This evening at the Citadel, the two candidates for the SC District 1 Congressional seat, will debate for an hour and fifteen minutes. Here is what you need to know.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
The legislation being proposed by the GOP House is pathetic. Yet, little is heard from Democratic constituents. Activism is the answer.
Texas Republican Representative, Louie Gohmert is convinced Sharia law is trying to take over the U.S. legal system. So, he’s packing.
Republicans delayed their convention a day, taking no chances with Isaac. There will be no political chances taken with the base either.
On the heels of Romney failing to consummate his relationship with conservatives properly, they are calling on their fellow Republicans to vote third party for Jesus.
Republicans have discovered that the candidate they got is not the candidate they wanted, or needed. Nevada’s ballot offers a solution
Ted Nugent believes we’d be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights was all about slavery
Some of Ron Paul’s otherwise socially liberal followers are an example of men who have turned their backs on reproductive rights.
Mitt Romney is a few votes short of making his Republican nomination for president official, but thanks to a lack of support from his own party, Romney’s teetering train may make a few more stops.
The pastor of a North Carolina church who recommended cracking 4-year-old gay children’s wrist, then ‘punching’ them is the latest example of the pulpit serving the right’s epicenter for gay hate.
During the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination the wives of all the candidates have been a faithful and reliable presence. Let’s learn more about Ann Romney and rest of the wanna be First Lady wives club.
Newt Gingrich is firing staff and scaling back on primary appearances. The latest polls don’t look good for Gingrich and even his Adelson money is running out.
Native Americans were dispatched with the same unfeeling inhumanity then that killed African-American Trayvon Martin, and now they are nearing extinction.
With the endorsement of Republican ‘Golden Boy’ Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney has locked up the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Democrats are cautioned to start playing defensive politics and pay special attention to the very real possibility of rigging voting machines.
It was a predictable win for Mitt Romney in Illinois. Rich Santorum finished a 12-point second with but 8 of the 49 available delegates. Meanwhile, Santorum pines for PA and Texas.
The GOOP primary process moves to Missouri, Illinois and Louisiana as final results would appear to be a wash with no real advantage to anybody.
Rick Santorum won in Alabama and Mississippi because Evangelical right-wingers constituted the overwhelming majority of Tuesday’s Deep South voters. And they voted race no matter what they tell you.
The Republican primary death march rolled through Kansas today where evangelical zombie Rick Santorum scooped up the hate vote and rolled to victory.
ALL ABOARD! The Nutbag Express will be making stops in Michigan and Arizona tonight as Republican voters take another step towards determining who will get to lose to President Obama.
Rick Santorum accuses Dutch doctors of euthanizing patients involuntarily. He basis information on a radical Website and distorts truth.
The three Republican presidential candidates of note (sorry, Mr. Paul) are destined to continue the policies of economic destruction.ro
A special Politicus Radio post Republican debate program focuses on the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, and their love of lying about America, their own records, and President Obama. Jason Easley, Sarah Jones and George Sirios take on the CNN Republican debate, listen here: As Jason wrote for PoliticusUSA last night, the CNN Republican Debate was…
A general review of the debate lies and hateful Obama references of the three remaining viable GOP Presidential candidates.
Ron Paul, Mitt Romney’s errand boy, who is in charge of making Rick Santorum look bad to his conservative base says Rick is very liberal.
With the GOP Presidential primary candidates, this current reproductive rights flap started with Planned Parenthood, took a turn to a woman’s right to choose and now has gone full circle with their unanimous opposition to contraception whether its through the candidates statements or the stand up comedy of their ancient surrogates, one of whom advises…
There are around a million gang members in the U.S. Gang violence costs thousands of lives and billions of dollars, and Republicans seem unmoved.
Recent polls show Obama’s popularity on the rise, even among Independents and Republicans, while enthusiasm among the GOP base is falling.
Rick Santorum has something in common with the base: shared idiocy about an America that never was, and the culture war cred to go with it
Another day, another Republican caucus, another chance for conservatives to pick the candidate who will have the honor of losing to Obama.
There is a disconnect between Christian right voters claim of following the bible and at the same time supporting very immoral candidates.
Even though Rick Santorum will soon come crashing back to earth, it’s instructive to look at this darling of the wing-nut vote and has a puncher’s chance of being the Republican nominee.
Santorum surges in GOP races. My local newspaper headline pretty much captured the flavor of yesterday’s round of two Republican Presidential caucuses and one non-binding primary. It was definitely the flaming heterosexual’s day in the sun, though in the future there will be many more of those hotter than normal sunny days in all sections…
How time flies as the Republicans gift us with two more caucuses and a non-binding primary. The Missouri primary features presidential candidates from the two major parties and two minor ones. The votes count for the Democrats and the two little guys, but not for the Republicans. The Republican Party decided on a March 7th…
Conservatives can’t handle the truth about the aftermath of slavery or neo-slavery and how it still affects African Americans lives today.
For all the glitz and glamor of Vegas and Reno, the Nevada caucuses were more like a crooner lounge act than a big-time showgirl extravaganza.
When the horse trading starts, things could get squirrelly and unpredictable during the GOP’s Nevada caucuses.
Mitt Romney wins the Florida primary after his campaign floods Florida TV outlets with 13,000 negative ads aimed at Mitt Romney.
This feature assesses the ethics of the two Florida primary frontrunners, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. Both leave much to be desired.
The battle between Newt and Mitt was fierce in tonight’s Jacksonville, Florida CNN Republican debate. But Mitt Romney came off as weak and wins the clown of the night.
Mitt Romney lies about being in his own campaign ad, and four other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the CNN Florida Republican Debate.
Mitt Romney claims his great contribution to conservatism is raising a family, and 4 other reasons to be glad you didn’t watch the NBC Republican debate.
While talking about Rand Paul, Rush Limbaugh claimed that the TSA would be justified in detaining Ron Paul because he sounds like an Islamic terrorist.
The Republican presidential hopefuls have established cults of personality in line with Max Weber’s model of charismatic leadership
Gingrich sent a message to the Romney election machine in South Carolina last night, taking in 40 percent of the vote to Romney’s 27 percent
Mitt Romney admits he won’t release his tax returns until after he is the nominee, and 4 more reasons to be glad you missed the CNN South Carolina Republican debate.
While so many Republicans rush toward self-martyrdom, one, Ralph Reed, is headed in the other direction – toward resurrection in 2012
Quadrennial asterisk Ron Paul is once again displaying his Libertarian Wolf Boy exhibit at the Republican freak show, again prompting puzzled onlookers to remark “oh yeah, I remember that guy,” and “what the hell is he doing up there?” Now that Paul has risen from novelty candidate to so-called “top tier” status, his libertarian principles arguably merit closer examination before being mothballed for another four years.
The three way split that occurred in Iowa last night is actually representative of the fracture that exists within the GOP – Romney/Santorum/Paul.
Ron Paul is a poster boy for the GOP’s complete lack of compassion. The ideology of the GOP suggest that compassion is a character flaw.
With the Iowa Caucus upon us we can see that the GOP has become trapped by its own extreme narrative, depriving any victor of national appeal
We all seem to make New Year’s resolutions, so here are a few recommended resolutions for our Republican friends.
There is no better moment to make predictions than hours before they can be tested. That in mind, what follows is my take on what we can expect to see on the the day of the Iowa Caucuses, and in the immediately following few weeks.
