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The Republican Party Has Become The Party Of Paranoia…(The POP)

Posted on March 14, 2012 by | 12 Comments

Mommy, I’m Scared!

Some of the rhetoric coming from the Republican candidates for president makes me wonder if a group of paranoid schizophrenics weren’t prematurely released from a mental institution, without their meds.

I’ve pasted one example from each candidate of that paranoia.  Search in Google to find many more or just watch a cable news network for a half hour.

Newt Gingrich: “All of you should be very deeply concerned about national security. Barack Obama is the most dangerous president in modern American history,” Gingrich said.

Rick Santorum: “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob,” said the former senator from Pennsylvania. “There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor to try to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image.”

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Ron Paul's Missing Radio Interview – The White Supremacist One

Posted on December 25, 2011 by | 91 Comments

“Is This Thing Recording? Check, Check”

I’ve heard Ron Paul described as “plain-spoken” way too many times. I guess if you define “plain spoken” as simplistic and with few words — then yes, he surely fits that definition.

Personally, I’ve never been impressed with that type of person or politician. I often wonder what they are hiding with their simplification. Is it ignorance, bias or just a desire to appeal to the populist crowd?

It is clear that many years ago, Ron Paul either authored or allowed his name to be signed on a newsletter that spewed some of the worst of the racist and anti-Semitic propaganda that was prevalent in the late 80s and 90s. To get caught up on that Ron Paul newsletter story, check out Joy Reid’s writing at The Reid Report.

But this story caught my eye and adds some context to Ron Paul’s denials on the newsletters. In 2006, Ron Paul was scheduled to appear and may have appeared on a White Supremacist radio show called The Political Cesspool. Charles Johnson describes it for us… Continue reading →

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Mitt Romney – Either Naive Or A Panderer Be

Posted on December 17, 2011 by | 2 Comments

“I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake, I can’t have illegals.” – Mitt Romney

The problem with a candidate like Mitt Romney, who will say anything at anytime with no regard for what came before, is that it catches up with you. Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly shows us a great example of this.

…Here’s a gem from Iowa earlier today:

“Medicaid. You wonder what Medicaid is; those who aren’t into all this government stuff. You know, I have to admit, I didn’t know the differences between all these things until I got into government. Then I got into it and I understood that Medicaid is the health care program for the poor, by and large.”

I see. So, Mitt Romney, despite two degrees from Harvard, learned what Medicaid is when he became governor in 2002. He was 55 years old at the time.

Before he “got into government” and discovered what Medicaid is, Romney helped run a health company, which relied heavily on funding from — you guessed it — Medicare and Medicaid. What’s more, in his book, Romney boasts about having been a health care consultant, where he developed an expertise in how to deal with entitlements.

So he either really didn’t know about Medicaid, even after running a health company, or he’s just making shit up for whatever audience he’s talking to. More from Steve Benen…

Now, I know what some of you are thinking. “Romney didn’t mean what he said this morning,” you’re going to tell me. “He was only saying he didn’t understand Medicaid so that he could pretend to relate to the people in the audience. This wasn’t ignorance; it was pandering.”

Perhaps. I can’t say with certainty what Romney is ignorant of, and what he only pretends to be ignorant of.

This is going to be a fun year.

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Prithee, My Good Gentle-readers. Live-Blogging the GOP Debate Tonight, Edu-macated Style.

Posted on December 15, 2011 by | 4 Comments

Greetings, my good  gentle-readers.  If you hearken back to my last scribblings on the erudite interchange between the erstwhile hopeful nominees in the party of the venal, er, venerable Ronald Regan, I was informed that I was a dumb f* – by the way if one cannot bring oneself to type “dumbfuck” then perhaps one should find an acceptable substitute that does not offend one’s delicate sensitivities, yes? – for not affording the property dignity to such an important occasion.  I unkindly told said commenter to go fuck him/herself**, and while I still stand by that sentiment, I have taken his/her admonishments to heart.  Therefore, I will treat this debate sponsored by Fox News, well-renowned for being fair and balanced and shit–take mushrooms***, with all the pomp and circumstance that it deserves.  So, I shall slip on my smoking jacket, tamp down the tobacco in my briar pipe, and gently swirl the cognac in my brandy snifter as I proffer thoughtful commentary of the GOP debate tonight.

Important information, I have a tai chi class until 7:30 p.m., asiangrrlMN**** time, and the debate is only livestreaming on FoxNews.com, starting at 8 p.m., asiangrrlMN time.  Therefore, I will probably have to join the shenanigans already in process.  I highly doubt I will miss anything of import, but if I do, you must all inform me as I will schedule this to post at 7:45 p.m.  In other words, we will be doing this bollocks live, whether I am present or not.
(Pray, good people, follow the jump for more erudite discussion)

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The vocabulary of bad behavior: Adultery, harassment, assault, and rape.

Posted on November 29, 2011 by | 17 Comments

Source: Melina Mara/The Washington Post/Getty Images

Herman Cain is imploding. If anyone’s still pretending this is a surprise, can we stop that right now? I would also be grateful if we could finally stop acting as if he was ever a serious contender for the GOP nomination. He wasn’t, and not just because he’s black. Cain was never a serious contender because he’s wildly ignorant, and borderline crazy. The GOP has a history of allowing these people (Bachmann, Perry, Santorum, Paul, Cain, etc) to toddle out onto the stage and push the boundaries of civil conversation a little farther out, squeezing out every last drop of anti-social outrage they can, and then tossing them onto history’s famous scrapheap, in favor of the one fella who has money and isn’t certifiable. In 2008, it was John McCain. In 2012, it’ll be Mitt Romney. Have we cleared that up? (No, it won’t be Gingrich. Stop that! He’s made too many Republicans mad. Much as they hate Romney, they hate Gingrich more). (No! Not Huntsman either! He’s too reasonable, and too poor. Maybe 2016, when they’re done purging the party of the crazy following what they already know will be Obama’s re-election). (Yes. That’s what’s going to happen. Can we get to the point now? Thank you).

Herman Cain’s silly White House run having served more as useful foolishness than reality, I don’t have any interest in discussing it as a political exercise. I do, however, have a very real interest in using it to continue the conversation I started at my place earlier this month about the ways in which harassment and assault shape women’s days, and to move into the vocabulary we use in conversations about sexual violence, whether they are about Herman Cain, or Jerry Sandusky, or Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or the asshole down the street.

Cain stands accused of three things:

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Cain Unable: Brainwashing For Dummies

Posted on September 29, 2011 by | 23 Comments

Herman Cain is going to need a bigger shovel for this hole he’s in.

Look, I know Republicans have a pretty terrible opinion of African-American voters, but it’s just another thing entirely to see African-American Republicans with terrible opinions of African-American voters.

 

The one African-American running for the GOP presidential nomination said Wednesday the black community was ‘brainwashed’ for traditionally siding with liberal politicians.

“African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view,” Cain said on CNN’s “The Situation Room” in an interview airing Wednesday between 5-7 p.m. ET. “I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple.”

 

Ho boy.  Yeah, see…some free political campaign advice there, Herman.  When you’re trying to convince a voting bloc to back you, it’s best not to insult them as “brain-washed” and “not open minded”.  In fact, I believe that’s the chief complaint I hear from the Tea Party about how liberals supposedly feel about them.  Given this evidence, I’m going to say that particular complaint is projection, plain and simple.

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Cornel West And Tavis Smiley Have Never Supported President Obama!

Posted on September 20, 2011 by | 17 Comments

With Friends Like These…

As Dr. Cornel West continues his crusade to undermine our President, I keep hearing how he was once a supporter of President Obama. If he did claim to be a supporter, it was just that — a claim.

I decided to go back in time with the help of Google and find out if he ever REALLY supported Barack Obama and exactly when it was that Dr. West and his sidekick, Tavis Smiley, began their assault on our first black president.

I typed into the search bar the words “Cornel West Supports Obama” and then proceeded to weed through hundreds of hits about Cornel’s criticism of President Obama, page after page after page of links to stories about “black mascots” and “oligarchs and plutocrats” and “fear of free black men”. There were articles by conservatives and liberals, all using Cornel West to justify their own hatred and dislike for our President.

I came across one transcript from an interview he did with Amy Goodman about 2 weeks after the election where Dr. West very cautiously applauds the election of President Obama, but you can already begin to see the formulation of his strategy to undermine him.

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Meanwhile, This Is Going On: How We Win in 2012

Posted on September 3, 2011 by | 16 Comments

OMG! ScheduleGate! EPAgeddon! 

Oh shut up.

Here’s some of our bench for the 2012 campaign. They’re in.

And I have a great deal of confidence in them.

Feel free to use this as an Open Thread. I’ll even give you a topic:

What are you doing to win in 2012 and to send Obama a better Congress for his second term?

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The Race From Here: Pew Research On 2012

Posted on August 26, 2011 by | 12 Comments

Everything you need to know about Pew Research’s pretty detailed 2012 poll comes from these two charts, first the party/demographic breakdown chart of President Obama’s approval ratings:

 

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Whites and people 50 and older really, really do not like President Obama, at about the same rate, mid 30′s for, mid 50′s against.   But a funny thing happens when you ask them to actually choose a Republican to vote for:

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