Teabagistan

Mike Huckabee has been flailing about in recent weeks, desperate to break through the Trump media juggernaut. Today he’s grabbed onto the mild controversy over Ted Cruz’ comments to a pro-gay major GOP donor. So far Teabagistan is mostly uninterested in the Cruz flap and surely they don’t care about Huckabee’s reaction either.

Via Politico: In June, Ted Cruz promised on NPR that opposition to gay marriage would be “front and center” in his 2016 campaign. In July, he said the Supreme Court’s decision allowing same-sex marriage was the “very definition of tyranny” and urged states to ignore the ruling. But in December, behind closed doors at a big-dollar Manhattan fundraiser, the quickly …

Donald Trump holds a formidable 21-point lead in a new national CNN/ORC poll released today. Details: Donald Trump seems set to end 2015 as the dominant force in the race for next year’s Republican nomination for president, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz now a clear — yet distant — second after a strong debate performance, a new CNN/ORC poll released …

CNN reports: Donald Trump took to Twitter Tuesday to defend using the word “schlonged” to describe Hillary Clinton’s primary loss in 2008, saying the word is “not vulgar.” “Once again, #MSM is dishonest. ‘Schlonged’ is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got ‘schlonged’ that meant beaten badly,” he said in one tweet. He then attacked the mainstream media, MSM for …

We knew this was coming. Via the Louisville Courier-Journal: In one of his first major acts in office, Gov. Matt Bevin issued a series of executive orders Tuesday to remove the names of county clerks from marriage licenses in Kentucky and halt efforts by former Gov. Steve Beshear to restore voting rights to certain felons who have completed their sentences. …

South Carolina GOP state Rep. Bill Chumley has pre-filed a 2016 bill that aims to “nullify” the US Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. From the right-wing New American site: In an effort to protect the traditional definition of marriage within South Carolina, the bill states that “It is the policy of the State of South Carolina to defend natural …

For the second year in a row, Fox News has aired The Todd Starnes All-American Christmas. This year’s show featured several dozen barefoot children in overalls paying tribute to White Jesus on their fiddles. For real. Watch below if you can bear it.

Tina Fey returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend to renew her famed impression of Sarah Palin. Today Palin returns the favor in a video from the group that gave us Ted Cruz frying bacon on a gun and Lindsey Graham destroying his cell phone in a blender. Via Mediaite: Palin stars in the newest IJR video in a parody …

Via the Washington Post: Donald Trump used vulgar language as he attacked Hillary Clinton during a rally on Monday night, saying her use of the restroom at the last Democratic debate was “too disgusting” to talk about and that in 2008 she got “schlonged” by Barack Obama when he defeated her in the Democratic primary. Standing before a crowd of …

“He’s the last hope for America. We don’t hear anybody saying what he’s saying. In fact, most of the people who ought to be lining up with him are attacking him. They’re probably jealous of the amount of press coverage he gets. But the reason he gets so much press coverage is the grassroots are fed up with people who …

Marco Rubio doesn’t like being called a “bigot” just because he wants to rescind civil rights for LGBT Americans. Via Pink News: Rubio is very upset that just because he plans to systematically dismantle gay people’s right to marry and work without being discriminated against, people think he’s some kind of bigot. He told CBS’s Face the Nation: “People who …

Over the weekend Ted Cruz launched a campaign ad which invites you to attend rallies on his “Country Christmas Tour” which concludes Thursday. This clip has everything: kissing babies, kissing dogs, cowboy boots, Furkels, and hey – isn’t that Herman Cain? Watch below.

This is part of NBC’s equal time settlement following Trump’s hosting of SNL. More from CBS: Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is planning to air a parody commercial in Iowa during “Saturday Night Live,” just weeks before the nation’s first nominating contest in the state. “In the spirit of the upcoming holiday we are excited to bring a Cruz family …

Todd Starnes today announced that he’s left the Republican Party, presumably because they failed to defund Planned Parenthood. Earlier today both chambers of Congress overwhelmingly approved a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill that appropriates about $500M to Planned Parenthood – the full amount requested by Democrats.

This morning Donald Trump floored MSNBC’s Morning Joe team when host Joe Scarborough asked him about Vladimir Putin’s reputation as a strongman who has journalists killed. Business Insider has the transcript: “Sure, when people call you ‘brilliant’ it’s always good. Especially when the person heads up Russia,” Trump told cohost Mika Brzezinski when asked about Putin praising him as “very …

“At what point in Donald Trump’s inaugural address do you figure the GOP establishment will finally grasp what’s been happening? The establishment — not “elites,” because they’re mostly bland functionaries who went to third-rate schools — have thrown absolutely everything they have at Trump. I’ve never seen so many Republicans featured on MSNBC. “At least no one will be able …

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Sarah Palin to respond with one or two words when given the names of presidential candidates from both parties. If you listen closely you can hear Palin’s tens of brain cells smashing into each other over and over as she struggles to come up with something.

At last night’s debate and again in the interviews that followed, Donald Trump appeared to unequivocally rule out an independent run. CNN reports: Donald Trump committed Tuesday to not running for president as an independent — an idea he has floated in the past — during the CNN hosted Republican debate. Trump said Thursday that he is “totally committed to the …

For the fifth consecutive time, Donald Trump has won the Drudge Report‘s post-GOP debate poll. The four bottom candidates (Christie, Kasich, Fiorina, Bush) each earned 1-2% of the votes.