TagsTagsRepublican John Raese is running for the late Robert Byrd’s Senate seat in West Virginia, spewing anti-science nonsense like almost every other Republican candidate. Raese's Democratic opponent is Gov. Joe Manchin, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee has released an ad attacking Manchin, shot in Philadelphia using actors chosen for ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Right Wing, Stereotypes, West Virginia, John Raese
Before the Tea Party loons had their big Delaware primary victory with Christine O'Donnell, Republican incumbent Mike Castle was favored for an easy win. Then came the teabaggers; Castle was declared a despicable RINO. The anti-masturbation, anti-evolution religious fanatic candidate was in! The Tea Party's march to greatness was under way! They ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Religious Right
Jonathan Martin at Politico has a piece on the weird behavior of many candidates (mostly Republicans) in this election -- who seem to believe it's a winning strategy to hide from the press and the public. It’s mostly, but not entirely, a Republican phenomenon. In some cases, a tea-party-oriented candidate ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Ignorance
She didn't come from no monkey, she thinks you shouldn't be touching yourself, and she is not a witch. In fact, she's you. And that is even scarier. [Video]
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Advertisement
In a 2006 Delaware Senate primary debate, anti-wanking Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell boasted that she was "privy to" secret classified information about a Chinese plot to take over the United States. WASHINGTON — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, China, paranoia, Fear
Frank Rich makes some excellent points about Christine O'Donnell's value to the GOP good old boy network, cynically using the teabaggers to sleaze their way back into power: The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell. The more O’Donnell is vilified, the bigger the star she becomes, and the more she ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Bad Craziness, Religious Right, Christine O'Donnell, Tea Party
Raw Story picked up on my post about the Republican National Coalition For Life's appallingly large list of GOP candidates who support extreme anti-abortion positions (no exceptions for rape and incest). They counted the number of candidates who actually won their primaries and will stand for election, and came up ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Abortion, Women's Rights, Extremism, Bad Craziness, Religious Right
When the false claims about her education posted at LinkedIn were discovered, GOP anti-wanking candidate Christine O'Donnell said the information was posted by someone else. Unfortunately for O'Donnell's rather transparent attempt to cover up a lie with another lie, now another site has surfaced where the same claims were posted -- ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
Carl Paladino, the GOP's psycho candidate for Governor of New York, is in the news today for threatening a reporter. Sunday's Post featured a front-page story about Paladino's wife, Cathy, and his ex-lover, Suzanne Brady. It included an exclusive interview with Cathy Paladino. "You send another goon to my daughter's house ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Bad Craziness, New York, Carl Paladino, Racism, Threats
Matt Taibbi's piece on the Tea Party does an excellent job of documenting the real forces behind this far right populist movement -- corporate interests and Republican insiders: Tea & Crackers. Early in his campaign, Dr. Paul, the son of the uncompromising libertarian hero Ron Paul, denounced Medicare as "socialized ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found that 71% of Republicans are Tea Party supporters, which should come as no surprise. The Tea Party "movement" has been largely an astroturf operation from the very beginning, a way to legitimize the far right of the GOP. And it's worked, as ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism
Now Christine O'Donnell is claiming that the misleading information about her education was posted at LinkedIn by someone else. She doesn't know who. Just somebody who happened to know her education record well enough to embellish it. Wonder who it could have been? O'Donnell's statement, sent from the DC-area Shirley ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
Wow. Another false claim has been discovered on Christine O'Donnell's education resumé: Christine O'Donnell Lies About Attending Claremont Graduate University. A new report late tonight suggests O'Donnell did not attend Claremont Graduate University as she indicated. Gary Scott, a radio producer in Los Angeles and longtime political reporter and editor, uncovered ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
Today I discovered a link to the Republican National Coalition for Life PAC, where they rate GOP candidates on their anti-abortion purity, and my jaw is on the floor at how many of these candidates support the cruelest and most extreme anti-abortion positions -- forcing a woman to give birth ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Abortion, Women's Rights, Extremism, Bad Craziness
The GOP's anti-wanking, anti-evolution candidate in Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, has been caught in another "embellishment" of her education record; her bio claims she attended the University of Oxford, but as Greg Sargent details, the truth is she attended one course from an organization called the Phoenix Institute, that rented space ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Education
Sen. Jim DeMint, another of the GOP's religious fanatics, is now threatening to hold the US government hostage: Jim DeMint vows roadblock. South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint warned Monday evening that he would block all legislation that has not been cleared by his office in the final days of the ...
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Rand Paul is a member of the totally whacked-out Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group with an innocuous-sounding name that touts some really insane conspiracy theories: Rand Paul part of AAPS doctors’ group airing unusual views. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul belongs ...
Rand Paul, Kentucky, Ron Paul, Bad Craziness, Far Right, GOP, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Conspiracy Theories, Sharron Angle
Running for the late Robert Byrd's Senate seat in West Virginia, GOP nominee John Raese is yet another anti-science far right Republican candidate, spouting pseudo-scientific gobbledegook about volcanoes to argue that he has "zero trust" in human-caused global warming. Even as he joked that the tea party movement was "a ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Right Wing, GOP, Tea Party, Denial, Anti-Science
Would you be surprised to learn that the GOP's "Pledge to America" plays fast and loose with facts? Factcheck.org counts the ways: FactChecking ‘The Pledge’. Summary The Republican “Pledge to America,” released Sept. 23, contains some dubious factual claims: [Item List] For details on these and other examples please read on to the Analysis ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Pledge to America, Fact Checking
The "gay Republican" is a weird chimera, trying to carve out a place in a political party fiercely committed to denying them civil rights. I'd like to wish them good luck, but this seems like the very definition of "wasted effort." And Ann Coulter's speech at GOProud's "Homocon" event is a ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Homophobia, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Ann Coulter, GOProud
New York Republican House candidate Jim Russell has been denounced by his own party, after an ugly racist essay he wrote for a fringe white nationalist journal became public. A quote from Russell's essay: It has been demonstrated that finches raised by foster parents of a different species of finch ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Bad Craziness, New York, Racism, Jim Russell, Carl Paladino
LGF reader freetoken uploaded a better recording of the Bill Maher show, featuring Christine O'Donnell saying "evolution is a myth," and please note smear merchant Andrew Breitbart's amazingly crude joke. (If a leftist had made a joke like this one about the ten commandments, the wingnut blogs would be shrieking ...
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Creationism, Andrew Breitbart
Here's the GOP's new star, Christine O'Donnell, proudly flaunting her anti-science ignorance. Disgusting. [Video]
Republican Party, GOP, Extremism, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, Creationism
Yesterday we noted the Texas State Board of Education's latest obsession: a resolution to limit what textbooks can print about Islam, based on out of context selections from books that haven't been used for seven years. The Republican creationists and fanatics on the board have decided it's their job to ...
Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Rick Perry, Texas
I had to laugh at this CBS News headline about the GOP's new "Pledge to America" (hmm, sounds vaguely reminiscent of something): Are Social Conservatives Losing Their Voice in the GOP? I laughed because to me, the absence of a lot of social conservative language in this document looks like a ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Social Conservatives, Religious Right