In 1986 a political operative in Texas called a press conference to say that the Democratic opponent of his boss had bugged their offices. The FBI and police investigated it and dropped the case. That Republican operative was none other than Karl Rove. So crying wolf and using the police to try and garner some […]
The wingnuts are up in arms over the NRCC pulling funds from Michelle Bachmann’s campaign. Here’s Amanda Carpenter at Town Clownhall: Last Sunday I posted how the liberals were going crazy after Bachmann said William Ayers was un-American and openly wondered about Ayers’s influence on Barack Obama on Hardball. Chris Matthews spun it to sound […]
The Republicans are trying to get Sarah ready to debate Biden: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. […]
It’s amazing that it took a child predator in the halls of Congress to get the Ethics Committee back in action. When you think of all the corruption happening in Congress, could there be anything else that would be so important for them to address? Well if your mean Jean Schmidt then yes there could […]
A front page story in Today’s Cincinnati Enquirer shows how desperate Ken Blackwell is to win: With Republican Ken Blackwell trailing by double digits in almost every poll, Blackwell’s campaign Tuesday tried to link his Democratic opponent to child sex predators – and the state Republican spokesman even raised questions about Ted Strickland’s sexuality. Blackwell […]
I guess at this point George Allen needs all the help he can get: And on Wednesday, he’ll [George Bush] attend another closed-press fundraiser for GOP Sen. George Allen of Virginia, whose race just got a bit tougher when he — unintentionally, he claims — maligned a young Indian American aide to his Democratic opponent […]
One issue that will weigh in on Ohio voter’s minds this election season is jobs. Ohio has lost an enormous amount of jobs to outsourcing and the two Senate candidates, Mike DeWine and Sherrod Brown have very differing views of free trade: Akron businessman John Johnston might have had enough. Six years ago, the registered […]
The Ohio Republican Party is really sinking to new lows: Responding to what Democrats and a political expert alike are calling a smear campaign, the state Republican Party is verbally disavowing an e-mail sent by one of its staffers that makes personal allegations against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland and his wife. But Republican party […]
Gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell has now compared gays to arsonists: Ohio’s largest LGBT civil rights organization is demanding an apology from GOP gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell after he compared gays to criminals in a newspaper interview. Asked by the Columbus Dispatch if homosexuality is a sin and if it can be cured Blackwell said: “I […]