Gingrich Lobbying to be Trump’s Running Mate https://t.co/Lzn7daqjLK — Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) May 23, 2016 PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE https://t.co/ROILjX0QPp — Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) May 23, 2016 Jim Newell, at Slate, on “the perfect running mate for Donald Trump”: … Gingrich, in his trademark way of exuding unsubtlety in the execution of what he believes to be a …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Hostile (to Reality) Takeover
You got used to Ayotte's "support—not endorse." Now meet Gohmert's "vote for—not support." https://t.co/Th6XB8DAoA pic.twitter.com/kf9z344bQ0 — Taniel (@Taniel) May 24, 2016 Only 11 of 246 House Republicans have categorically said they won't endorse Trump. https://t.co/S2x98pAXs8 — Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 24, 2016 FINDING: It's easier to do a hostile takeover of the Republican Party than …
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Late Night Open Thread: Our Opposition, in Their Own Words
@AriFleischer "Say what u will?" Yes, please. You're a Jew supporting a man who wants a religious test for entering US. Sleep well at night? — Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) May 23, 2016 NEW: @LindseyGrahamSC privately urges GOP donors to support @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/J6iRAeLFwd — Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) May 22, 2016 Lindsey Graham has called Trump a …
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Lest We Forget: “The Disaster of Richard Nixon”
There are pundits already lathering themselves up about how this is the most seriously dangerous inflection point in all of American history — which is, thankfully, untrue. It’s probably not even the most dangerous time in living memory, among other reasons because things have changed in response to earlier crises. In the New York Review …
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Late Night Creepshow Open Thread: Nothing Says FREEDUMB Like Locking People Up
United States Senator upset that more Americans aren't in jail https://t.co/yvqElsQbP1 pic.twitter.com/rFflNDVrxv — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 19, 2016 (via Oliver Willis) Would-be seditionist and “GOP manly man” (note new Lincoln-esque beard) Senator Tom Cotton is outraged, outraged! … He described efforts to restore voting rights to felons as a partisan tactic to drive up …
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Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Christianist Hypocrites Embrace the Combover Caligula
Or, as the Grey Lady mealymouths it, “Social Conservatives, However Reluctant, Are Warming to the Idea of Trump”… Activists and leaders in the social conservative movement, after spending most of the past year opposing and condemning Donald J. Trump, are now moving to embrace his candidacy and are joining the growing number of mainstream Republicans …
Late Night Weird Kinks Open Thread: But It Worked in St. Ronnie’s Day!
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) Back in the Morning of America, when the Moral Majority ruled the land (or at least the cable news networks), a Repub pol looking for cheap publicity could count on Newt Gingrich or Jerry Falwell to provide attention-catching scare topics for every election. Alas, the dogs bark but the caravan moves …
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