The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
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 ...
It’s tough to be a Latino Republican – you can’t endorse hating yourself, but you can’t really reject it either.
And Republicans are not helping themselves by running fruitcakes in place of serious candidates.
A Republican state house candidate from northern Florida is standing by her proposal to build internment camps for undocumented immigrants that would “collect enough illegal aliens until you have enough to ship them back.”
Marg Baker, who’s one of three GOP candidates running for the nomination for Florida’s 48th district, made the announcement earlier this month at a meeting of the 9-12 Project, Glenn Beck’s political activist group.
“We can follow what happened back in the ’40s or ’50s [when] I was just a little girl in Miami and they built camps for the people that snuck into the country,” Baker said.
“Because they were illegal, they put them in the camps and they shipped them back,” Baker said, to applause.
Her pronouncement “stunned” the district’s Republican incumbent, Peter Nehr.
It gets more bizarre by the day. The election of Barack Obama now has every xenophobic nitwit who ever dreamed of being a politician crawling out from beneath their rocks and running as Republicans. There was a time when radical ideas like Baker’s were only mentioned to friends and family. Now they’re shouted from podiums and people applaud. Frightening.
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It’s pretty tough to have a dialog with someone who sets up strawmen.
Definition of a Strawman Argument: To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar yet weaker proposition (the “straw man”), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
build internment camps…. yet another example of the Right wanting to move this country backward, refusing to learn from history and inflaming racial divides…
C’mon Tommy, I was quite clear. You started your comment with a false assumption and then proceeded to criticize me on that assumption as if it was true. Typical strawman tactic and I have no way to respond except to point it out to you.
“…this thought from blogger Armando Llorens is undoubtedly true.
It’s tough to be a Latino Republican – you can’t endorse hating yourself, but you can’t really reject it either.”
It sounds to me like he’s saying that if you’re a republican, you must hate Latinos. Am I missing something? I’m a little hungover this morning, so when you explain it, please write slowly.
how can you possibly think that this one individual speaking about himself and his situation translates to a truth for the whole Latino population? s l o w e n o u g h f o r
y o u ?
So, is your premise that ALL republicans hate ALL Latinos? Pretty tough to have a dialog with someone when you start from that position.
@Tommy.
It’s pretty tough to have a dialog with someone who sets up strawmen.
Definition of a Strawman Argument: To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar yet weaker proposition (the “straw man”), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
No, not ALL Republicans hate ALL Latinos.
build internment camps…. yet another example of the Right wanting to move this country backward, refusing to learn from history and inflaming racial divides…
Mario – Huhh?
C’mon Tommy, I was quite clear. You started your comment with a false assumption and then proceeded to criticize me on that assumption as if it was true. Typical strawman tactic and I have no way to respond except to point it out to you.
“…this thought from blogger Armando Llorens is undoubtedly true.
It’s tough to be a Latino Republican – you can’t endorse hating yourself, but you can’t really reject it either.”
It sounds to me like he’s saying that if you’re a republican, you must hate Latinos. Am I missing something? I’m a little hungover this morning, so when you explain it, please write slowly.
@Tommy,
how can you possibly think that this one individual speaking about himself and his situation translates to a truth for the whole Latino population? s l o w e n o u g h f o r
y o u ?