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We do not support government bailouts of private institutions

This is taken directly from the 2008 Republican Platform: We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for […]

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Meesa Gonna Vote for John McCain!

© Brian McFadden

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The 8000 pound elephant in the room

© Adam Zyglis

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Triumph the Insult Dog at the Republican Convention

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Washington is broken

© Matt Davies

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The Republican National Convention in a minute

From 23/6.

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Cindy McCain’s $300,000 outfit

It’s a good thing someone is paying attention to these details! Vanity Fair has done an estimate of the cost of the clothing worn by Cindy McCain and Laura Bush. Laura Bush, obviously trying hard to not appear elitist, wore clothing with an estimated cost of between $3500 and $4300. But Cindy McCain apparently didn’t get […]

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The (Republican) Survivors of Hurricane Gustav

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Republican Convention Schedule (pre-Gustav)

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Divine Providence in Minneapolis

Republicans are saying that they might have to cancel, postpone, or at the very least scale back their national convention because of Hurricane Gustav, which is expected to slam into Louisiana as a deadly Category 4 or 5 storm on Monday. Note that Hurricane Katrina had weakened to Category 3 before it hit Louisiana. It’s […]

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Open Season on Democrats

The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party died Wednesday after a lone gunman entered his office and shot him several times. Meanwhile, some people still think it is funny to sell t-shirts that encourage shooting Democrats.

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What if they held a convention, and nobody came?

Republicans just can’t get a break.  In April, the Nevada Republican party held their state convention, but then abruptly shut it down when Ron Paul supporters were about to elect their own delegates to the national convention. The Republicans promised to reconvene a new state convention this month, but have now cancelled those plans, claiming […]

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New York Republicans Self Destruct in District 13

As Electoral-Vote points out, for Republicans NY-13 is the congressional district that keeps on giving: First, Republican Congressman Vito Fossella tries to prove his love of family values by having two families. Fossella decides not to run for reelection. The Republicans pick Francis Powers to run for his seat, but his son (Francis Powers Junior) announces […]

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Republicans selling fear

from wftv.com

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New GOP Elephant?

© Cam Cardow History of the original Republican mascot.

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