July 11, 2012
Romney booed during speech at NAACP meeting
Well, I’m not sure anyone expected this to go any better.
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July 8, 2012
Voter ID Law Arguments With Friends And Family
It goes like this: Voting is such an important thing why would we not require a photo ID?
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June 15, 2012
Romney’s Unpredictable Surrogate – Donald Trump
Recently, several prominent Democrats have come out against President Obama’s ads attacking Mitt Romney’s relationship with Bain Capital, a private equity firm. For its part, the Obama campaign has defended its ads and have tried to bring these Democrats back in line with the campaign’s message. Surrogates are beneficial to campaigns, but they also come with some measure of risk. In the Romney camp, Donald Trump is their principle high risk, high reward surrogate.
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June 14, 2012
Marijuana could be Barack Obama’s secret weapon in this election
With support for legalisation polling at a record 50%, it may be time for the president to reassess his position on drugs policy
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May 30, 2012
Train Wreck: Romney Campaign Press Secretary Andrea Saul On The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd
Romney Campaign Press Secretary Andrea Saul was on The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd today. I’ve transcribed part of her appearance to highlight just how vague and non-specific the Romney campaign messaging is. They don’t really offer solutions. What they offer are critiques of the Obama administration based on generalities.
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May 15, 2012
The Romney Campaign’s Only Tactic: It’s The Economy Stupid
When President Obama talks about something other than the economy the Romney campaign finds it necessary to accuse the president of trying to deflect attention away from the economy. This is their current tactic and it’s possibly their entire strategy. But will it work? Maybe.
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May 14, 2012
How Is Obama’s Support Of Same-Sex Marriage A Political Slam Dunk?
Last week President Obama publicly gave his support to same-sex marriage. It’s mostly symbolic since the president maintains that it’s a matter for the states to decide, but it’s important symbolism nonetheless, and immediately and predictably the attacks from the Right began. It’s noteworthy that much of the pushback from the Right has been along the lines of criticizing President Obama on political grounds and not on same-sex marriage itself. In other words, it seems many on the Right, especially Fox News pundits, have been careful in how they are critical of Obama on this issue. Could it be that they are well aware that a majority of the country now supports same-sex marriage?
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May 8, 2012
Pennsylvania Sued By 93-Year-Old Woman Over Discriminatory Voter ID Law
Yes, Pennsylvania’a new voter ID law (and similar laws in other states) is in fact discriminatory. I don’t care about rationalizations, because the Republican lawmakers responsible for these laws know exactly what they are doing. Their rationalizations might have convinced Republican voters that voter fraud is a serious problem, but for the rest of us these laws are a big steaming pile of horseshit.
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April 26, 2012
Republicans Look Desperate With New Obama ‘Celebrity’ Ads
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April 23, 2012
Jon Huntsman Bluntly Reveals Why He Was The Only Sane Republican Candidate
Jon Huntsman threw some punches at his party in an interview at the 92nd Street Y in New York on Sunday night. His candor reveals him to be the only sane candidate in a GOP field filled with nonsense, hypocrisy and really bad ideas. Well, ex-candidate that is. Huntsman was disinvited from a Republican National Committee fundraiser in Florida after he said the following on MSNBC, “I think we’re going to have problems politically until we get some sort of third-party movement or some voice out there that can put forth new ideas. We might not win, but we can certainly influence the debate.” In his interview at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday, Huntsman said of the Republican Party and his ouster from the RNC Florida fundraiser, “This is what they do in China on party matters if you talk off script.”
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