Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:50:42 am
In the ever-changing GOP clown car of far right candidates, the leader in Iowa polling is now Crazy Uncle Ron Paul. Newt Gingrich's campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa.  He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each ...

Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:48:32 pm
If I didn't know about Ron Paul's far right and neo-Confederate connections, and his history of blatantly racist newsletters, and everything else about him, I'd probably be giving him kudos right now for telling the unvarnished truth about Michele Bachmann (and most of the rest of the GOP field too, ...

Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:02:18 pm
The media are now pretending that there was some actual conflict, but the Republican candidates obviously agree with each other on almost every issue. Except for Ron Paul, who consistently plays the Crazy Uncle. The only real "conflict" tonight came from the attacks on each other's past positions for not being ...

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Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:54:35 am
Perhaps we have become so numb to the political circus by now that we don't notice the extreme, but the Saturday November 19th GOP Presidential candidate Thanksgiving Family Forum (not really a "debate") in Iowa was more about religious identity than anything to do with Presidential responsibilities or the practice ...

Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:31:41 am
Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are complaining that CBS News deliberately snubbed them during last night's debate: The Bachmann campaign went so far as to release an email that they said spokeswoman Alice Stewart had “inadvertently received” from CBS earlier in the day. In the email string, CBS News’ political analyst ...

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:47:46 am
Starring in a pair of new films made by antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theorist James Jaeger: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Yesterday, filmmaker James Jaeger of the Jaeger Research Institute publicized the films SPOiLER: How A Third Party Could Win and Original Intent, which “exposes the historical march of Cultural Marxism.” ...

Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:58:37 am
According to the right wing blogosphere, President Barack Obama keeps sending signals to the Islamic world that he's weak, and that he encourages the spread of creeping shariah. He has a novel technique for telegraphing this weakness: systematically, relentlessly killing the leaders of Al Qaeda. SANA, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, the ...

Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:14:50 am
Ron Paul's "let 'em die" health plan wasn't the only appalling moment in last night's debate. Not by a long shot. Here we see the audience booing Ron Paul for saying "the whole Muslim world" was not responsible for 9/11. (Preceded by the usual "they hate our American exceptionalism" incantations from ...

Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:32:51 pm
A memorable moment from tonight's GOP debate: thunderous applause for Ron Paul's call to let people without private health insurance die.

Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:46:22 pm
If you believe the media stories about it, we're in for a real "slugfest" tonight at the CNN/Teabagger Republican Debate: Five things to watch for in CNN/Tea Party Republican debate. Round two of the Perry-Romney slugfest? It started in Wednesday's debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, ...

Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:48:59 pm
The latest Fox News poll contains bad news for Romney, Bachmann, and Palin. Rick Perry has the religious right solidly on his side, more than any GOP candidate in a long time. Perry receives the support of 26 percent of GOP primary voters in the new poll. That’s up from 13 ...

Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:06:33 pm
The libertarians are really distinguishing themselves this week with their comments on Hurricane Irene. First we had Ron Paul pining for that bygone year of 1900 when there was no FEMA and tens of thousands were left to rot where they died. Good times! And now we have Patrick Michaels (a senior ...

Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:37:45 am
The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1900, with winds up to 145 mph, was the deadliest in US history. Official reports put the death toll at about 8,000, but many believe the true number was much higher. So many people were killed that it was impossible to bury them ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 10:23:56 am
We've been noticing this disturbing development on the right wing for quite a while, and today the New York Times has a piece on the Republican Party's deranged attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota wants to padlock the E.P.A.’s doors, as does former Speaker Newt ...

Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:32:23 am
Following the Iowa straw poll, one of the climate change denying creationist Republican candidates dropped out this morning -- leaving only six other creationists and eight climate change deniers in the GOP race: Pawlenty Drops Out. The final straw poll results: [Item List]

Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 6:07:43 pm
The big winners of the Iowa straw poll: religious fanatic Michele Bachmann, followed closely in second place by religious fanatic "libertarian" Ron Paul. I'm shocked that Ron Paul's followers didn't succeed in stacking this poll; they must be slipping. I don't think Bachmann or Paul realize yet that Mitt Romney is ...

Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 4:57:36 pm
Eight Republicans -- yes, even Newt Gingrich and His Amazing Collapsing Campaign! -- will square off tonight in Ames, Iowa, so here's a thread for the occasion. The Kook Quotient will be soaring, because in addition to the other right wing candidates, Crazy Uncle Ron Paul will be present. I'm ...

Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:04:00 pm
The latest survey from Public Policy Polling has Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney running neck and neck: Bachmann continues to surge. Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll. 21% of Republican primary voters say she's ...

Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:28:32 pm
The first Republican candidate to sign the list of demands issued by Iowa's influential radical religious right group "The Family Leader" is, of course, Michele Bachmann: Update: Bachmann is first to sign Family Leader’s pro-marriage pledge. The pledge is entitled, “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage ...

Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:08:32 pm
Most of the GOP presidential contenders appeared at the annual National Right to Life convention today, to assure the religious fundamentalist base that the best way to create jobs is to make sure women don't have the right to choose an abortion. Magical thinking writ large, hyped by the highest ...

Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:43:26 am
During the last election, it became a running joke at LGF that Ron Paul's odd supporters would spam and skew and vote repeatedly in every Internet poll they could find, trying to boost the Crazy Uncle's apparent popularity. This measure of popularity is completely bogus, of course, because it's trivially easy ...

Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:52:02 am
In one of the most glaring examples of Republican Party cognitive dissonance, the GOP is positioning itself as the only true American friend of Israel -- but at the same time, moving more and more toward the pseudo-libertarian anti-Israel politics of Ron Paul and his son Rand, who strongly advocate ...

Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:56:04 pm
Chris Matthews interviews a very defensive crazy uncle, and ties him in knots over his extreme libertarian positions. Video

Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:21:05 pm
If nothing else, Ron Paul is certainly consistent, if by "consistent" you mean "fanatically dedicated to extreme right wing libertarian ideology:" Ron Paul Says He Wouldn't Have Ordered Bin Laden Raid. In an interview with Iowa radio station WHO, the likely GOP presidential candidate said "things could have been done ...