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The Kentucky legislature has adjourned for the year without voting on a bill that would have allowed Sen. Rand Paul to appear twice on the 2016 ballot. Paul requested a change in state law so that he could retain his Senate seat while running for president. “In Kentucky, you ought to run for one office at a time,” Brian Wilkerson, …

Wingnuts are saying that Hillary Clinton planted that shoe-throwing woman in order to look more presidential. Because it happened to Dubya. Seriously. From a post on the website of Fox commentator Bernard Goldberg: There is a political axiom, I believe first posed by Euclid or Archimedes, that when Hillary does something, or when something happens to her, she has carefully …

After being spoofed as a Coachella DJ on Saturday Night Live, yesterday Sen. Rand Paul posted the above tweet then followed up with a dozen YouTube links to tracks by Avicii, Daft Punk, and LGBT allies Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis. Because he’s down, you guys. Also on the set list of DJ Rand Paul: Rush, the Police, Jefferson Airplane, Coolio, …

Last night 2016 presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee attacked President Obama for supporting gay marriage and questioned Obama’s Christianity. Mike Huckabee recently defended his position on gay marriage by saying it’s not homophobia to be on “the right side of the Bible.” Huckabee explained those remarks on The O’Reilly Factor Friday night, telling Laura Ingraham that his position is no different …

Huckabee was laying the groundwork for his next presidential bid yesterday and spoke before Iowa’s Faith & Freedom Coalition. Huckabee went on to refer to a review, rejected Monday by the Supreme Court, of a closely watched religious liberty appeal over a business owner’s right to deny services to gays and lesbians. The justices denied the petition of a New …

They’re going nuts over at Twitchy. It’s a good thing.

According to a poll of likely 2016 voters commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign, voters view gay people more favorably than they do evangelicals. Via the Huffington Post: On Thursday the Human Rights Campaign and Americans for Marriage Equality released the results of a study, entitled “Victory In Sight”, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and TargetPoint Consulting that investigated …

“I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues. The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to …

In preparation for his 2016 presidential bid, Sen. Rand Paul is pushing the Kentucky legislature to change state rules about appearing twice on the same ballot. A bill that would allow Sen. Rand Paul to appear on the Kentucky ballot twice — running both for re-election and for president in 2016 — passed a Senate Committee on Wednesday, but its …

Outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry opened today’s CPAC session with an eleven minute rant that got rantier and rantier as he ranted, in an obvious move to set the stage for his 2016 presidential bid. Start near the end at 10:00. And the crowd goes wild.

Listen to the crowd roar when she broke the news to University of Miami students last night.

“Two things that need to be done: Remind people (Clinton) is seeking to become commander in chief (and) how she has operated in the past with these types of responsibilities. She was in charge during the Benghazi debacle. If a person reads the Senate Intelligence (Committee) report and the House Foreign Affairs (Committee) report released (last) week, it is damning …

Yesterday New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo posted the above President’s Day trivia question, leading some to wonder if he was subtweeting about Hillary Clinton and his own potential bid for the presidency. A spokesman for Cuomo, who apparently doesn’t himself maintain his Twitter account, claims that the tweet was just a fun fact for the day. One political consultant doesn’t …

Mitt Romney was on Meet The Press today where he slammed Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal, which the right is resurrecting as Hillary’s run for president grows more likely. Romney: “He embarrassed the nation. He breached his responsibility, I think, as an adult and as a leader in his relationship. and I think that’s very unfortunate.”

Josh Feldman recaps: Mitt Romney joined Megyn Kelly on Thursday night to take on the continuing problems and delays with Obamacare. Kelly reminded viewers that Romney warned about the problems with the health care law as far back as 2012, and tonight Romney said that the “breach of that promise” that people could keep their doctors and plans if they …

“She would win hands down in my mind. I mean, if the media did their job and, um, presented each candidate on experience and their policy and their ideas – but that’s not the way it’s set up today. I mean, if she wants to, I will be behind her.” – Todd Palin, speaking to Inside Edition. Hit the link …

A WaPo-ABC poll released today shows Hillary Clinton leading other possible 2016 Democratic primary candidates by 61 points and higher. Poll watchers say this is the largest such lead ever seen at this distance from the election. Some Democrats are getting louder in their demand that Clinton officially state her intent as the window to properly organize behind other potential …

“I don’t wake up each day saying, ‘What am I going to do today to make this decision?’ I’m deferring the decision to the right time, which is later this year. And the decision will be based on ‘can I do it joyfully’ because I think we need to have candidates lift our spirits. It’s a pretty pessimistic country right …

Via Mediaite: During her Monday morning closing address at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named the September 2012 Benghazi attacks as her “biggest regret.” During her Monday morning closing address at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named the September 2012 …