Looks like maybe someone tried to frame that Elvis impersonator.
You will be shocked to learn that the framer was once a GOP candidate for Congress.
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Looks like maybe someone tried to frame that Elvis impersonator.
You will be shocked to learn that the framer was once a GOP candidate for Congress.
Would I still see suspicion in your eyes?Post + Comments (179)
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I’ll be pretty excited if Elizabeth Colbert Busch pulls this one out:
PPP’s newest poll on the special election in South Carolina finds Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch expanding her lead to 9 points over Mark Sanford at 50/41. Green Party candidate Eugene Platt polls at 3%.
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It’s a western thing….
The new ad for SarahPAC is awesome, especially the bear roaring at the end.
Is it irresponsible to talk about Sarah Palin? It’s irresponsible not to, since the more she’s in the public eye, the more the Republican brand is degraded. She may as well be a DNC plant, just as Jennifer Rubin may as well be a Friends of Hamas plant.
Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats youPost + Comments (65)
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Lee Greenwood performing at his own expense, simply to show his support for the conservative movement #CPAC2013 #tcot
— CPAC (@CPACnews) March 15, 2013
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I get tired of outrage — and you know that I’m not a principled Burkean objective anti-executionist — so this is more about proving that cleek was right than anything else.
That lefties are accusing the new pope of handing over lefties to the right wing junta for execution makes me adore the new pope.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 13, 2013
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that (via):
A day ahead of the papal conclave, faces at the scandal-struck Vatican were even redder than usual after it emerged that the Holy See had purchased a €23 million (£21 million) share of a Rome apartment block that houses Europe’s biggest gay sauna.
The senior Vatican figure sweating the most due to the unlikely proximity of the gay Europa Multiclub is probably Cardinal Ivan Dias, the head of the Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples, who is due to participate in tomorrow’s election at the Sistine Chapel.
[….]The sauna’s website promotes one of its special “bear nights”, with a video in which a rotund, hairy man strips down before changing into a priest’s outfit. It says Bruno, “a hairy, overweight pastor of souls, is free to the music of his clergyman, remaining in a thong, because he wants to expose body and soul”.
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No one reads Mark Halperin anymore but this is a fascinating look into his mind:
If 2016 brings a Hillary Clinton-Jeb Bush contest (a bigger “if” for me than for many of my colleagues, but still…), the dynamics will be fascinating. Neither will go unchallenged for the party nomination, but both might avoid having to strain to become the standard bearer, fluently brandishing the elements required to win: money, fame, access to the media, compelling personal/political narratives, policy chops, top-shelf staffing, support from both elites and the grassroots, and the experience borne from a professional lifetime at the very highest levels of American politics.
Although both would face nomination competitors, there is a very solid chance Jeb and Hillary could emerge largely unscathed as general election candidates, and not forced to the extremes of their respective parties. They would both almost certainly follow the Bill Clinton-George W. Bush model, running in the ideological center throughout the entire race, with announcement speeches mirroring their convention acceptance speeches. In fact, on some issues, Jeb Bush might actually turn out to be more moderate than Hillary Clinton, and Clinton more conservative than Bush.
Jeb Bush has already succumbed to teahadist pressure on one of the most important issues in presidential general elections: immigration reform. And the primary is three years away. The notion he’s going to win while keeping to the middle is laughable.
The disconnect between pundits and voters on the subject of the Bush family is truly profound: W left office one of the most unpopular presidents in history. We regularly read right-wingers tell us that W wasn’t a “real conservative”.
And now the red sea will part and let us brother waltz to the nomination?
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