Four loser also ran Republicans held a woeful exercise in failed policies that could be called a debate where each of the candidates promised to pursue policies that will destroy the country during the first Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate.
Huckabee and Christie have been pushed to the undercard debate. George Pataki and Lindsey Graham have been removed from the next debate.
Sanders wants to overhaul federal marijuana policy and open the door for states to legalize marijuana without federal interference.
Four Republican candidates who are polling next to nothing got together for a debate that demonstrated that the biggest loser was the American people who will pay the price with their healthcare and jobs if any of these Republicans win the White House.
Ted Cruz picked up the endorsement of notorious bigot Sandy Rios, wowed the haters at a Texas megachurch, and won the Tea Party caucus in NC
Ben Carson has shown himself to be appallingly insensitive, and if his values are more equal than ours, we are all in a lot of trouble
The GOP platform for 2016 has become about defending the indefensible and Gaffney praised the “wonderful” work of a leading white nationalist
Pope Francis’ speech sounded more like Socialist Bernie Sanders than self-righteous modern day pharisee Mike Huckabee.
The chosen candidate of the Koch brothers, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), has fallen to dead last at less than 1% support in a new Republican poll.
Bill Maher hit Republicans right in between the eyes with reality by debunking 11 predictions that the Republican Party got wrong in 100 seconds.
The value of literacy – not only reading but comprehension – has never been better underlined by the mad tirade of conservative Ed Straker
Mike Huckabee has amply demonstrated has lack of presidential bona fides over the span of two debates and appalling comments in between
The first part of CNN’s Republican debate was an embarrassment that was televised around the world. The American people deserve an apology for this showcase of Republican crazy.
Days after Scott Walker announced his new plan to wage war against unions, a new WBUR poll of New Hampshire shows Walker sinking to 1% support.
Walker abruptly cancelled his keynote speech in a desperate attempt to resuscitate his dying presidential campaign.
Religious nuts hate being mocked and laughed at when they say catastrophically stupid things, but that’s freedom of speech, not persecution
We have been hearing for a long time that the Religious Right is dead; demographics or not, I’ll believe it when I see it lying in the road
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
Move over Boys: An NBC News Poll has Carly Fiorina not only fourth in line after Trump, but winner over Trump of the GOP debates
The Fox News “Happy Hour Debate” featured seven candidates who spent most of the hour dodging questions and reminding viewers why they each have no chance of being elected president.
A candidate who stumbles in the field of lesser candidates will have the dubious distinction of losing on a stage full of losers.
People for the American Way reports that yesterday, Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins said that “legal immigration is a big problem” because “people that have come in from Muslim Countries” may “threaten our country from within.” Listen courtesy of Right Wing Watch: Apparently, Perkins thinks the military can’t protect us because he also claimed that…
Fox News announced the ten Republicans who will be participating in the network’s first debate, and the hypocrisy of the entire situation was illustrated by the fact that 30% of the GOP field used to work at Fox News.
Several of the leading GOP candidates are planning to attend a Koch-sponsored event in Southern California to court billionaire donors.
Trump doesn’t seem impressed by the Religious Right and has shown no signs that he feels the need to impress them, or even that they matter
Liberals and independents must avoid the temptation, like Republicans, to dump reality when we don’t find it lining up with our preconceptions
You remember how riled up they got when President Obama said, “You didn’t build that”? Well, Obama was wrong this once: they did build that.
Who are the real Republicans? The guys who want to kick immigrants out, or the guy who wants to insult them and then kick them out?
A quick look around at the mass Republican implosion on the Sunday shows provided ample evidence that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party.
The protesters gathered outside of Chris Christie’s presidential campaign launch demonstrated more enthusiasm than the rest of the country has for the New Jersey governor’s presidential candidacy.
Huckabee complained that “some cowardly politicians will wave the white flag,” but we can’t even stop them from waving the Confederate flag
In a refreshingly honest op-ed piece, Carson pulled no punches in calling the South Carolina church massacre a racist act.
Add Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) to the list, as it’s revealed that he took thousands from the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC).
The Council of Conservative Citizens says blacks are “the laziest, stupidest and most criminally-inclined race in the history of the world”
I’m beginning to think the Republican Clown Car of Candidates is a deliberate campaign strategy that is somehow beyond the comprehension of most regular-thinking mortals.
Far from even admitting black people were killed because they were black, conservatives didn’t even want to admit the killer was white
Conservatives wasted no time trying to dismiss racism as a factor in the shooting instead calling it an attack on Christianity.
This week, Friday Fox Follies has been thinking about the golden days of Yellow Journalism when newspapers took circulation wars to new heights with lurid stories. Proving only the technology has changed, Jim Bob, Michelle Duggar Open Up to Megyn Kelly About Their Son Josh Molesting His Sisters is fishing for ratings, as opposed to any truth.
The hypocrisy is stunning. Video has surfaced of child molester Josh Duggar’s biggest political defender, Mike Huckabee, fearmongering over children sharing a public restroom with transgendered people.
A PPP poll finds Hillary Clinton leading Jeb Bush 49-38 in Pennsylvania.
Rubio talks about being globally competitive, but does hating gays more than Putin’s Russia make us globally competitive, too?
A new study has found that Fox News is hurting the Republican Party by brainwashing millions of angry conservatives with misinformation.
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them
A bunch of Republican real and presumed presidential primary candidates descended on Greenville, South Carolina, Saturday. The event was the “South Carolina Freedom Summit.”
The upcoming SCOTUS marriage equality ruling is just another opportunity for Republicans to challenge the constitutionality of the Consitution
2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.
The Palmetto state appears to be an imperative stopover for anybody who has even remotely thought about entering the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
President Obama came out swinging and pulled no punches while taking out Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, and devoted an entire segment to the Koch Brothers during his White House Correspondents’ Dinner remarks.
Jeb Bush has dipped to 4th place in a recent poll, and he also seems to be losing out to other candidates on the fundraising front.
Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa
The hapless GOP needs somebody of Hillary’s stature for 2016, but all they have is a cast of nobodies with no ideas
Crass ignorance is enshrined in the Iowa Calendar as Family Leader invites GOP presidential hopefuls to spew to the delight of the base
The latest indication that Republicans will enjoin the Catholic bishops’ and religious right’s war against the Constitution, was disgraced former speaker of the house Tom Delay who said unapologetically that, “gays undermine his religious liberty.”
The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana
Since the RFRA was revised, the Religious Right has gone full-tilt crazy with threats to “rise up” against their left-wing oppressors
Republican presidential contenders are lining up to defend Indiana’s discriminatory “religious freedom” law.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) launched his 2016 presidential campaign by announcing to the world that God wants a massive tax cut for the rich, and for tens of millions of Americans to lose their access to healthcare.
Several prominent GOP presidential hopefuls rushed to support the ill-considered Republican Senate letter, addressed to Iran’s leaders.
Gov. Scott Walker demonstrated that he can’t even handle an interview on Fox News Sunday by dodging a question about whether or not he would send U.S. ground troops to combat ISIS.
Donald Trump can’t figure out why Jews support Obama. That is because there is no room for Jews in conservative “Murica.”
Hillary Clinton has large leads over the field of GOP contenders in three key swing states.
It is time that the left started taking this election seriously, along with Romney and Jeb Bush and the rest, even those we view as stupid, misogynist, and out of touch wing nuts
This week it was revealed that the third ranking Republican in the House of Representatives is guilty of pandering to a white supremacist extremist organization founded by former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
These men want to make 2015 about them, and Dems should be more than happy to grant their wish given the GOP desire to forget George W. Bush
Pope Francis plans to issue an edict on climate change in 2015.
CNN is reporting that the GOP moves early to court conservative Christians. We are told that, “The first votes of the 2016 campaign won’t be cast for another year but there’s already a race well underway: The Christian primary.” Republicans are actively courting white evangelical and born again Christian voters, knowing they will be crucial…
In examining the GOP’s wild accusations of Obama “lawlessness,” CNN declines to go beyond GOP talking points to the facts themselves
This monumental victory for North Carolina concluded a historic week nationwide for marriage equality. Ten states in the past week alone have now been added to the list of states where gay marriage is recognized, bringing the total number of states up to 29.
The Republican clown car is gassed up and ready to crash and burn in 2016 as Ted Cruz will be running for president.
According to the Religious Right, Islam is the enemy, and ISIL, or ISIS as it is often called, is a manifestation of all the hate and intolerance inherent in the world’s second largest religion. When President Obama says that ISIL is not Islam, the Religious Right quakes in outrage. Islam is the enemy! Sarah Palin…
How do you say winning? If you’re a conservative, you pick the driver of a very unpopular even, the government shutdown, as your next presidential pick because you enjoy losing badly.
Would-be martyr Ted Cruz will join pretend moderate Rand Paul and Bobby “Rooting for Obama to fail isn’t treason” Jindal in vying for the hate vote in 2014
Republican foreign policy is a tortured and terrifying admixture of religious dogmatism, political ideology, and corporate thirst for profit
A USA Today/Suffolk University Poll suggests that the GOP is willing to settle for 2012 loser Mitt Romney in 2016
House Republicans have particularly targeted poor white people in Southern red states with Draconian budget cuts to social programs including food stamps, housing assistance, and healthcare.
In fact, there is a desire among many extreme conservatives to hold a new Constitutional Convention to craft a new document that adheres strictly to their vision of a nation the Founding Fathers never intended.
Hatred is as dangerous a contagion as extremist Christianity, and despite same-sex marriage bans being ruled unconstitutional across the nation, the National Organization for Marriage is behaving like a mortally wounded and cornered wild beast.
Jesus said to love. They hate. Jesus said to turn the other cheek. They attack. Jesus said to pray in private. they pray publicly. Jesus said to forgive. They plot revenge. Jesus loved the poor. They worship Kochs.
Roanoke County Supervisor Al Bedrosian says, “The freedom of religion doesn’t mean that every religion has to be heard.”
According to Bob Vander Plaats, “You cannot run away from the heart of God and expect God to bless the country.”
Sure, he won. Kudos to Rand. But the thing is, even among Republicans, he took only 26 percent of the vote compared to Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s 14 percent.
Republicans have made interfering in business a regular practice when it suits their agenda, and over the past five years the GOP made regulating women’s lives one of its primary objectives.
Clearly, it’s time for the Republican establishment to start asking themselves, “Where are we going to find a sane candidate?” (or at least sane-seeming, as 2012-s misadventure with Mitt Romney demonstrates).
Cruz driveled the sort of pabulum intellectually malnourished aberrochristians at places like ironically-named Liberty University love to hear
Bill Maher had strong words for Democrats as he urged the party to stand their ground, and stop apologizing for Obamacare.
Reince Priebus pointed out that the party has planned changes that will greatly reduce the number of primary debates as well as move the Republican National Convention up earlier in the year.
There is some division among Republicans who cannot quite decide if they want to fight Vladimir Putin or fornicate with the Russian, but one thing is clear; conservatives think he is a “real leader” and lust for a Republican president like Putin.
CPAC was a triumph of “red state principles,” which are a combination of unbridled arrogance, limitless stupidity, and irrational hatred of humankind, with a whole lotta dishonesty mixed in
This is what they think America wants, and this is what they are going to give America. Really, I’d rather by a broken ant farm full of fire ants.
Few states are as friendly to Tea Party candidates as Texas, but the Tea Party may very well come up short on Tuesday in the Republican primaries.
The presumed front runners of late 2013 (Democrats: Hillary Clinton, Republicans: Chris Christie) have experienced a seismic shift on the right side of the political spectrum.
It’s been difficult to ignore the Republican Party’s insistence, subsequent to its November 2012 shellacking at the national ballot box, that it offers modern appeal to female voters.
Just last month, before the entire Bridgegate scandal unraveled, Christie trailed Hillary Clinton by only three points, 48-45. In this latest poll, Clinton has widened the gap to thirteen points, 50-37.
Red state Obama haters think they are punishing the president by voting Republican, but their only accomplishment is creating hunger for their own children, grandchildren, mothers, and fathers.
Democrats beat the Republican to VitteroforGovernor.com, so if he’s really planning on running for Governor of Louisiana, he’s got a Google problem.
The tea party is the intersection of cognitive dissonance and reality. It’s certain to become a reality show. Oh wait – it already is.
Right wing Christians define their right to practice religion as forcing compliance of their beliefs on the rest of the population, and the religious right is counting on the judiciary to achieve their goals.
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
One of Jesus Christ’s commands to his followers was to spread the good news of the kingdom of god by convincing them he was the Messiah, but that is not the intent of the event Bush is promoting.
Fortunately for Virginians who embrace the Constitution’s guarantee of separation of church and state, freedom of speech, and equal rights, attorney general Ken Cuccinelli was defeated.
