As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Story 1:
North Korea punishing those who 'didn't display enough sadness over Kim Jong Il's death'
North Korean authorities are reportedly punishing citizens who did not display enough sadness over the death ...
In case you missed the story, Pope Benedict made headlines this week by doing what it is popes do best - putting the irrational fear of God into his followers.
The ...
Romney was asked whether questions dealing with distribution of wealth and power were a matter of jealousy or fairness.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class ...
If one could meld the Republican presidential candidates into a single person, what would emerge? I was thinking along the lines of Jekyll and Hyde and the result, as demonstrated ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: “I’ll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student. When he releases that, talk to me about my tax returns.”
A foreign student? For all his supposed good ol’ boy charm and much-touted Christian values, Huckabee is just another run-of-the-mill, right-wing, lying jackass spewing the same birther-crap that’s been refuted time and time again.
And what exactly does the President’s college transcripts have to do with Romney releasing his tax returns? Nothing.
Bill Maher had a great comment last night about how Romney and his cohorts on the right have created a fictional person to do battle with. They refer to this opponent as Barack Obama but, in truth, bears no resemblance to the actual person. Their President Obama is a Marxist who cannot put two thoughts together without the help of a teleprompter. Their Obama is a tax-raising, money-spending, freedom-hating, Constitution-abusing, power-hungry simpleton who goes around the world apologizing for the U.S.
Any resemblance between the right’s Obama and the one who sits in the White House is nonexistent.
And the further to the right one goes on the political spectrum, the more bizarre the accusations. Obama is then attributed with siding with the terrorists, is of the Muslim religion and in all likelihood was born in Kenya. Hello, Orly Taitz and Mike Huckabee.
The right has gone completely mad. There’s no other rational explanation.
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There you have it, a perfect example of the right-wing fringe in action which has become less fringe and more mainstream with each passing day . And should anyone make the claim that Taitz is more exception than rule, than may I suggest that either: a) you have not been paying attention to the endless stream of hysteria emerging from the right over the last three years or b) over-exposure to Fox has undoubtedly fried one brain cell too many.
The age of teabagging/birtherism/lunacy/batshit crazy is fully upon us and all it took was the simple act of voting in a black liberal to the White House.
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OK. So the President releases his long form birth certificate and birtherism is dealt a fatal blow as the 67% of Republicans who were unsure of Obama’s place of birth let out a collective sigh of relief and finally come to accept this man as their President. Right? Wrong. It’s not over and it’ll never be over for as long as this president’s skin color continues to cast a non-white hue.
The bigots will never admit it but birtherism has its roots in racism and no document will take away the true birther’s view that this president is illegitimate. Here’s Joseph Farah of WorldNutDaily on the issue:
“The certificate of live birth is an absolutely vital foundation for determining constitutional eligibility of any president. We look forward to reviewing it like so many other Americans do at this late date. But it is important to remember there are still dozens of other questions concerning this question of eligibility that need to be resolved to assure what has become a very skeptical public concerning Barack Obama’s parentage, his adoption, his citizenship status throughout his life and why he continues to cultivate a culture of secrecy around his life.”
As I said, nothing has changed. For racists, the President is a ni**er and doubly so when his middle name is Hussein. And as anyone who has ever attempted to debate a bigot can confirm, there is nothing that can possibly change a dull little mind and minds don’t come any duller than those of birthers.
I’m not completely certain what the deal is with Donald Trump these days. Is his birther posturing of late simply an act or is the man a total nutcase? Probably a bit of both. In any case, he’s now gotten into a verbal battle with New York Time’s columnist, Gail Collins, who wrote a stinging critical piece on Trump’s presidential aspirations.
Donald Trump has run faux campaigns for president before, flirting with the Democrats and independents. This time, he’s playing a conservative Republican. By 2016, he’ll probably be talking about his affinity for the Alaskan Independence Party or the Whigs.
Trump took exception to the criticism and especially to being referred to as a birther – a term which he feels is derogatory. Well, he’s right on that count. It is a derogatory term, as it should be. It refers to people who are delusionally insane and/or unwilling to accept the fact that a black man has made it to the White House. Take your pick. And as long as Trump continues with his ‘show us the birth certificate‘ idiocy, birther is a fitting term to describe him.
Trump fired back with a letter to the Times in which he personally attacked Collins…
Even before Gail Collins was with the New York Times, she has written nasty and derogatory articles about me. Actually, I have great respect for Ms. Collins in that she has survived so long with so little talent. Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many bestsellers), is not at a very high level. More importantly, her facts are wrong!
He also went on to repeat the same debunked claims that President Obama was not born in the U.S.
Open your eyes, Gail, there’s at least a good chance that Barack Hussein Obama has made mincemeat out of our great and cherished Constitution!
I always love when President Obama’s opponents make note of his middle name in their attacks. It’s as if they believe that repeating the word “Hussein” somehow adds weight and credibility to their arguments. Idiots.
Anyway, best line of the Trump/Collins battle goes to Ms. Collins. Referring to the Trump escapades of late (he also believes that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s ‘Dreams From My Father‘), Collins writes:
I find this a disturbing spectacle — a little like seeing a guy you know from the neighborhood suddenly turn up in the middle of Times Square with his face painted blue and yelling about space aliens.
So what exactly makes Trump any different from the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls such as Bachmann, Gingrich and Palin? Not much really. They’re one sorry lot of clowns, fools, liars, sociopaths and jackasses.
All in all, it tells you a whole lot about the state of that particular political party. It doesn’t get more pathetic than this.
If pessimism is not creeping on little cat’s feet into Republicans’ thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is because it indicates they do not understand that sensible Americans, who pay scant attention to presidential politics at this point in the electoral cycle, must nevertheless be detecting vibrations of weirdness emanating from people associated with the party.
The most recent vibrator is Mike Huckabee..
When not showing righteous indignation toward unwed mothers, Huckabee finds himself pandering to the lowest form of human intelligence existing in the right’s growing fringe of loons – birthers. Asked by a talk radio wingnut about the President’s supposed unwillingness to show his birth certificate, Huckabee said:
“I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya. . . .”
Huckabee was given a golden opportunity to earn credibility points by dismissing the question as well as the entire birther movement as pure nonsense. Instead he opted to feed the beast with his “I would love to know more..” response. And for good measure he threw in an outright lie. Barack Obama did not grow up in Kenya. Five of his first eighteen years were spent in Indonesia. The rest were in Hawaii. As for Huckabee’s claim that he meant to say Indonesia, well, that’s been shown to be a lie too.
Huckabee joins Newt Gingrich in attempting to create a nefarious Obama/Kenyan connection. Here was the newt’s comment from a few months back.
“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”
Which led Will to write…
So the Republican winnowing process is far advanced. But the nominee may emerge much diminished by involvement in a process cluttered with careless, delusional, egomaniacal, spotlight-chasing candidates to whom the sensible American majority would never entrust a lemonade stand, much less nuclear weapons.
And that, folks, is your day’s message from a conservative icon. Good stuff.
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