The two top contenders for the 2012 GOP Presidential nod are facing increased hostility in the GOP electorate a new poll from PPP finds. Here’s some of the interesting numbers: 20% find that Romney’s Mormon religion is a problem. 30% Believe that Newt’s three divorces are a disqualifier. 61% won’t vote for Romney because of […]
Tea Party Nation has just blasted out an email blaming Obama for the rising gas prices (login required): As we close out 2010, gas prices in much of the country crept about the $3 a gallon mark. In an interview a couple of days ago, the ex-president of Shell oil predicted $5 a gallon gas […]
Looks like the Rev. Terry Jones got an unexpected visit today: A few men entered the Dove World Outreach Center building today who identified themselves as FBI, they did not make any comments to the press. Both Pastor Terry Jones and his associate pastor are saying they are carrying weapons because of death threats. I […]
His name is Thurgood Marshall and he is being used as a strawman to go after Kagan in her confirmation hearings. But there’s a problem. After the GOP used Marshall left and right yesterday, they couldn’t even cite one ruling of Marshall’s that they disagree with. I hope they can come up with something soon, […]
Writing in an op-ed in today’s Mooney Times, Jeffery Kuhner floats the idea of impeaching President Obama if health care reform passes. His argument is the same old strawman we have been hearing all week – the “deem and pass” of the House of Representative: Many Democrats could claim they opposed the Senate bill while […]
What happens when a commenter on a right wing blog disagrees with the rest of the people there? Easy – they are tagged as some “leftist invader”. Now Andrew Breitbart is on the war path against these “leftist invaders”: A digital war has broken out, and the conservative movement is losing. Read the comment sections […]
Andrew Sullivan raises a great point by asking that very question. The right is in a frenzy over the article I posted earlier about the released Gitmo detainee that was involved in the U.S. embassy attack in Yemen. What they are trying to do is create a strawman here. If our prisons are so at […]
This guy really is coo-coo for Coco Puffs: Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Friday he fears that anti-American extremists might attempt spectacular attacks in Iraq to try to tilt the U.S. election against him. We have been hearing the violence in Iraq is on the rise again. I guess this is McCain’s way of […]
Lester Holt interviewed Obama and asked him about the Clinton’s bring race into the campaign. Obama said what Bill and many of us in the blogosphere said – the Clinton’s aren’t brining race into it, the media is. Good for Obama. He just went up even more in my book. He could have easily taken […]
Morris ends this little rant with this doozy: We need to dissect and deconstruct all the Clinton words to determine whether there is a racial implication beneath them. Often it will be there. Sounds like Dick is creating his own little strawman there.