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Ay que bitchy! The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has created the same ad for more a dozen other GOP candidates.

Former Massachusetts state Sen. Richard Tisei wants to be the first (*non-incumbent) openly gay Republican elected to Congress. Tisei, whose campaign issues page makes no mention of LGBT causes [Updated correction below], has been endorsed by the Victory Fund. But this is Massachusetts, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1. Few places in the state are as Democratic as Lynn, …

Garsh, what do you suppose it says?

CNN speculates: Beth Myers, the woman leading Mitt Romney’s running mate search, tweeted a list of names on Friday–all of whom have been speculated as potential VP picks. The tweets come as a surprising post for a campaign that has been strictly tight-lipped about its search process. Romney has repeatedly said only he and Myers were the two who knew …

Kleenex alert!

The Romney campaign is encouraging people to download the above sign for placement in the businesses “they built.” The festering egg on the face of this nonsense, of course, is that the guy featured in Romney’s “We Built This” ad actually created his business with federal loans to the tune of a couple of million dollars.

“With five straight years of $1 Trillion-plus deficits to the anti-God mayor of Boston discriminating against successful Christian businesses like Chik-Fil-A for standing up for God’s definition of marriage, these are reasons for every American to affirm our covenant with God. George Washington, John Adams and John Jay made the USA’s Christian laws based on the Holy Bible. Americans can’t …

My buddy!

“He sure knows how to go for the gold. For himself.”

“The more context you get, the worse it sounds.”

Posted to the Obama campaign’s YouTube channel.

Slog blogger Eli Sanders: For Referendum 74, the vote on whether or not to uphold Washington’s new gay marriage law, Elway sees voter confusion messing up the results. Some 52 percent of respondents support same-sex marriage rights, but only 49 percent say they’ll vote to “approve” R-74. Which suggests that a lot of gay rights supporters don’t understand that voting …

Novice Brooklyn politician Mindy Meyer, who’s using the above Jersey Shore-tinged campaign slogan, says she is the “first young Orthodox Jewish woman to ever run for the New York Senate.” Meyer has been endorsed by the state GOP and the virulently anti-gay Conservative Party, which opposed and has since sued to overturn marriage equality. NOM has backed other Orthodox Jews …

(Tipped by JMG reader Syd.)

“Because the rich are different from you and me, many of them are incredibly self-centered. They don’t even see how funny it is — how ridiculous they look — when they attribute the weakness of a $15 trillion economy to their own hurt feelings. After all, who’s going to tell them? They’re safely ensconced in a bubble of deference and …