There’s a great new interview with pretend First Lady Cindy “Cougar” McCain in San Diego magazine, which is one of those glossy local lifestyle magazines for well-to-do white people. In the Q&A, Cindy reveals how much she loves spending all her time “recuperating” at a beachfront mansion she recently bought on Coronado Island — home of elite Naval commanders and their sand-cougar wives — and explains what really enrages her elderly husband: the way she’s always “bringing home stray everything.” MORE »

So it only took eight years for John McCain to win the South Carolina primary, hooray! Let’s see what the happy old coot has to say. MORE »

He is very old and lies about everything. His dream is to bomb every nation all the time, forever. He is John McCain, who should’ve been beaten again in South Carolina, like always. Instead, he’s the winner. Huckabee is conceding right now. Huckabee notes something that is both true and weird: For all of McCain’s incredible faults, he seems to run fairly clean campaigns. So, let’s give the 30-year veteran of Capitol Hill tonight’s “Maverick-Reformer All Over Again” award. That’s two for McCain. [AP/The State]

Hi, what are you people doing? Looking at the computer, on Thursday night, just a half hour before the big FOX NEWS Republican Presidential Candidate Debate from the “San Francisco of the South,” Myrtle Beach, S.C.? Well, then you’re in luck, for the liveblogging will commence just before 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific, and at some point between those two times in other places between the Pacific and the Eastern. Also: They let Ron Paul back in the debate! Looks like FREEDOM is still popular!

With Resources Spread Thin, GOP Candidates Pause for FOX News Debate in South Carolina [Fox News]