Day: October 15, 2010

Jeb! Sends Lawyers After Deb! for Using Exclamation Point

Trish
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Jeb! implores the almighty to protect U.S. Trade Mark Registration No. 2,826,942

If anyone thought there were issues too petty for a former governor to unleash his lawyers over, Jeb Bush’s most recent actions should put such ideas to rest.

Even Florida’s most jaded political observers — including the Republican ones — are shaking their heads now.

Not only does Bush want Florida Senate District 8 candidate Deborah Gianoulis (D) to stop using her nickname in campaign materials, she is not to use the exclamation point, the colors red and white, or the letters “e” and “b.”

I’m serious.

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Verbatim

Buck Banks

I’ll put it to you this way about the Tea Party: Anybody that would put Sarah Palin to the top of their list will never get me. She’s a quitter.

— Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I), in an interview with Fancast, adding that “she was completely unqualified. I had more qualifications than she did.”

CA Sen: 75% of Independents Support Abortion Rights – Are They Really Ready to Elect a Senator Who Advocates Overturning Roe?

Jon Ponder

photo-scotus-pro-choice-signsEconomies rise and fall. The Bush Recession will end one day soon, and the California economy will rebound.

Anxiety about the economy is driving the election today, but with polls tightening to within 3 percentage points in Sen. Barbara Boxer’s reelection race, it is becoming increasingly likely that Californians could wake up when the recession is over and realize that they have elected a senator, Carly Fiorina, who advocates overturning Roe vs. Wade.

If Fiorina is elected, it would represent a radical departure for California voters, over two-thirds of whom are strongly pro-choice. In fact, Californians have not elected a senator who advocated overturning Roe, as Fiorina does, since it became law in 1973.

That’s why Fiorina has been so desperate to keep the topic of abortion out of the race. When she was asked about it in her first debate with Boxer, she confirmed she would overturn Roe “if there was an opportunity,” but quickly added that abortion “is not an issue I’m running on.”

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Verbatim

Buck Banks

When something is really important to us — like football — we care about the facts. If ever there was an example of not watching the game film, this is it. The game film shows the facts.

— Bill Clinton, quoted by the New York Times, urging voters to hold Republicans accountable for their role in creating the country’s economic problems.