As expected Willard Romney won Florida walking away, and that means he gets all the available delegates in Florida (Which I believe would have been more but didn’t they get stripped down a little?). Gingrich for his part is vowing to fight on. I’m not sure if that means vowing to fight on, or vowing to shake Romney down for millions at some point. [Read more…]
As soon as the polls closed Newt Gingrich was called the winner by most major news networks. That is all, and it’s hilarious.
That leggy carton of milkduds is gonna walk out dancing any second now. As the dreaded wingnut wurlitzer cranks up and delivers … more friendly fire. This is what’s so much fun about the GOP race, they have perfected the big lie, the big smear, and trained their base to believe every word unquestionably. Now that apparatus has been hijacked by at least two sociopaths fighting for the heart and soul of the fundie voter, a flip-flopping heretic and a serial adulterer. And they’re both using it with abandon: [Read more…]
Mittens is under assault by Rick Santourm and Newt Gingrich. Initial results from the Iowa caucuses two weeks ago had Mitt up on Santorum by a lonely eight votes. Those results have been retabulated and the adjusted numbers indicate a Santorum victory by several dozen votes. To make matters worse, Newt has picked up some real big mo in South Carolina and now is polling dead even or slightly ahead of Romney: [Read more…]
Update: In unrelated untimely celebration of the good news Rick Perry pulls out of the GOP nom race.
It’s over. It may not feel over, it sure as hell doesn’t seem over for a lot of people including me. But the Great Recession is over. I was pretty sure late last year when I saw the confirmation bump in the trend, but I’m as certain now as one can be about these things. [Read more…]
From a just released bulletin — that I had to sit on for a couple of hours and wasn’t allowed to tell anyone about publicly. The recall Governor of Wisconsin, i.e., Scott Walker, seems to have scored big. About 46% of the entire Wisconsin electorate signed the recall petition, that’s huge. And where is Walker as this unfolds? He’s at an NYC fundraiser far away from his home state, begging the guy who founded the firm that crashed the economy for money so he can keep handing out gravy-laden middle-class tax-payer goodies to the pampered 0.01% who preyed on the rest of us for the last 30 years. Some stats from the recall release below the fold: [Read more…]
Ron Paul, quasi-libertarian (Except when he agrees with Big Gubmint inspection of reproductive genitalia) front runner, is under intense scrutiny for another batch of racist, prejudiced laced missives smearing everyone from Jews to gays to secret world-wide conspiracies of the Black Man and Black Helicopter kinds and, of course, the Clintons as America’s number one crime family. Some of this sounds quite ugly, but it’s not clear just how Paul was involved or if he was much involved at all. So far his campaign has issued no official explanation or statement that I’m aware of on these new revelations: [Read more…]
The thing about SuperPACs is they can’t be for someone. But they can sure as hell be against ’em. In a two-party system, there’s probably a binary legal argument about what that reduces to. In the meantime, Colbert demonstrates just how absurd SuperPACs can be with his own Colbert for President SPAC — not to be in any way confused with the official campaign. [Read more…]
Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah and Mitt Romney political look-alike, has officially dropped out of the Republican race for Preznit. [Read more…]
Once the central pillar of the GOP base, the religious right is facing a big, divisive problem. They can either vote for a moderate white conservative heretic with a checkered past, or stand idly by and let a black progressive Christian win a second term. Wingnut activists have been cooking up this shit sandwich with Mormon bashing for years: [Read more…]