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• ABC Republican Debate

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: Right Wing Propaganda, Power Games, Gop Presidential Candidates, Gop Presidential Debate, Political Expediency, Embracing Wingnuttia, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gop Wedge Issues, John Mccain, 2008, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rudy Giuliani, Politics

  was the full panoply of GOP wingnuttia and delusional posturing on abortion, immigration, and the War in Iraq. It was truly not worth watching except that the applause of partisans cheering for their guy was totally unexpected. The buzz being generated on the right by Ron Paul is interesting. First, he’s foresquare against the

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• Rudy’s Imperious Whore

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:24 pm

  Tags: Gop Presidential Debate, Judith Giuliani, The Next First Lady, Political Expediency, Family Values Hypocrisy, Gop Presidential Candidates, Power Games, Courtesan, 2008, Rudy Giuliani, Sex Scandal, Gold Digger, Politics

  This Vanity Fair profile of Judi Giuliani, Rudy’s whore, is so hilarious that I just had to share it. I hollered, y’all.

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• Giuliani’s daughter supports Obama

  Published: August 7, 2007, 8:55 am

  Tags: Obama For President, Gop Presidential Candidates, Caroline Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama, 2008, Family Dysfunction, Politics

  Photo by Kiino Villand is not of Caroline Giuliani, just used for illustrative purposes Hat Tip: From NBC’s Mark Murray, First Read Is Giuliani’s daughter, Caroline, supporting Obama? From Slate: “According to the 17-year-old Caroline Giuliani’s Facebook profile, she’s supporting Barack Obama. On her profile, she

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• Giuliani’s Whore does damage control

  Published: August 8, 2007, 10:18 pm

  Tags: Gop Presidential Candidates, Power Games, Judith Giuliani, Family Values Hypocrisy, Homewrecking Whore, Gop Culture Of Corruption, Gold Digger, New York Times, 2008, Family Dysfunction, Media Criticism, Rudy Giuliani, Politics

  The New York Times, in further proof that it is nothing more than an establishment mouthpiece, has done what amounts to a fluff piece with a light treatment of Judi Giuliani’s homewrecking.

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• GOP Debate Doings

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Gop Presidential Candidates

  from: It's good when the candidates mix it up and actually address what one another are saying, and Brownback generally seems lost in the crowd during these debates, and from a tactical perspective he ought to be throwing more punches. (Or getting out of the race entirely.) But - but - what Brownback did, in his non-response to Paul, was

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• Gingrich calls Petraeus's report "wholly inadequate", eyes campaign

  Published: September 16, 2007, 4:15 am

  Tags: Newt Gingrich, Gop Presidential Candidates

  Newt is exactly what the GOP needs in this presidential campaign. It's just not crazy enough or far-right enough nor has it properly alienated enough people so it's about time they find a serious divider who can push the party over the edge and into a ravine. With all of the leading candidates doing their best to talk about the successful

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• Top GOP Candidates blow off debate on minority issues

  Published: September 28, 2007, 8:46 am

  Tags: Gop Presidential Candidates

  each of the top Republican candidates said everything. Well, not quite everything. Money was more important than minority issues:As the candidates debated for 90 minutes on PBS, those who didn't were scattered around the country.Thompson had three fundraising events in Tennessee, his home state. Romney was in California, wrapping up the day

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• Following Bush, GOP Presidential Candidates hate kids, too

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: George Bush, Schip, Gop Presidential Candidates

  Bush makes decisions for the GOP. And, he's got the Republican candidates following right behind him -- even on the really stupid political decisions. Giuliani, Thompson, McCain and Romney think Bush was right to veto health care for kids: The four leading Republican presidential candidates have aligned themselves with President Bush's veto on

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• Bartlett flip-flops after trashing GOP Presidential candidates

  Published: October 10, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: Gop Presidential Candidates, Dan Bartlett

  Dan Bartlett trashed the GOP presidential candidates. It was the first time we've seen anything resembling clarity from a Bush staffer. And, Bartlett was always one of the worst of the Bush team's liars:One of President Bush's closest advisers has a brutally candid analysis of the Republican nomination battle: Fred Thompson is the

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• The Republican economic revolution in action

  Published: October 12, 2007, 4:33 am

  Tags: Housing, Bush Economy, Gop Presidential Candidates

  is what McCain and the other GOP candidates think represents a booming economy. If you are unable to recognize a problem - and Americans definitely see problems with the economy - how are you supposed to fix it? Could this group of nitwits be any more removed from the concerns of the American middle class? They just yuck it up, talking about

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• The Republican economic machine works

  Published: October 12, 2007, 11:02 am

  Tags: Bush Economy, Gop Presidential Candidates

  For some, at least. Mission Accomplished.The richest one percent of Americans earned a postwar record of 21.2 percent of all income in 2005, up from 19 percent a year earlier, reflecting a widening income disparity among different classes in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing new Internal Revenue Service data.The data showed

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• Foreign buyers running from US

  Published: October 17, 2007, 5:05 am

  Tags: Bush Economy, Gop Presidential Candidates

  presidential candidates can spin it however they like and perhaps their supporters are too thick to look around and see the truth, but the rest of the world is quickly losing faith in the US economy. In August, foreign investors unloaded $163 billion of US securities. It is no wonder that since the world started this most recent round

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• The Haters convene this weekend at the Values Voters Summit to hear from GOP candidates

  Published: October 19, 2007, 8:58 am

  Tags: Religious Right, Gop Presidential Candidates

  in the city. All the GOP presidential candidates are going to be here to kiss the butts of the religious right. The religious right types aren't so enamored with the GOP candidates as the Washington Post reminds us: For months, Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and John McCain have courted evangelical

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• Looking more like the right-wingers don't love their choices for Prez.

  Published: October 19, 2007, 4:09 pm

  Tags: Religious Right, Gop Presidential Candidates

  of affection brewing for the GOP candidates today at the right wing hatefest:Religious and cultural conservatives, a political force skeptical of the leading Republican presidential candidates, are caught in a tug of war between pragmatism and ideology."My head and my heart are fighting with each other," said Phil Burress, an Ohioan who has

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• Tom Purcell and the fruits of anti-tax extremism.

  Published: November 24, 2007, 10:06 am

  Tags: Tom Purcell, Gop, Presidential Candidates, Ronald Reagan, 1960s, Segregation, Watergate, Iran Contra, George W Bush, Franklin Roosevelt

  Tom Purcell bills himself as a humorist. Yet there is nothing funny about his brand of anti-tax extremism as he wraps himself around the American flag for the Thanksgiving holiday. What we have learned from the tragic years of the Bush administration

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