Dissing your base Talk about stepping on your own message. A decisive win in the Illinois primary, the much coveted endorsement by former Florida governor Jeb Bush that was supposed to signal the end game of the GOP primary in which Republicans would finally rally around a single opponent for the hated Barack Obama, all were subsumed by a truthful …
Jesus revolutionized women’s religious role in early Judeo-Christian society
What you get when you mix oxytocin, Viagra, and misogyny This marks the fourth entry in my diary concerning the GOP War Against Women. The first post, Gays, Guns, God & Gynecology, was written on Feb 21, before the Great Limpbot Implosion that began Leap Day, Feb 29; as was my second entry, Fallout From GOP’s Attack On Women’s Health …
Hearing into women’s reproductive issues: What’s wrong with this picture? Last summer when the economy was still sputtering and deficit reduction was all the rage, the Rethugs believed they had the perfect campaign theme to run on—restoring the economy. That they were mainly responsible for its demise was hardly an insurmountable problem in their eyes. Counting on low information voters with …
The irrational hatred of President Obama is undermining the Office of the President itself.
“Are you not entertained?” Like professional comedians who will say anything for a laugh, no matter how outrageous, politicians like Newt Gingrich will say anything to invoke a sense of outrage. This is both the Newtster’s greatest political strength and greatest weakness. While appealing to the baser emotions of anger, fear, and resentment plays well with the Teabagger activists who dominate …
Willard’s karmic rats come home to roost After Willard Mitt Romney’s Super PAC, Restore Our Future, carpet bombed former GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich with millions of dollars of negative campaign ads in Iowa, Willard is getting a taste of its own medicine courtesy of Newt’s own newly formed Super PAC, Winning Our Future. Funded with a 5 million dollar check …
