You may have heard about the “The Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge” that’s “dividing GOP hopefuls.” It’s a promise, if elected, to only appoint anti-choice justices, defund Planned Parenthood, and work to ban abortions in what could be interpreted as all instances—no exceptions for rape, incest, the health of the mother. Santorum signed, Bachman signed, Newt […]
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Republican Candidates Respond to President Obama’s Speech
Unsurprisingly, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty both came down on the right of President Obama’s Afghanistan speech last night. Pawlenty, especially, sounds like a neocon: “When America goes to war, America needs to win. We need to close out the war successfully.” Romney, who is running on a platform of fiscal conservatism and running America […]
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Sarah Palin Continues Her Undefeated Streak
Real Clear Politics reports that Sarah Palin has quit her bus tour halfway through, thus continuing the undefeated streak that she began when she bravely quit her position as governor halfway through her first and only term: In an apparent repudiation [sic; that should obviously be “refudiation”] to those who dismissed her trip as a […]
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Michele Bachmann’s Campaign Fails at Recent History
Michele Bachmann’s campaign on Twitter: My favorite Canadian blogger: Uh, guys — we did have a stimulus. We passed stimulus in 2009 as part of the budget, at practically the same time that the USA did: $40 billion in spending and $20 billion in tax cuts for a total of $60 billion in stimulus spending […]
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What Do You Think About the Sarah Palin Movie Poster?
Here, via Big Hollywood, is the poster for the Sarah Palin hagiography, Undefeated.
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Mitt Romney’s “…just teasing the girls”
Earlier this morning, Mitt Romney was at a photo op in a New Hampshire diner. He was posing with some waitresses. Then, things got a little weird: Before the picture was snapped, he jumped up, declaring: “Oh, my goodness,” as if a waitress had grabbed his rear. Turns out, none of the waitresses were getting […]
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Mitt Romney Dominated Last Night’s Republican Debate
Holy shit. Mitt Romney looked about as presidential as is humanly possible during last night’s Republican debate. He accomplished this goal by implementing a flawless two-part strategy: First, by speaking in coherent sentences and second, by sharing the stage with six blithering idiots. Nobody else scored any hits at all: Ron Paul sounded as crazy […]
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Breaking: Rick Santorum Has Gay Friends
Are we supposed to take Rick Santorum‘s word for the fact that he has gay friends? Gay friends who don’t mind that he opposes their right to serve in the military, wants to prevent them from marrying, doesn’t think they should be allowed to adopt or have any civil rights protections at all, felt the […]
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Max Brumm, 19, On Mayoral Run: “We Need to Grab the Horse by the Reins.”
Denis C. Theriault Really, Max Brumm is running for mayor. He knows he’s young (he’s 19). He knows he doesn’t have a lick of experience (although, “my dinner room talk is politics,” he insists). He also knows he won’t be able to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars he’ll need to stay alive in […]
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Preparing for the Palin E-Mails
A “streamlined” (read: stripped-down) media prepares to read 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails by, ugh, “crowd-sourcing.” Chris Cillizza and The Fix are asking readers to help analyze, contextualize and research those e-mails alongside Post reporters over the days following the release. The Post is limiting this to 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively […]
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Hillary Clinton Goes Job Hunting
That’s what we like to call job creation: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday…”Hillary Clinton wants the job,” said one source who knows the secretary well. […]
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Say, This Kid’s Got Spunk!
Max Brumm, mayoral candidate. In chronicling the emerging field of mayoral candidates on next year’s ballot, we’ve apparently made something of an oversight. Charlie Hales, the former city commissioner, technically isn’t the first declared contender, announcing just a few days ahead of New Seasons co-founder Eileen Brady. No, that honor goes to a young man […]