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The Myth of Mitt’s Moderateness

So much for the arguments by independents that Mitt Romney is a moderate.
Mitt is not a moderate, he’s not a liberal, he’s not a conservative. He’s a rich guy doing whatever he thinks he needs to do to claim the power that rich guys feel entitled to.
Mitt is not a moderate, he’s not a [...]

Gaffe-a-Day Romney Strikes Again

How ridiculous does your campaign pandering seem when even Jimmy Kimmel challenges your claims of American exceptionalism?

Anti-Gay Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional by 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

This is good news but because haters can’t stop hating, they will seek a stay to prevent marriages from resuming in California, which will almost certainly be granted.
Here’s coverage of the announcement by the Los Angeles Times:
A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. [...]

Ron Paul: Abortion Okay for ‘Honest’ Rapes

In his campaign for the presidency, Rep. Ron Paul insists that nothing is more important than reducing the size of government and making government less intrusive — except when it comes to the reproductive systems of American women.
When it comes to women’s bodies, Rep. Paul is all for big government. After all, somebody has [...]

The Employment Chart Guaranteed to Make Republicans’ Heads Explode

Update: Here is the link to the original source.

Romney, GOP Punk’d on ‘Self Deportation’
'Self Deportation' Was Invented As Satire by a Borat-Style 'Conservative Latino' Impersonator During Fight against the California GOP's Anti-Immigrant Proposition 187 in the 1990s

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Ties Between Ron Paul and White Supremacists Exposed

We’ve all wondered about the zealotry of Ron Paul followers and dismissed it as the idealistic naivete of his frequently young apostles. They call into radio shows and protest that their man isn’t being respected. They wave signs from freeway overpasses. They post on Facebook that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Paul still has [...]

Republican Party Boss Puts Impeaching Obama on the Table

OP boss Grover Norquist, the millionaire Washington lobbyist and leading anti-tax nerd, says he will demand that his party impeach Pres. Obama, if the president is reelected and if Congress allows the Bush tax cuts on the 1 percent to expire:
NORQUIST: Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the [...]

California GOP Loses Again

hat California Republican Party is so pathetic that it is tempting to bleeding-heart types to feel sad for them. GOP registration is on a years-long downhill slide (it could dip below 30 percent soon), and the state party is so underfunded that it could not afford to buy advertising in the 2008 campaign. In [...]

Occupy the Super PAC: Credo Targets Tea Party Freshmen

Here’s an idea for turning the Citizens United lemons into progressive lemonade, via The Hill:
A new liberal super-PAC called Credo has announced its first six targets of the 2012 campaign: GOP Reps. Joe Walsh (Ill.), Steve King (Iowa), Allen West (Fla.)*, Sean Duffy (Wis.), Chip Cravaack (Minn.) and Frank Guinta (N.H.).
All six are vulnerable: [...]