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Republican Party voter registration worker: ‘I don’t get credit for Democrats’
A man registering voters in Nevada may have implicated the Republican Party in a felony when was caught on video recently telling potential voters to register “non-partisan” because “I don’t get credit for Democrats.” Nevada television station KOLO obtained cell phone video of a man, who claimed he worked for…
Jon Hubbard of Arkansas Has Some Ideas
I’m beginning to suspect the Republican Party exists mainly to cause rational people to say, “The fuck?!” at least once a day. In order to accomplish this mission, they are filling the state houses across the country with dudes whose sole purpose in life appears to be seeing how low…
Gloria Steinem: Women have to retake the GOP
Feminist Gloria Steinem said Wednesday that women hadn’t left the Republican Party, the Republican Party had left women. “What really happened is that old right-wing Republicans, starting with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, found the Democratic Party too inclusive, and like Jesse Helms, all those folks, they began to go…
Santorum: ‘Smart people will never be on our side’
In a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, former presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) marked out the media and “smart people” as permanent enemies of the Republican Party, according to BuzzFeed. “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,” he said. “We…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer: My dad ‘won’t be allowed to vote’ in Pennsylvania
Update (below): Ranking House Dem vows to help Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” revealed Tuesday that the Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts will prevent his own father, a veteran, from casting a ballot this fall in Pennsylvania. “I have a problem,” Cramer said on Twitter Tuesday morning. “My…
Krugman: Republican base is ‘elderly white people arguing with empty chairs’
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says that the Republican Party has adopted extreme anti-immigrant positions to appeal to their base, “which is, by and large, elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.” During a Sunday panel segment on ABC News, Krugman pointed out that Clint Eastwood’s bizarre conversation with…
Sen. Durbin blasts Fox News: God is not a franchise of the Republican Party
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Tuesday blasted Fox News host Bret Baier for “harping” on the fact that the Democratic Party Platform of 2012 didn’t contain the word “god.” “Well, I can just basically tell you that if the narrative that is being presented on your station and through your…
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Republicans ‘not generating enough angry white guys’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is warning Republicans that the strategy of relying on “angry white guys” is eventually going to doom his party. This week, the Republican Party, which is reportedly 92 percent white, has struggled to find minority speakers to take the stage at their convention. While former Secretary…
Granholm: GOP only pro-life on one side of the cervical wall
Current TV host Jennifer Granholm on Monday said that while the Republican Party considered itself “pro-life,” they were more concerned with the unborn than the recently born. “Republicans are definitely pro-birth,” she said. “They will do everything they can to make sure the baby comes out, regardless of how it…
Raw Story goes behind the scenes at the Republican National Convention
“Welcome to Tampa for the Republican National Convention” signs scream out from lampposts, billboards and shop windows across the region, as conventioneers continue to pour into Tampa from across the country and media descends from across the world to cover the Republican Party’s 4-day free advertisement for its candidate for…
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