Some findings from a Pew Research survey, which show that like stories related to Benghazi, most of the public (including Republicans) isn’t following reports on the two other scandals dogging the Obama administration:
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Filed under News | Comment (0)With the run-off election for the Republican nomination coming up, Republicans in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District seem eager to deliver an early Christmas present to Democrats.
His name is Mark Sanford:
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Voters here have heard all the reasons to keep former Gov. Mark Sanford retired from politics.
He’s damaged goods. He risks handing a safe Republican congressional seat to the sister of liberal comedian Stephen Colbert. The 1st Congressional District needs a conservative who lives the talk instead of issuing apologies.
Yet, Sanford appears to be on the cusp of clinching the Republican nomination Tuesday for the right to take on Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a May 7 special election that’s sure to become a national spectacle.
In the grand scheme of modern Republican Party strategy, this makes total sense. Why wouldn’t you want to focus national attention on your disgraced, philandering candidate? It’s like the GOP is looking to shoot itself in the foot and South Carolina voters have volunteered the firearm.
“I think, by and large, people are forgiving, especially if they believe your repentance is real. If they believe you are asking for forgiveness authentically and sincerely, then I think people are willing to give people a second chance. I’ve been around the governor, and it seems authentic and sincere to me,” South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly told Politico. “I do think the people of the 1st Congressional District know him well. He’s run there before, and they’ve supported him. If there’s any group that’s willing to give him a second chance, this is it.”
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Her concerts, costumes and dance moves are so risque that she was banned from performing in Jakarta last year, but someone at the RNC apparently thought Lady Gaga would’ve been a good fit to perform at the Republican National Convention last summer in Tampa, Fla., alongside musical acts such as Journey and Lynyrd Skynyrd. But despite what controversy her presence might have caused, it was actually Gaga who turned down the GOP, not the other way around.
You know you’ve hit a new low when a woman who wears meat turns you down.
According to documents filed in a lawsuit against a stage vendor by American Action Network, a powerful Republican nonprofit fundraising organization, Gaga turned down a million-dollar offer from the RNC to appear on stage:
Documents filed with the lawsuit show that other entertainers also said “no thanks” to appearing at the GOP convention including Dolly Parton and the rapper Pitbull, who Republicans hoped to feature at an event for the Hispanic Leadership Network.
In addition to the $ 1 million paycheck, RNC officials also tried to lure Gaga with promises to donate $ 150,000 to a domestic violence shelter and feature her performance in a tribute to female officeholders.
The Washington Examiner‘s Susan Ferrechio has more here.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)CPAC organizers’ decision to not invite New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to speak and prevent gay Republican groups from participating as sponsors has caused some controversy on the right. Turning the heat up a notch are the editors at the conservative National Review.
They write today an appeal for CPAC to change course and be more inclusive:
GOProud is the most conservative gay group of note (perhaps the only gay group rightly called conservative), and that conservatism extends to its circumspection about many planks of the so-called gay-rights agenda … Conservative opinion on the intersection of homosexuality and politics is not monolithic, especially among the college-aged set that makes up the better part of CPAC attendees. And a gathering that hopes to speak for the conservative movement will be better equipped to do so if it represents the overlapping gamut of views included in it. …
As with GOProud, merely giving space to Christie’s views would not amount to an endorsement of them. But it could help move the intra-conservative conversation in productive new directions. And that, as we understand it, is what CPAC is supposed to be about.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)If the Republican Party is looking for optimism, it’s not in Rich Lowry‘s latest column. The editor of the conservative National Review writes in Politico that things aren’t good for the GOP and it’ll likely stay that way for the foreseeable future:
The McCain ad dubbing Barack Obama the biggest celebrity in the world back in 2008 was deadly accurate. What Republicans didn’t consider is that being a celebrity is a priceless asset in contemporary America. Celebrities are the gods of our pop culture. We let them play by different rules. We read about them in magazines and watch them on TV.
We obsess over them and identify with them.
Two hundred and thirty members of the House don’t have a chance against a president, let alone a celebrity. This won’t change anytime soon. It is way too early to have a presidential candidate or even a presidential field, so the party lacks a head and therefore a unified voice.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Speaking to the Lane County Republicans at their Lincoln Day Dinner in Oregon this weekend, conservative author and commentator Michelle Malkin wasn’t interested in toeing the party line. Instead, she encouraged those in attendance to work together in holding the GOP accountable and fighting back against establishment-types who draw the party away from its conservative base.
Malkin took specific issue with Republican strategist Karl Rove’s fundraising efforts and his “incumbency protection racket.”
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h/t Byron York
This certainly isn’t the first time Malkin has criticized Rove. In a column published earlier this month, she accused Robe of waging a “war on grass-roots conservatives” and tea partiers. ”Who needs Obama and his Team Chicago to destroy the Tea Party when you’ve got Rove and his big government band of elites?” Malkin wrote.
Rove and his Tea Party-bashing minions will point to the losses of Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, and others as justification to tighten his grip on the party in the role of Chief Decider. But those are all very disparate cases. It is ridiculous, for example, to continue smearing and lumping Mourdock (a bona fide, grass-roots candidate and fantastic State Treasurer whose sin was to honestly state his views on life) with establishment incumbent Republican Akin (whose indefensible Magical Uterus Meme idiocy cost the GOP a winnable Senate seat).
Rove is a master of distraction. And that’s what this Tea Party attack is all about.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)…so tweets Markos Moulitsas, founder of the infamous liberal blog site DailyKos.
This New Tone Alert brought to you by Guy Benson who bookmarked this gem on Wednesday:
Okay, the RNC is officially on the side of more dead children, because freedom.
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) January 16, 2013
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Here’s an argument you don’t hear too often: Republicans are benefiting from the Beltway media. Then again, it’s Eric Boehlert, senior fellow at Media Matters, who’s making the argument.
Worth a look anyway.
Boehlert writes in the Huffington Post today:
[A]s confirmation battles like the ugly one surrounding Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense continue to boil, the press keeps giving Republicans all kinds of cover.
In fact, the Hagel story, in which Obama made an effort to change the tone in Washington, D.C. by including a Republican in his Cabinet, only to have the goodwill gesture trampled by Republicans, perfectly captures the skewed way the news media depict modern-day politics. And the way journalists who beseech Obama to change the tone give him no credit when he tries.
Instead, we’re told Obama is courting controversy, he’s picking a fight, because he’s doing what newly elected presidents have done for centuries in this country, he’s selecting respected, well-qualified individuals whom he trusts to serve in his Cabinet. Writing for Bloomberg, Francis Wilkinson suggested that by nominating a Republican, Obama had intensified the Beltway’s “polarization.”
If this seems unusual, that’s because it is. What’s also unusual is that the Beltway press mostly refuses to acknowledge the strange obstructionist ways being adopted by the GOP as these dogged cabinet fights continue to roll out.
And the real kicker… Continue reading »
Filed under News | Comment (0)On NBC’s popular mockumentary comedy The Office, the character Michael Scott was known for trying to be helpful but always managing to do or say something uncomfortable. Like the episode where, wanting to prove he’s not homophobic, he asks a gay man to kiss him.
Watching renders the same feeling you get when reading lines from today’s story in the New York Times about Republicans becoming increasingly accepting of gay marriage.
Here are the best ones:
– “My brother married a black girl, and that worked out great for them.”
– “To be honest with you, most of them are very nice.”
– “I have a cousin who’s very bi, went every which way.”
–“She took me into a fully gay bar. It was a good time. These people have a sense of humor.”
–And this entire paragraph, written by Michael Winerip, the author of the story…: Continue reading »
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