With a creepy telltale heart thumping in the background, then-Governor (and then-fattie) Mike Huckabee is seen in this commercial telling the Arkansas legislature what sort of tax increases he would accept to get the state out of a budget crisis. The right-wing anti-tax group Club for Growth would like you to be really scared that this might mean the Huck would work with Democratic leaders on taxes to help get the national government out of debt or something. Wait, what? It’s a bad thing to cooperate with the other party if it’s in the best long-term interests of the country? Oh, right, I forgot this was primary season and that the winner will be the person least like to cooperate with anyone on the other side of the aisle. Sorry! Carry on with your attack ads Club for Growth.

Yeah! WALNUTS! McCain! The Club For Growth! They don’t like each other and the fight is getting nasty! And now the battle has spilled over into that most public of venues: YouTube! MORE »

So, it turns out that Michigan had its own little centrist-incumbent-felled-by-activist-wing-of-its-party-in-the-primary thing going last night. Joe Schwarz, a moderate Republican, currently represents the 7th district, which includes the city of Battle Creek and thus America’s strategic breakfast-cereal manufacturing facilities, but he was felled by right-wing challenger Tim Walberg. There are many potential reasons why the liberal media seems to have no interest in this story while it’s slobbering all over Lieberman’s defeat: Schwarz is a lowly Representative, not a Senator; he has no harebrained schemes of running as an independent; he was only a one-term incumbent; and he was never his party’s vice presidential candidate. MORE »