TagsTagsAppearing on the "Politically Incorrect" show in 1998, anti-wanking GOP creationist Christine O'Donnell was asked by Eddie Izzard, "What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, 'do you have any Jewish people in your house?' and you do have them. That would ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell
Well, that didn't take long. After calling her a lunatic with serious ethical problems who can't possibly win, Karl Rove now genuflects to the mighty anti-wanking power of Christine O'Donnell. Pathetic beyond belief. [Video]
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Asked to comment on Newt Gingrich's statement that President Obama has a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" world view, RNC chairman Michael Steele defended Gingrich. KING: Former Speaker of the House, the man who is moving around as if he might run for president, said that the President of the United States has ...
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It's a right wing free-for-all! Rush Limbaugh goes nuclear on Karl Rove for noticing that Christine O'Donnell is, to use a technical term, nuts. Video
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At Salon, Justin Elliott found a 2003 article by anti-wanking creationist Christine O'Donnell in which she warned America's youth about the lurking threat of coed dorm rooms, leading inevitably, inexorably, to orgy rooms and menage a trois rooms (with any luck): O'Donnell warned of 'orgy rooms' in college dorms. Dorm ...
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At the annual Board of Directors meeting of the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) in Charleston, South Carolina, one of the sponsored events this year was titled "The Southern Experience:" How Republicans Party. Here's a photo of South Carolina Senate President Glenn McConnell, dressed up as a Confederate General and ...
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Good work, tea partiers! Republicans more than likely cost themselves a Senate seat last night. Chris Coons begins the general election in Delaware with a 50-34 lead over Christine O'Donnell. Mike Castle would have led Coons by a 45-35 margin.
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Any conservative who dares to criticize the nomination of Christine O'Donnell is getting smacked around and threatened with excommunication by the teabag base -- even Karl Rove, that RINO. Here's one of the dimmest of the wingnut bloggers, Dan Riehl, demanding that Karl Rove be suspended from Fox News and "investigated" ...
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We covered the Carl Paladino story at LGF when he was caught sending around emails full of overt racism, misogyny, and hard core pornography (including bestiality), last April: Tea Parties? Racism? No Way! Here’s a screenshot of a video he forwarded (now deleted from YouTube for terms of use violation), titled ...
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It will probably come as no surprise to you that in addition to all her other loony ideas, GOP candidate Christine O'Donnell is also a creationist -- yes, a hard core young earth creationist who thinks dinosaur fossils were planted by Satan to test our faith. A perfect representative of the ...
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And a racist, misogynistic, apparently psychotic freak will be the GOP's nominee for New York Governor. See: Carl Paladino's "Obama Inauguration Ceremony."
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Tonight, with the nomination of Christine O'Donnell, America is finally starting to get serious about confronting the awful scourge of self-abuse.
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Tea Party astroturfer Dick Armey says that if the GOP takes control of Congress in the mid-term election, they're going to fight hard to take away women's rights to safe, legal abortions. When asked Monday at a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters about the possibility of a truce on social issues ...
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And we have yet another Tea Party Republican with radical anti-choice beliefs: Ovide Lamontagne, New Hampshire GOP candidate for the US Senate. Lamontagne has stated that he is "pro-life" with no exceptions. "No exceptions" means he would force a woman to carry a baby to term even if it was ...
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The most influential conservative in America has come out on the side of John Boehner. Rush Limbaugh used his hit radio show Monday to defend House Republican Leader John Boehner against hits from the press and the White House. Limbaugh's backing came as a comfort to Boehner allies... ... because the ...
Think Progress did a comprehensive survey of Republican candidates for the US Senate and found that nearly all of them are anti-science deniers of global warming. What an incredibly sad picture of the Republican Party this paints. I'd like to see a similar survey of Republican politicians who favor teaching creationism ...
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Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Values Voter Summit, along with a full card of top GOP politicians and pundits, including Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Here's Fischer's latest: A huge Muslim problem: ...
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We have the official "WTF!" photo from today's TeaBagCon on the National Mall, courtesy of Dave Weigel. Maybe they're counter-protesters? UPDATE at 9/12/10 2:08:19 pm: These garments are for sale here: Zarinas.Com: Women's Clothing (Burqas). And Dave Weigel tells me they're not counter-protesters; apparently, they were a big hit, went to the ...
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The Tea Party astroturf group FreedomWorks is holding another 9/12 rally on the National Mall, but this year the attendance is an order of magnitude smaller: Tea Party's 9/12 Rally Looking Much, Much Smaller Than Last Year's. Evan McMorris-Santoro is live-tweeting this debacle. With fewer people, the kooks really stand out: ...
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Justin Carl Moose of Concord, North Carolina, has been arrested and charged in a plot to bomb a women’s health clinic. On his Facebook page, Moose described himself as the "Christian counterpart of Usama Bin Laden." CONCORD, NC (WBTV) - A Concord man accused of providing information on building explosive materials ...
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New Hampshire's GOP candidate for US Senate, Bill Binnie, has been a very bad Republican, and you know what that means: death threats. He's been under attack by the tribalist far right that now dominates his party, over his support for legal abortion rights. There's a disturbing amount of tacit and ...
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Ohio Republican House candidate Jim Renacci thinks civil rights is a "local issue:" ‘We Need To Get Our Federal Government Out Of The Way’. It's amazing to hear Republican candidates saying things like this, but it does reveal the modern GOP's agenda -- to rewind all the social progress of the ...
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It's the new GOP campaigning style: do everything possible to avoid being forced to defend your extreme positions. By dodging the media and opponents they can continue pandering to the far right base, while avoiding the risk of having those extreme positions become common knowledge. It's an implicit admission that ...
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