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The Top Ten Dumbest Republican Quotes of 2012
It was not easy to pare down to ten a list from literally hundreds of dumb Republican quote candidates, but out of patriotism and love of country I have decided to take on the challenge.
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Why America Needs a Left
In Why America Needs a Left, Eli Zaretsky makes a case for a ‘hard’ left, something beyond either progressivism or liberalism
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Piers Morgan Says Flawed Bible Must be Amended
Piers Morgan, already being attacked for his stance on guns, has truly thrown caution to the wind by proclaiming that the Bible is flawed and must be amended.
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Tea Party Fantasies of Sending Obama to Prison for Benghazi
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
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This Holiday Season Do Your Own Thing and Damn the Critics
Conservative Christians despise atheism as being a subjective form of morality, ignoring the history of their own subjective belief system
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The Religious Right Wants You Dead in God’s Name
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
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Anti Union Dana Loesch Sues Breitbart for Hostile Working Conditions
Apparently Dana was unaware that working for a crazy conservative media outlet would naturally involve ‘indentured servitude in limbo.’
Why do Fundamentalists Feel the Need to Prove Jesus Was Resurrected?
What happened to belief? Aren’t fundamentalists who try to prove the resurrection as bad as the atheists they decry for demanding that proof?
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Staying at a Wyndham Hotel Equals NRA Blood Money
One of the world’s largest hospitality companies is Wyndham Hotels. When you stay at one of their hotels, you’re funding the NRA.
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David Barton Says We’ve Got to Have the Same Guns the Government Has
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
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Sanity Prevails in New Orleans as Revisionist Texas Textbooks Banished
Six schools have been saved for science in New Orleans, where humans will never walk with dinosaurs and Noah’s flood did not create the Grand Canyon
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Republicans Accuse Hilary Clinton of Lying About Concussion
Hilary Clinton, felled by a concussion, is under attack by Republicans for depriving them of an opportunity to subject her to the Inquisition
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James Dobson Says Sandy Hook is God’s Judgment on America
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
Eric Cantor’s letter spells out the continuing ALEC/Koch right-wing agenda
Eric Cantor has gotten his orders from Koch/ALEC headquarters, and there is no mistaking their intent; continue to make life hell for the President and Democratic House members.
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Religious Right: God Will Kill Our Children Until We Turn Schools Into Churches
Fundies are determined to scare you into allowing school sponsored prayer back into our public schools: God will kill your kids if you don’t
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The vicious red states are engaging in an attack on the public school system
South Carolina is a prime example of right-wing attempts to destroy the public school system and replace it with private school profiteers
Bryan Fischer Claims Homosexuality is a Birth Defect
The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer misrepresents a scientific study to claim that homosexuality is a birth defect
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Federal Judge Says North Carolina’s Choose Life License Plates are Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina cannot offer choose life plates without also offering pro-choice plates
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Why Progressives Can Make My Head Explode
Progressivism, like conservatism, is about regulating our lives. But I’m a liberal; I’m all about liberty, so leave my choices alone
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How state elected officials barely listen to those who elected them
An explanation of where the real influential power centers are inside and outside of state legislatures. Hint: it’s all about the money.
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The Demographics of Progress and the Demise of the America of Conservative Dreams
The numbers don’t lie: they didn’t lie on Election Night, and they do not lie in the longer run when they prove that America is becoming more, not less progressive.
In South Carolina the stampede is on to replace DeMint
Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate to take over the Presidency of the Heritage Foundation. Another extremist will undoubtedly take his place
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Conservatives Are Dreaming of a ‘White’ Christmas
Conservatives are dreaming of a ‘white’ Christmas, and that is all Christmas really is to them: a means to an end that has no role for Jesus
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Conservatives Introduce Their New Fantasy: Barack the Destroyer
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
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Oregon GOP County Chair Gets the Boot for Claiming Democrats Seek Utopian Enslavement
Gary Bray, Republican Party chairman in Washington County, Oregon, called liberalism an ‘atheistic cult’ which seeks ‘utopian enslavement’
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Conflict in the Courts as Federal Judges Issue Divergent Rulings on Gay Conversion Quackery
A federal district judge has issued a temporary injunction against a new California law banning gay conversion therapy, while a second federal judge has refused to block the ban.
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Pamela Geller Really, Really Hates Islam, Obama, and the UN
Even when compared to 2012’s other conservative ranters and spewers, a sour-faced lot if there ever was one, Muslim-baiter Pamela Geller stands out.
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Puzzled Republicans; here are the reasons African Americans gave the President 93% of their votes
The Emancipation Proclamation ostensibly freed the slaves back in the midst of the Civil War. Modern day slavery camouflaged as grotesque unemployment numbers and economic status exists today.
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Man Charged with Blasphemy for Pointing out Weeping Jesus Miracle was Plumbing Problem
In India, you can apparently be charged with blasphemy for pointing out that a statue of Jesus is not, in fact, crying.
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Glenn Beck’s Philosophical Belch – Agenda 21
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
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Stand Up and Shut Down the GOP Obstruction Machine by Demanding Filibuster Reform
Americans continue to support the use of the filibuster, but are demanding that Republican abuse of the procedure must stop.
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Fox News Has a Holiday Wish List but Governor Chafee Can’t Have a Holiday Tree
“All I want for Christmas is to kill it,” seems to be the song conservatives think liberals sing each and every holiday season. Fox News has made a lucrative living pushing a nonexistent war on Christmas, seizing on every example of religious pluralism in this country – that is, the right of people to believe…
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Why Conservatives are Wrong When They Say Liberalism Will Fail
Conservatives have convinced themselves of libearlism’s illigitimacy; now they have convinced themselves liberalism will fail
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Obama’s Support for Israel’s Iron Dome Gives GOP Fits of Cognitive Dissonance
Facts crash into belief where Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system is concerned. How could Obama have paid for it when he hates Israel?
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Grover Norquist Faces a Full-Out Republican Revenue Insurrection
Apparently, to Grover Norquist an agreement with him is as legally binding as a mortgage, at least in his own self-important, inflated head.
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Move Over Star Wars: A Trilogy of GOP Cognitive Dissonance: 2008, 2012, 2016
The Republican Party’s doldrums are likely to continue until they acknowledge reality, but there are no signs of that happening soon
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Republicans Turn Charter School Officials Into the New Robber Barons
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
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Just in time for Black Friday conservatives revive the War on Christmas
It is that season again – and no, I am not talking about Christmas. I am talking about the War on Christmas, which is a far more important season to religious conservatives.
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Things I am Grateful for in 2012
Even in troubled times, there are a great many things to be grateful for. Here are a few of mine.
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America is a Christian Nation. If We Don’t Like it, We Should Get Out
Another one of the 24 percent tells the 76 percent to get out because America is THEIR country: white and Evangelical
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How the Pax Americana is to Blame for Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
Israel could not have attacked Gaza without the tacit consent of the American government, which persists in seeing Israel as the victim
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Fundamentalists Admit They Prayed for Obama’s Defeat and God Said No
James Dobson determined that Obama’s defeat means we are living in a time of judgment and that God can make use of Obama
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Sorry GOP: We Do Not Need Churches in order to Prosper Economically
Conservatives insist that economic prosperity is impossible without their God but America wil prosper just as well with 20 gods or no gods
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Let’s Not Give Right Wing Religious Idiots and Hypocrites the Last Laugh
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
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Red State Secession Would Be a Dream Come True for the Rest of America
Don’t tell me that some little part of you would not just like to say to Texas, or to another Southern state of your choice, ‘Fine. Go. We admit it. 1861 was a mistake and we are undoing it now.’
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Republicans Declare Defeat and Claim They Have Lost the Culture War
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
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Idiot Republican Says Conservatives Are the New N-words
We’ve seen some crazy conclusions drawn since Election Day, but Larry Klayman’s claim that conservatives are the new N-words is obscene.
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After a near-perfect military career, General Patraeus hits a snag
Army General, David Patraeus was destined for greatness from his first year at West Point. Sadly, an affair tainted his stellar reputation.
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Les Misérables Resonates Thanks to Misery Born of Republican Ignorance
Victor Hugo wrote Les Misérables in 1862, addressing themes of social injustice that are still embraced today in the Republican Party
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Dirty Weather Puts 24 Hours of Reality in the Face of Climate Change Deniers
2012’s weather is a terrifying foretaste of the future of ourworld with Global Warming. Watch 24 Hours of Reality, the Dirty Weather Report
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Jon Husted Hatches a Plan to Make Sure Democrats Never Win Ohio Again
Ohio Secretary of State, Jon Husted wants to dramatically change electoral votes to favor Republicans, and make it nearly impossible for Democrats to win Ohio.
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Mrs. Cleaver’s America is Dead – and Thank God For It
Republicans, in appraising the causes for the Republican defeat in 2012, shy away from the real reasons for that defeat: the culture war
Republicans are Blaming George Clooney for Mitt Romney’s Defeat
The braniacs at World Net Daily and the American Family Association have convinced themselves we voted for Obama because George Clooney did
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What Obama’s Victory Means to the Religious Right
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
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It’s 2012 and Every American Should Have the Right to Vote in a Timely Manner
Now that the election is over, it is time for this country to address the deplorable state of voting and start seriously considering transforming America into an easily accessible democracy.
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Was Election Night a Mandate for the Status Quo?
America won four more years for President Obama, but did we issue a mandate for change or for the status quo?
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Ryan to Evangelicals: Obama’s Path Compromises Judeo-Christian Values
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
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A last and final look at Mitt Romney close up prior to November 6th
There could be no worse selection for President than money-monger, Mitt Romney. He himself admits, 47% of the population will be sidelined.
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The GOP’s Vorpal Blade of Cognitive Dissonance Goes Snicker-Snack!
Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready
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Romney Lies on CNN. This is his Real Vision for America
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
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Election Day 2012 Boils Down Not to Fantasy But to Our Shared Reality
With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than wishful thinking
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Franklin Graham Says Election Day 2012 is America’s Last Call
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
While Science Points to Humans Causing Superstorms, Conservatives Blame Sin
Science explains superstorms like Hurricane Sandy, but conservatives prefer to see human immorality and a wrathful god
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Billy Ray Cyrus Endorses Obama
Miley Cyrus already embraced going forward and now her father follows in her wake, coming out for Obama on Piers Morgan Friday
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Mourdock Loses Ground in Senate Race But GOP Party of Rape Not Even Close to Getting It
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
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Hot Patooie, Bless My Soul! It’s Meatloaf for Mitt Romney!
An obviously embarassed Mitt Romney and a drunk Meatloaf treanded on Twitter last night #MITTLOAF
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Texas Declares War on UN Vote Monitors
Texas says to hell with international treaties and has threatened legal action against OCSE observers if they watch Texas suppress the vote
Romney’s Endorsement of Rape Enthusiast Richard Mourdock
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
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FBI Investigating Hoax Letters to Voters in Florida
The FBI is working with The Florida Department of Law Enforcement, to find the source of hoax letters received by voters in several Florida counties.
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Republicans Scramble to Make Horses and Bayonets Work for Them
Mitt Romney stepped into a hornet’s nest last night full of horses and bayonets and the Republican effort to extricate him is frantic
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UN Vote Monitors Draw Outrage from the GOP’s Voter Suppression Groups
Conservatives are beside themselves at the idea of foreigners monitoring their voter suppression activities on Election Day
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Bryan Fischer, Kicked off CNN for Lying, Reacts like Childish Buffoon
Bryan Fischer appeared on CNN this week to share his hateful and dishonest spew but ran into a host who was having none of it
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Dinish D’Souza Championed Family Values Through Adulterous Tryst
D’Souza, who attacked Obama in a recent film, is out as president of King’s College after having an adulterous tryst at Family Values event
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Billy Graham’s Debate Day Present to Romney – You’re not a Cultist
Billy Graham was clear about what constituted a cult. But for the sake of theocracy in 2012, Billy Graham sold his soul to Satan
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Failure to Teach Christianity in Public Schools is Mental Molestation
Fundies claim failure to teach Christianity in public schools is mental molestation – say it ought to be punished like physical molestation
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The Lies Used to Portray Obama as an anti-Constitutionalist
Matt Barber calls quotes anti-Constitutionalist Patrick Henry to defend the Constitution and to portray Obama as the anti-Constitutionalist
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Best Romney Photo Ever?
Republicans reacted with cries of media bias when they saw this photo, but they conveniently forgot how they laughed at a 2009 Obama photo
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The GOP’s Blatant Support for Theocracy
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
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In Foreign Policy Romney Needs to be More than Not-Obama
Mitt Romney is campaigning as not-Obama and in this case at least, he is being entirely honest: he is not Obama
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Post-Debate Romney is Still a Pig in a Poke
Republicans have shown they are willing to overlook almost anything, to believe almost any lie, if it means getting rid of Barack Obama
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Who Won the Debate? Maybe Some Senate Dems
The money men were beginning to realize the wisdom of the old saw about throwing good money after bad and many pundits were speculating that the debate was Romney’s last gasp.
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If a Straight Man Can Resist Polygamy a Gay Man Can Resist Other Men?
Fundamentalists are forever looking for a working equation to make same-sex attraction unnatural but the only thing unnatural is their logic
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Romney Won! The Debate is Over and the Spin Begins
The mainstream media was quick to proclaim a Romney victory afer last night’s debate, but who really won remains to be seen
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Judge Blocks Pennsylvania Voter Suppression Law
A judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s voter suppression law not be enforced this election, that those without photo IDs must be allowed to vote
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GOP Voter Registration Firm Accused of Fraud Fired in North Carolina
The North Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that they have fired the fraud scandal-ridden Sproul shell company that has also done around 70,000 voter registrations for the Romney campaign.
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Biblically Clueless Joseph Farah Attacks the Left’s Biblical Literacy
Joseph Farah just can’t wrap his mind around a Christianity that includes its Christ, and attacks Jim Wallis for getting Jesus right
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Obama Plays Netanyahu Like a Fiddle, Romney Follows Behind
President Obama artfully and diplomatically manipulated Netanyahu and Mitt Romney is like a puppy chasing Obama, copying Obama’s words on Iran.
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Is a Pretty Young Mormon Woman Evidence of GOP Voter Fraud?
Innocent misunderstanding or more? A young Mormon woman says she works for the County Clerk and is only registering Romney voters
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An Interview with Nonbeliever Nation’s Author, David Niose
I ask David Niose, author of Nonbeliever Nation, a few questions about his book and about recent events in both America and around the world
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Nonbeliever Nation by David Niose is a Secular Manifesto
David Niose’s timely book is not another look at the Religious Right; this call to arms is written for Secular Americans about secularism
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Ralph Reed Tries Some Hocus Pocus for a Bush Redux in 2012
Ralph Reed, the 90’s Evangelical Wunderkind, once disgraced, is back again mobilizing the vote he once said was mythical, for Mitt Romney
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As President, Would Mitt Romney Obey his Prophet or the Constitution?
Mormon David Twede asked if President Romney would answer to the Mormon prophet; David Twede was interrogated and now faces excommunication
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Mitt Romney Says Obama Has Given Up but is Romney even Trying?
Mitt Romney wants to convince Ameicans that Obama has quit on them, perhaps to cover up the fact that he himself isn’t even really trying
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Meme of Desperation – Bush Gave Middle East 10 Years of Peace
In a breathtaking revision of history, we are being told that President Bush gave the Middle East ten years of peace
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Romney and Ryan – The Haters in Chief
It is un-American to have as a president a man who preaches religious intolerance and who promotes the idea of state-sponsored religion
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Romney Throws Details out Window, Turns to God
Mitt Romney has never been very specific about what he would do as president to “fix” things. He just says he’d fix this and he’d fix that. The “how” is vague. Instead of specifics, we get emotion: God. Apparently, Romney will fix America’s problems by not taking “God out of the public square.” That’s what…
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Fake Jew Says Obama Victory Would be God’s Judgment on America
The fundamentalists got themselves covered now, so don’t even try to argue: if Obama wins, it’s God’s will. If Romney wins, it’s God’s will.