Day: July 26, 2010
Afghanistan Unplugged
Life’s made up of valleys and peaks,
When it’s the TRUTH for which one seeks.
But when it comes to the war
Search blindly no more —
Just navigate over to Wikileaks.
CO Gov: Tancredo Enters Race, Could Toss Election to Democrat John Hickenlooper
You should get out of the race for governor, former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R) told Colorado Republicans Scott McInnis and Dan Maes last week, if polls show that you can’t beat Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper in the November election. And if you don’t, I’m going to run as a third-party candidate.
McInnis and Maes, battling each other in the Aug. 10 primary, refused. Today … Tancredo joins the race as a candidate of the American Constitution Party.
Of course, Tancredo — who served in the House as a Republican for five terms and sought his party’s presidential nomination in 2008 on an anti-illegal immigration platform — has to first register with his new party. But that’s just a formality.
McInnis, a former congressman who had been his party’s frontrunner for gov., has been under a barrage of criticism over plagiarism charges… Once upon a time, back when Bill Ritter (D) decided to retire, Republicans were confidently predicting they would take back the governorship. But between the McInnis woes and the increasing negativity in the Senate contest between Jane Norton and Ken Buck … the opportunities for GOP gains in both contests are in jeopardy.
RNC Beverly Hills Fundraiser to Feature Race-Baiting Tea Bagger Andrew Breitbart
The fundraising event, billed as an “Election Countdown,” will take place from August 12-14 in Beverly Hills, California, and will also feature other politicians such as California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, and Nevada Republican gubernatorial nominee Brian Sandoval. Steele and Breitbart are scheduled to co-headline a welcome reception on the first evening, August 12…
RNC spokesman Doug Heye confirmed to TPMDC that the event is going on, but declined to comment further on the nature of fundraising events…
The Four Seasons hotel company, which owns the Beverly Wilshire, has also confirmed to TPMDC that the event is booked for those days, but was unable to confirm a guest list.
I guess the RNC figures, what the heck, we weren’t going to get votes from blacks and others who oppose racism in California anyway, so why not bring out the David Duke of new media to raise money for the party in the heart of the Southern California liberal enclave.
(And it’s fitting somehow that the event will be held in the hotel that was the setting for “Pretty Woman,” the Disney movie that sent a powerful message to young girls that all they had to do to find fulfillment in life was become a street whore and and then fall in love with a wealthy john.)
It will be interesting to see how the city fathers and mothers of Beverly Hills deal with their city being tarred by association with an event featuring a notorious racist, not to mention the protest rally that is sure to be scheduled for the street in front of the hotel, at Wilshire Boulevard and Rodeo Drive, on August 12.
Verbatim
They desperately need some intellectual leadership, and whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
— Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean, in an interview on Fox News.
Verbatim
Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I’m on the camera?
– Ken Buck, Colorado GOP/Tea Bagger candidate for the U.S. Senate, caught on tape this week.
Because I don’t wear high heels.
– Buck responding last week when asked why Coloradans should vote for him in the primary instead of his GOP opponent, who is a woman.
Two New Polls Show Support for Gay Marriage Rising in California
Two new polls released this week seem to indicate that public opinion in California is slowly, slowly shifting towards an acceptance of gay marriage — despite the defeat of Proposition 8 two years ago.
A Field Poll on Tuesday showed that if a vote was held on Proposition 8 now, 51 percent of all Californians would vote it down. Then yesterday the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)released a survey showing, among other findings, that 51 percent of Californians would vote to approve same-sex marriages if given the chance and only 22 percent of Californians believe Proposition 8 has been a good thing for California.
Dean Goes on Fox to Attack Network’s Race Baiting
Former Vermont governor and chair of the Democratic National Committee HOWARD DEAN: The Tea Party called out their racist fringe and I think the Republican Party’s got to stop appealing to its racist fringe. And Fox News is what did that. You put that on. Continuing to cater to this theme of minority racism and stressing comments like this — some of which are taken out of context — does not help the country knit itself together…
