The age of computerized online ad placement has resulted in some odd juxtapositions, like this article in Political Wire announcing that Gordon Smith has lost the Senate race in Oregon, accompanied by an ad asking you to vote for Smith. One also has to wonder why someone is running a “get out the vote” ad […]
Karl Rove is predicting that Obama will win the election, with a 338 to 200 electoral vote victory. Of course, people still wearing their tinfoil hats will probably say that this is a cynical ploy to get voters to stay home, to benefit down-ticket Republicans. Prove them wrong. Go vote. However, if I were being […]
The following is an email written by a Republican Party volunteer in Florida, which was forwarded to a distribution list by the local GOP chairman, David Storck. Oops. This e-mail was sent to me from one of our Volunteers in the Temple Terrace office. If you think it can help us win this election please […]
Reader Aaron Rowe sends this photo he took about 20 miles South of Fort Worth, Texas: There are so many ways this is ironic: Normally billboards like this say to keep the state green, not red, but I guess considering the surroundings it is a little too late for that. While the color red is […]
Virtual open warfare is breaking out between the social conservative and moderate arms of the Republican party. And some big name Republicans like Colin Powell and Scott McClellan are backing Obama (see more at the Republicans for Obama website). And Politico has an interesting article about what is going on inside the McCain campaign itself. […]
First there was the Sarah Palin Fictional Quote Generator, then the Snarky McCain-Palin Automatic Haiku Poetry Generator, and now there is the: Repooblican Party Policy Generator Here are some examples: My friends, we will abolish the regulation of the pro-life agenda by cutting funding to Afghan warlords. We will pump billions of dollars into multi-millionaire […]
Have you noticed how the GOP has stopped complaining about ACORN since the owner of a company hired by the GOP to do voter registration was arrested for registration fraud? The same company has been “slamming” — a term that was invented to describe phone companies switching long distance carriers without the permission of customers, […]
It turns out that voting Democratic — not just for president, but for congress too — might be the only way to save the Republican Party. Over at the conservative Reason Online, Radley Balko explains: Nothing short of defeat will put the GOP back on its limited government track. … In the last eight years, […]
From Daily Kos. I don’t know what’s worse — what she originally said, or her ability to lie about what she said.
The Federal Election Commission just released info about the Republican National Convention, specifically who paid for it: Freddie Mac, and AIG — both of whom were just bailed out by the US government — somehow seemed to have enough money to give a quarter of a million dollars each. JPMorgan — who bought troubled Bear Stearns […]
UPDATE: Bachmann’s opponent has received a deluge of donations since this happened! UPDATE2: Watch Katrina Vanden Heuvel respond to Michelle Bachmann.
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