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign..."

In the email. He's about to speak. I hope he goes out well, with grace. And I hope this doesn't mean there is sad news about his dau...

"Ludicrous, hysterical, brilliant – the top Republican campaign adverts."

Ana Marie Cox assembles and critiques some fabulous material. I don't have time to watch them all just yet, but I did watch Rick Santor...

Santorum "plans to bowl at at 3:15 p.m. at Pla-Mor Lanes in Chilton..."

... and he'll end the day with a rally at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay. Meanwhile, closer to Madison: "Romney is sched...

"You don't care at all about the truth."

Santorum to reporters.

Dying cultural phenomenon alert.

Whatever happened to "mic check"? Why, only last fall it was a burgeoning new cultural phenomenon. Look at Richard Kim burbling in...

"SANTORUM: Obama Is Preferable To Romney."

"No he’s not, and you just demonstrated that it’s time to end your campaign. Either you’re an idiot, or you’ve cracked under the pressu...

Why I don't delete mobys in the comments section to this blog.

First, I love free expression, and one way to express a viewpoint is to say the opposite. It's sarcasm. It can be comedy. Look at Stephe...

About that Romney line: "He's a nice guy, but he's in over his head."

James Taranto says: "He's a nice guy, but . . ." is exquisitely condescending. It's probably not true: Obama strikes us as...

Santorum's "candid comments and unconventional moves were badges of authenticity in the early contests..."

".. but they now raise doubts about Santorum’s capacity to be his party’s standard-bearer in the general election."

"Mitt Romney chomping on deep fried cheese curds?"

Hey! I was eating a cheese curd when I read that ! I was looking for some news about the upcoming Wisconsin primary. People around here are ...

Santorum lost his last Senate race by 17.4 percentage points — "the biggest for any incumbent senator in Pennsylvania since at least the Civil War."

"That eyepopping margin is the chief reason that few people took Mr. Santorum seriously last year when he started running for president...

"Santorum Promises Broad War on Porn."

Broad War ? Look, I know there's a war on women, but whose side are the women on, and weren't they originally provoked by a sexist e...

"Does Rick Santorum hate freedom and happiness?"

Asks a WaPo blogger (Allen McDuffee) , after reading what Cato Institute Executive Vice President David Boaz said: [Santorum] criticizes the...

Though Santorum got the 2 big wins yesterday, Romney won more delegates.

41 Romney, 35 Santorum...

"And yet the perception is that last week was bad for Republicans and good for the Dems. What gives?"

Says Instapundit , noting today's Rasmussen tracking poll that has Romney at 48, Obama 43 and even Santorum at 46, with Obama at 45. As ...

"You 'bout ready to go check out Super Tuesday?"

"Yeah." "I'm ready for Mitt to clinch everything in his large mitts... in his grasping paws, known as 'mitts.'...

Rush Limbaugh: "I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke."

A statement issued this afternoon. "You know who's the winner here? Romney," Meade said to me. He explains that Rush's sta...

Santorum gets as many Michigan delegates as Romney.

"Rick Santorum claimed a partial victory Wednesday when final results showed he and Mitt Romney evenly split Michigan' s 30 delegat...

Primary results, Michigan and Arizona.

Let's watch! 7:18: Gingrich is running on about a tree falling on a house. I came in in the middle and he seems deranged. 7:21: Hoosiers...