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.
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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.
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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.
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- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
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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...
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I agree with 94.7 percent of what Meghan McCain says here.
On Tom Tancredo’s ugly remarks at the Tea Party convention calling for literacy tests for voters and disparaging those who voted for “Barack Hussein Obama”…
“It’s innate racism, and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement,” McCain retorted on The View.
“I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not 65 year old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English,” McCain added.
McCain, a self-described “progressive Republican,” criticized Palin’s assertion that President Obama could get himself re-elected to a second term if he launched a war against Iran.
“You should never go to war unless its the absolute last circumstance,” McCain said.
As for Palin’s defense of Rush Limbaugh for using the word “retard” after calling for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s resignation over the same word last week, McCain said it was a symbol of “exactly what is wrong with politics today.
“We can’t placate and say Democrats can say one thing and Republicans can say another thing,” she said.
McCain added that the rhetoric coming from the Tea Party movement and from Republicans like Palin “will continue to turn off young voters, and anybody who says different is smoking something.”
My only dispute with Meghan here is the bit about revolutions and 65 year-olds. There is no reason that anyone who wishes change cannot protest, yell and make their voices heard, regardless of age. But on Tancredo, Palin, Limbaugh and Republicans, McCain is bang on.
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How I took Megan’s comment about 65 year olds was that it takes the energy of young people to actually bring about the change. Every week I see the parade of seniors marching in front of city hall and the cathedral to end the war in Iraq (and now Afghanistan) or the green seniors who hand out pamphlets. I even go to meetings where we whine about how will we make the social changes we have worked our whole lives for without the young people to carry it forward. Then we were all a little blindsided by the social network that sprang up first for Howard Dean then for Obama. It takes the imagination and fresh vision of young people to shift the paradigm. The critical mass to make a revolution has to rely on that army of young people. I can’t think of a single successful one that moved a mountain without them.
I think Megan McCain (who has blocked me on Twitter for having the temerity to remind her of her father’s moronic “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” little song) is a banal mediocrity with very little intellectual weight, but lots of gay friends and who fortunately is not a racist. That being said, revolutions do tend to begin in Universities, and are generally peopled by the young. I can think of a couple of things I would have been willing to risk my freedom and my life for when I was younger, none now that I’m a husband and have an infant at home. That being said, most of the figures from the Civil Rights movement didn’t go to college and had families. So while her blanket statement was wrong, I think we can all accept that the less you have to lose, the braver you are in fighting the establishment you seek to defeat.
Mario,
Great post… Dont completely agree with Meghan on lots of stuff.
…revolutions start with young people, not 65 year old people
My thought is revolutions start with SMART people…
I know of situations where once progressive leaning parents have now followed their 20 something children into the Tea Party movement. Also, having participated in my fair share of rallies, marches, and other progressive causes, it is my experience that it is the younger people who were the anti what ever, whether it was gay rights, health care reform, taunting those of us against the war.
perhaps it is just in my area of the country, but the farther outside of the main metropolitan area one gets, the ah, more frightening it becomes for people such as myself who are progressive, open minded, supporting equality for ALL. I mean, real confederate flag waving, gun toting, gay or immigrant bashing, angry people. And they’re far from being senior citizens.
I’m afraid that Megan is giving young people credit that they do not deserve.
How I took Megan’s comment about 65 year olds was that it takes the energy of young people to actually bring about the change. Every week I see the parade of seniors marching in front of city hall and the cathedral to end the war in Iraq (and now Afghanistan) or the green seniors who hand out pamphlets. I even go to meetings where we whine about how will we make the social changes we have worked our whole lives for without the young people to carry it forward. Then we were all a little blindsided by the social network that sprang up first for Howard Dean then for Obama. It takes the imagination and fresh vision of young people to shift the paradigm. The critical mass to make a revolution has to rely on that army of young people. I can’t think of a single successful one that moved a mountain without them.
@Julia – How so?
@Sandi – Good point.
I think Megan McCain (who has blocked me on Twitter for having the temerity to remind her of her father’s moronic “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” little song) is a banal mediocrity with very little intellectual weight, but lots of gay friends and who fortunately is not a racist. That being said, revolutions do tend to begin in Universities, and are generally peopled by the young. I can think of a couple of things I would have been willing to risk my freedom and my life for when I was younger, none now that I’m a husband and have an infant at home. That being said, most of the figures from the Civil Rights movement didn’t go to college and had families. So while her blanket statement was wrong, I think we can all accept that the less you have to lose, the braver you are in fighting the establishment you seek to defeat.
There are a fair number of younger people in that wretched Tea Party movement, a sizable number of 20 somethings.
Mario,
Great post… Dont completely agree with Meghan on lots of stuff.
…revolutions start with young people, not 65 year old people
My thought is revolutions start with SMART people…
I know of situations where once progressive leaning parents have now followed their 20 something children into the Tea Party movement. Also, having participated in my fair share of rallies, marches, and other progressive causes, it is my experience that it is the younger people who were the anti what ever, whether it was gay rights, health care reform, taunting those of us against the war.
perhaps it is just in my area of the country, but the farther outside of the main metropolitan area one gets, the ah, more frightening it becomes for people such as myself who are progressive, open minded, supporting equality for ALL. I mean, real confederate flag waving, gun toting, gay or immigrant bashing, angry people. And they’re far from being senior citizens.