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Crooks and Liars
Rand Paul has spent the better part of a week ducking accusations that he harbors racist beliefs. By burying his racial attitudes under a veneer of libertarianism, he has almost convinced our worthless mainstream media that it’s possible to believe businesses should deny people the right to enter their . . . → Read More: Rand Paul’s Base: Racists or Corporations or Both?  Source: NPR A campaign staff member for Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Miller was told to exercise more caution Friday after sending a tweet that appeared to liken a possible party switch by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Miller’s GOP rival, to prostitution. Murkowski’s campaign responded by calling the tweet “disgusting” and demanding an apology. Alaska‘s . . . → Read More: Another Dumbass Tea Party Candidate– Joe Miller– Linking US Senator Lisa Murkowski to a Prostitute Source: Salon William Whitman “Will” Harsh — the younger, more racist, but less violent son of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman — was apparently a bullying jerk a couple weeks ago. Harsh is a student at Princeton and, apparently, the president of the rugby team. The story, from a Princeton graduate student: I play in the summer . . . → Read More: Meg Whitman Son Again Accused of Being a Bully. Accusation True? Source: Washington Post Yet the Republican Party suffers its own difficulty — an untested ideology at the core of its appeal. In the normal course of events, political movements begin as intellectual arguments, often conducted for years in serious books and journals. To study the Tea Party movement, future scholars will sift through the . . . → Read More: Conservative Columnist Michael Gerson: Why the Tea Party is Toxic for the GOP Source: The Plum Line GOP Senate candidate Roy Blunt‘s campaign has pulled down a Web video displaying the smoldering remains of the 9/11 attacks alongside audio of his Democratic opponent saying the location of the Islamic center should be up to New Yorkers to decide. And now the Dem, Robin Carnahan, is going on . . . → Read More: Republicans and Cronies Do Not Want Mosque Built but Love Exploiting 9/11 Tragedy. (Video) Ask Roy Blunt Amanda Marcotte/Salon/XXFactor Why can’t the Republican party do a better job of wrangling Sharron Angle? It can’t be that expensive to put at least one person on her to research everyone she associates with, so she can be run off spending time with some of her nuttier allies. This morning, John Ralston of the . . . → Read More: Sharron Angle Speaks To Group of HIV Deniers, Fringe Medical Group Matt DeLong/Washington Post Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle gave a revealing interview Monday over the weekend to Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, in which she said that her campaign wanted the press “to be our friend.” “We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer, so that they report the news the way . . . → Read More: Video: Sharron Angle– Press Should ‘Ask The Questions We Want To Answer’ Flashbacks To 2008 Jon Ralston/Las Vegas Sun It was rejected by the Senate this week. But here’s what Sharron Angle said to conservative talker Heidi Harris today (audio at right): Harris: Interesting story, or I should say Op-Ed, in the Washington Post this morning, ‘Where does Sharron Angle, what does Sharron Angle believe about campaign finance?’ The . . . → Read More: Sharron Angle: DISCLOSE Act Already Exists (Except It Doesn’t). Nevada Residents: Proud of This Candidate?  Daniel Stone/The Gaggle D.C. flacks like to complain that sometimes a juicy Washington narrative can take on a life of its own based on nothing but rumors. It was certainly the case last week when, seemingly out of no where, Jeb Bush waswidely floated as a candidate in the race for the 2012 GOP . . . → Read More: Another Bush In The White House? No Thank You! Jeb Bush Says No To 2012
Aaron Blake/Washington Post A new video shows Ken Buck, the leading Republican candidate in a Colorado Senate race, repeatedly using the word “bull—-” and saying that voters should choose him over his female primary opponent “because I do not wear high heels.” Buck, the Weld County district attorney, made the remarks . . . → Read More: GOP Male Candidate: Vote For Me ‘Because I Do Not Wear High Heels’ (Video) |
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