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Dead pig wearing Romney shirt left outside California GOP office
A dead pig with barbed wire around its head and a Romney/Ryan 2012 tshirt on its torso was found outside a Republican campaign office in Manhattan Beach, California on Thursday. The Los Angeles-area office was otherwise undamaged and whoever dumped the animal’s remains didn’t leave much of an explanation. “I…
Convention lineup crafted to change perception the GOP is ‘the party of middle-aged white men’
A black former top diplomat, a Cuban-born senator, an Indian-American governor — the speakers list for next week’s Republican National Convention reads like a conservative Rainbow Coalition. The convention, which will formally tap former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as the party’s presidential candidate, headlines a multi-hued line-up meant to belie…
Reagan-appointed judge: Republican ‘lunatics’ made me less conservative
A well-respected judge who was appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan says that he has become less conservative because of “crackpots” and “lunatics” in the Republican Party. In an interview with NPR on Thursday Judge Richard Posner said that “right-wingers” were making a…
Arizona shooter was neo-Nazi and former GOP official
An Arizona man who on Wednesday reportedly killed four people, including a 47-year-old grandmother and a 15-month-old infant, and then took his own life was also a former Republican Party official, a former white supremacist neo-Nazi and the founder of a border patrol vigilante group that advocated using violence on…
Wisconsin Democrats: RNC memo on Gov. Walker recall a ‘tea party fantasy’
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin said a memo released by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday was little more than a “tea party fantasy.” The memo argued that the upcoming recall elections in Wisconsin will actually help Republican’s in the state. “My friend Reince is a good lawyer…
Anti-abortion ‘personhood’ bill advances in Virginia
PORTSMOUTH, Virginia (Reuters) – Virginia lawmakers took a step toward outlawing abortion on Tuesday by approving “personhood” legislation that grants individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception. The Republican-controlled House of Delegates voted 66-32 in favor of defining the word person under state law to include unborn…
US conservatives pummel Obama at conference
US conservatives are invoking apocalyptic imagery to trash President Barack Obama’s “terrible” record as they tamp down concern over which Republican might face the incumbent in November. The party’s star power is on full display at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held over three days in Washington, with…
Obama into fray as Republicans feud
As Republicans feud in a divisive nominating melee, President Barack Obama this week takes his reelection blueprint of economic justice for all direct and unfiltered to American voters. Obama will lay out his vision in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, seeking to defy political logic that suggests incumbent…
Say “conservative” not “Republican” to woo Latinos: Tea Party
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Preaching a conservative message is a better way to connect with the growing U.S. Hispanic community than to mention the Republican Party by name, the nation’s first Hispanic tea party group president said at an Austin forum on Thursday. “Whenever the word ‘Republican’ is used, it…
GOP Rep. Frank Wolf: Grover Norquist profits from ‘unsavory people’
Republican Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia on the House floor Tuesday attacked Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge, which has been signed by nearly every Republican in the House and Senate. “My conscience has compelled me to come to the floor today to voice concerns I have with the influence…
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