I suppose Perry supporters might say that Perry is responding to the accusations that he sounds like an Occupy sympathizer with stony, angry silence. But to me, it sounds more like he’s an idiot whose synapses were blown. Or that he was afraid of saying something wrong, so he decided to not answer the question […]
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Rick Santorum, Small Government Conservative
Santorum‘s for a smaller federal government… because the smaller the federal government, the more of it Santorum can stuff in your vagina: One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea … Many in […]
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A Treasury of Herman Cain Music Videos
The bonkers Herman Cain TV ad I posted this morning got me wondering: How many Herman Cain music videos are on the internet? Answer: A LOT. First off, the rockin’ tune from the campaign ad is American Idol contestant Krista Branch’s “I Am America” (not this I Am America), which Herman Cain has adopted as […]
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“If they want to lose, this is the game for losers.”
The above quote comes from one pundit’s statement about the Republican presidential candidates being pushed to the far right by an increasingly loony Republican base. He believes that if these candidates keep taking insane positions, they’ll be unable to scramble back to the center in the general election, and he urges them to take a […]
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Rick Perry Doesn’t Quite Believe in President Obama’s Birth Certificate
In what is possibly the most interesting interview published in Parade in the last twenty-five years, Rick Perry seems to be outing himself as a birther. And—I don’t really understand this bit—part of his reasoning is that President Obama has never seen Rick Perry’s birth certificate. Governor, do you believe that President Barack Obama was […]
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Herman Cain, Choicer
I’ll just post my letter to Herman again… Dear Herman, If being gay is a choice, show us the proof. Choose it. Choose to be gay yourself. Show America how that’s done, Herman, show us how a man can choose to be gay. Suck my dick, Herman. Name the time and the place and I’ll […]
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New Mitt Romney Ad Shivs Rick Perry In the Ribs
This new Romney ad is just brutal. (The original video was pulled by Romney’s camp, but here’s a watchable version.) The Romney campaign is done pretending Perry is a real candidate and they’re publicly calling him an idiot. As we head into the last stretch before the caucuses and primaries start, the air of niceness […]
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Romney vs. Perry: On Whom Do You Wager to be the Bigger Dick??
As promised, here’s the video from last night’s GOP debate of Mitt Romney and Rick Perry’s crybaby screaming match over who can be more hateful toward “illegals.” Via TPM: (For once the audience was booing them instead of gay soldiers—but only because they weren’t given the opportunity.)
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Will It Ever Get Better for Poor Rick Santorum?
Seems that Rick Santorum is feeling “bullied” by Saturday Night Live: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized a “Saturday Night Live” skit that poked fun at his anti-gay marriage views by showing him seated at a gay bar in the Castro section of San Francisco. Santorum — depicted by actor Andy Samberg in the sketch, […]
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No Second Term for Attorney General John Kroger
The Oregonian broke the news this morning that Attorney General John Kroger won’t seek a second term. The reason is personal—Kroger says he’s being treated for an undisclosed, but not apparently life-threatening illness—although his tenure has certainly been interesting. Early on, there was that minor affair involving Messrs. Sam Adams and Beau Breedlove. Then, this […]
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Portland Business Alliance Releases Candidate Questionnaires
I think we might not be on their distribution list anymore, but whatever. The Portland Business Alliance today released the questionnaires its political folks sent to the major candidates running for mayor and city council next year, and no matter what anyone thinks of the PBA, the questions and answers are worth looking at. Of […]
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Obama Campaign to Embrace Part of the Occupy Message
Paul mentioned earlier that President Obama gave a subtle shout-out to the Occupy movement over the weekend. The people who are running Obama’s re-election effort, however, are being a lot less subtle: “We intend to make it one of the central elements of the campaign next year,” Obama senior adviser David Plouffe said in an […]