Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:37:16 pm
For the past few years I've been watching Ron Paul's rise to power with a gut-wrenching sense of inevitability; despite his overtly racist newsletters, insane economic theories, and associations with extremists and conspiracy wackos of all kinds, from the John Birch Society to Alex Jones, his star just keeps rising ...

Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:55:10 am
Thanks to Brian Deagon of Investor's Business Daily, for including LGF in his list of the Top 10 Political Blogs! Here's Brian's list: This reporter asked research firms Hitwise, ComScore and Nielsen to rate 10 pre-selected blogs. The sites were subjectively chosen. The research firms' rankings were based on their objective ...

Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:16:55 am
The Republican Party's plan to ride back to power on the TeaBag Express seems to be running into a few roadblocks -- the Tea Party candidates themselves. In Kentucky, a volunteer for tea-party-backed Senate candidate Rand Paul was videotaped stepping on the head of a liberal protester. In Delaware and ...

Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:14:05 pm
A video from another angle has been released from the Rand Paul rally in Kentucky, showing MoveOn.org activist Lauren Valle trying to approach Paul several times. Here it is: [Video] Does this change the perception of the incident? In one way, it does; it makes it understandable that people tried to ...

Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:04:31 am
Yes, folks, the Rand Paul county coordinator who stomped on a MoveOn activist's head says he's the real victim, and he thinks he's owed an apology. Tim Profitt, the former Rand Paul volunteer who stepped on the head of a MoveOn.org-affiliated activist outside of a debate on Monday, said he ...

Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:08:04 pm
I don't want to believe the ugly comments at almost every right wing blog about the woman assaulted by Rand Paul supporters last night. Has the entire wingnut blogosphere turned into a pack of rabid animals? Jim "Dim" Hoft thinks Lauren Valle deserved to be stomped on the head, and he's ...

Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:01:16 pm
Curb Stomp Guy has been identified as Rand Paul's Bourbon County coordinator, Tim Profitt. Here's video of the assault (now all over YouTube): [Video] UPDATE at 10/26/10 12:08:22 pm: A photo of Profitt with Rand Paul (h/t Gus 802): UPDATE at 10/26/10 12:10:16 pm: The Rand Paul campaign has now issued a stronger statement on the ...

Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:25:23 am
Here's the official statement from the Rand Paul campaign on the violence perpetrated by his supporters -- and of course, he doesn't quite condemn it. "We understand that there was an altercation outside of the debate between supporters of both sides and that is incredibly unfortunate. Violence of any kind ...

Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:32:49 am
Rand Paul isn't just running away from the press and critics now; his supporters are beating and stomping them: Woman stomped outside Conway-Paul debate. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) -- Outside the Conway-Paul debate, a Rand Paul supporter pulled the woman's blonde wig off and stomped on her head. She was ...

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:41:50 am
I find it continually amazing to see the Republican candidates in this election openly advocating bizarre and extreme ideas like abolishing Social Security and the Department of Education. It seems to have become an article of faith on the right wing that all the social progress of the last century ...

Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:59:16 am
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's dueling rallies are shaping up to be truly massive. Sign-ups for the rally have been tallied on Facebook. Beyond the 290,000 who have so far signed on as definite attendees, 145,000 more have listed themselves as maybes. The site Rallymao.com has assembled a roster of the ...

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:09:26 pm
NPR's Terry Gross interviews historian Sean Wilentz about the resurgence of paranoid John Birch Society ideology on the right wing, led by the main promoter of JBS craziness: Glenn Beck: Drawing On 1950s Extremism? They don't allow embedding of the audio for this interview, but it's worth a listen. We've been ...

Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:09:13 am
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 ...

Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 11:48:03 am
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 ...

Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:57:53 am
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 ...

Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:01:24 am
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 ...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:56:25 pm
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 ...

Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:03:26 pm
John Avlon has a piece on the growing acceptance in the GOP of the cruelest and most extreme positions on abortion: The Palin abortion standard makes GOP inroads. Call it the Palin Standard, the new normal creeping into Republican abortion politics—opposition even in cases of rape and incest. When Sarah Palin ...

Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:35:52 am
In Louisville, Kentucky, for a Rand Paul fundraiser, Sarah "Mama Grizzly" Palin encounters reporters from the local media (including Joe Gerth, political writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal) -- and turns and runs away. It's utterly bizarre to see all these GOP big wheels doing this (Palin, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, Christine ...

Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:58:00 am
In the latest pathetic episode of the psycho preacher clown show, Terry Jones has given his opponent, Imam Rauf, two hours to let Jones know whether he's going to move the Cordoba House even farther away from Ground Zero. GAINESVILLE — The Florida pastor who had canceled the Quran-burning event ...

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:09:42 pm
Also coming to New York this week to try to capitalize on September 11, a "9/11 Truth" group: Truthers to mark 9/11 with NYC rallies, conspiracy theory conferences. Among the wackos scheduled to speak at this four-day festival of paranoia and delusion: Cindy Sheehan, Cynthia McKinney, Mike Gravel, George Galloway, Wayne ...

Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:24:08 am
In tried and true Paul family fashion, the Rand Paul campaign responded to the revelation that one of their staffers had been trolling Daily Kos by claiming that it was a double reverse conspiracy. Whenever Ron or Rand are caught doing something underhanded, this is how they respond. I posted yesterday ...

Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:15:57 pm
At Daily Kos, they've discovered a paid staffer for Rand Paul's campaign posing as a left-winger and posting deceptive comments about Paul's opponent Jack Conway: KY-Sen: Rand Paul staffer caught posing as a progressive at Daily Kos. It's a cost-effective strategy for an organization that isn't too concerned with little things ...

Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:20:56 am
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 ...

Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:50:34 am
Jan Brewer, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin -- representatives of the new breed of Republicans who refuse to answer any questions about their views, refuse to engage in debate with their opponents (and are pathetically bad on the rare occasions when they do), completely avoid the media, and just ...