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 ...
“…what Peter King said, what Pete Hoekstra said—I mean there is no room for racial profiling in this country. Every study that I have seen—and I’m a former prosecutor too—every study I have seen has shown that it’s far more effective to follow what it is that people do rather than what they look like. And if we think about the broad picture now—let me see if we get this right. If we’re going to racially profile, we racially profile everybody across the Middle East. Now we find that this young 23 year old man from Nigeria—most of Nigeria is Christian by the way—so I guess what we’re going to have to do is include all of the people of Africa. But now let’s contemplate al Qaeda in the Philippines, so now we have to include people in Southeast Asia, so now we have about four billion people.”
“Look, I think when people make an argument for racial profiling they’re either lazy, they’re either arrogant, or frankly they’re racist. This is a foolish idea and the worst part of it all is that what we’re going to do is alienate about 1.5 billion Muslims. We desperately need these people on our side. If we go down that path we’re in a very, very serious problem.”
The system failed. Period. Investigate, find where the mistakes were made and fix them. What’s with the panic and hyperbole from conservatives? Is every incident concerning Muslims going to be a call for spreading racism and hatred?
Let’s hope that a leader soon emerges from the right with the intelligence and character to instill some calm and reason within the current and ridiculous version of the Republican party. They can’t get more divisive and destructive than they’ve been.
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What’s with the panic and hyperbole from conservatives? I’ll tell you what’s with that – they are desperate for something bad to happen to our country because they believe it will benefit them politically.
The GOP and people like Dick Cheney are the real terrorists. Why won’t they just go away?
Someone recently said that all Muslims are not terrorists but 100% of terrorists are Muslim. That’s a lie. The selective memory of the right has forgotten Timothy McVeigh, Dr Tiller’s killer & the Republicans praying for Obama’s death, to name a few. “The Family” who supported the execution of gay people in Uganda also have blood on their hands. They aren’t Muslim are they?
actually what he said was 100% of Islamic extremists are Muslim terrorists, its like saying that 100% of christian fundamentalists are fundamentalist terrorists.
it was not a well thought out remark.
@Anomaly100 and defolts – This is from The Examiner:
“To support his argument [Rep. Peter] King stated that ’100 percent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslim, and that is our main enemy today.’ While no one would dispute King’s assertion that 100% of Islamic terrorist are Muslim (which is akin to saying 100% of right-terrorists are conservative) many would dispute his contention that Islamic terrorists are our ‘main’ enemy today.”
It is very easy to come away with an entirely different interpretation of what someone has said if they are misquoted. I don’t think you can be Islamic and not be Muslim. Based on that presumption, among the group of Islamic people who are terrorists, they would all have to be Muslim.
What’s with the panic and hyperbole from conservatives? I’ll tell you what’s with that – they are desperate for something bad to happen to our country because they believe it will benefit them politically.
The GOP and people like Dick Cheney are the real terrorists. Why won’t they just go away?
Someone recently said that all Muslims are not terrorists but 100% of terrorists are Muslim. That’s a lie. The selective memory of the right has forgotten Timothy McVeigh, Dr Tiller’s killer & the Republicans praying for Obama’s death, to name a few. “The Family” who supported the execution of gay people in Uganda also have blood on their hands. They aren’t Muslim are they?
actually what he said was 100% of Islamic extremists are Muslim terrorists, its like saying that 100% of christian fundamentalists are fundamentalist terrorists.
it was not a well thought out remark.
@Anomaly100 and defolts – This is from The Examiner:
“To support his argument [Rep. Peter] King stated that ’100 percent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslim, and that is our main enemy today.’ While no one would dispute King’s assertion that 100% of Islamic terrorist are Muslim (which is akin to saying 100% of right-terrorists are conservative) many would dispute his contention that Islamic terrorists are our ‘main’ enemy today.”
It is very easy to come away with an entirely different interpretation of what someone has said if they are misquoted. I don’t think you can be Islamic and not be Muslim. Based on that presumption, among the group of Islamic people who are terrorists, they would all have to be Muslim.