Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:29:45 am
At FrumForum, Noah Kristula-Green and Tim Mak ask the poignant question: Why is Pawlenty On Stage With These Crazy People? Their premise is that Tim Pawlenty is the only really electable candidate out of the extremist loons who participated in last night's GOP debate. Which is just ludicrous, of course, because Pawlenty's ...

Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:42:50 pm
A few days ago, US Senate Republican candidate Ron Johnson demonstrated once again the impenetrable ignorance and atavistic anti-science attitude that has utterly ruined the Republican Party, saying that any global warming can be explained away as "sunspots," and that CO2 is harmless because "it's sucked down by trees." Democrats, ...

Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:14:13 am
The latest really bad idea to move from the fringe to the Republican mainstream at light speed: repealing the "birthright citizenship" granted by the 14th amendment to the US Constitution. That's right -- the people who publicly make a fetish out of the Constitution, declaring their unconditional love for every word ...

Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:02:42 am
Recently we’ve had several front page posts about Arthur Robinson, the GOP mutant candidate for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, and his incredibly strange views on … well, everything. In addition, LGF reader freetoken put together an excellent Page on Robinson’s Christian Dominionist connections. But it gets worse: Oregon GOP Congressional Candidate ...

Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:00:32 pm
The 2010 Texas Republican Party platform is in the news, as people notice that it’s an unvarnished far right document advocating atavistic policies across the board; creationism, climate change denial, historical revisionism aimed at erasing the separation of church and state, etc., ad nauseam. But some of the worst vitriol in ...

Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:46:22 pm
Dim bulb wingnut blogger Dan Riehl is increasingly specializing in some of the most vile, ugly commentary on the right; it’s a crowded field, but with posts like this one he manages to stand out: Riehl World View: Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife? The excuse will be that it’s ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:08:17 am
The Hatewatch blog has a report on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), probably the most extreme right wing version of the event ever held, featuring creationists, Birthers, nativists, militias, Glenn Beck, the re-ascendant wackos of the John Birch Society — and many top Republican politicians: Conspiracy Central: Beck, ...