Tag Archives: 2012 elections

That’d be one way to guarantee Obama’s second term.

In 2008, Fred Karger founded Californians Against Hate, the activist group that has led successful boycotts of anti-gay businesses and forced investigations of the Mormon Church and NOM. Yesterday Karger issued a press release announcing that he is considering a 2012 run for U.S. president. As an “independent Republican.” I would be the first openly gay candidate to seek the …

Sarah Palin thinks it time for a third party. Would viable Tea Party candidate would siphon support from the GOP or drive them further right? Probably both.

It turns out that Sarah Palin’s story about going to Canada to get health care, which she described yesterday as “ironic”, isn’t the same story she told about the incident just a few years ago. Also: She just compared herself to God.

Sarah Palin appeared on Jay Leno’s relaunched Tonight Show last night to talk up teabaggers and Fox News. Note how the house band walks her in to Everyday People. Ugh. If you can stand it, Free Republic has a live thread from the show.

Loony tune Ron Paul won today’s CPAC straw poll on potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates. CPAC’s annual straw poll is a closely watched indicator of the rising or falling stars of conservative politicians, although its results aren’t necessarily predictive of future electoral success. A libertarian from Texas who has railed against spending and the Federal Reserve, Paul won the Saturday …

Via GOProud, who supports the Draft Cheney movement.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told PBS yesterday that she plans to leave the Obama administration at the end of the current term. Speculation as to what that means has begun. It’s hard for many politicos to imagine Hillary Clinton being content with “going back to private life and spending time reading, and writing, and maybe teaching, doing some personal …

Remember when Michael Bloomberg denied over and over that he was going to run for president in 2008 even as his field team conducted polls and surveys around the country? And how he said he only wanted to finish out his second and final (HAH!) term as NYC mayor? This week Bloomberg hired Hillary Clinton’s 2008 media strategist, setting off …

“That statute is not worded the way it should be. I said I regretted the vote later because it included things like cross-dressing, and a variety of other people involved in behaviors that weren’t based on sexual orientation, just a preference for the way they dressed and behaved. So it was overly broad. So if you are a third-grade teacher …

Just-resigned CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, who endeared himself to the right-wing with his regular rants against the brown hordes pouring across our southern border, says he’s had a change of heart and now supports amnesty for undocumented residents. Resentment has been burbling across the wingnut blogosphere ever since Dobbs told Spanish-language network Telemundo late last month that he wants a …

In the clip on the left, Glenn Beck says about a Palin/Beck ticket: “Beck-Palin, I’ll consider. But Palin-Beck — can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on! She’d be yapping or something, and I’d say, ‘I’m sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I’m not in the kitchen.'”

Sarah Palin’s fans have no idea what Palin actually stands for. As a YouTube commenter says, “This is equal parts hilarious and sad.”

Well, you knew he wasn’t quitting CNN for no damn reason. Less than two weeks after announcing his departure from the cable network—and following a series of interviews in which Dobbs encouraged speculation about his political plans—the anchorman known to fans as “Mr. Independent” finally made his presidential ambitions explicit on former Sen. Fred Thompson’s radio show Monday. Asked if …

Martha Stewart thinks Sarah Palin is “dangerous and boring.” It’s a good thing.

Fans of Sarah Palin staged a mini-revolt around her tour bus when they didn’t get to meet her during a book signing as they’d been promised. Funny stuff.

If you’re one those mentally ill “Gays For Palin,” you shouldn’t broadcast your queerness at one of her appearances. At a Barnes & Nobles in a mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan: Bob Weinert, 56, a fencing salesman from Lansing, said he’d heard Rush Limbaugh say recently that Palin is “the most conservative candidate out there.” She represents, he said, “limited …

And these people all have the right to vote.

I think I’m starting to have a Mary Hart reaction just from the sound of her voice.