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In a video essay posted today on Big Think, Andrew Sullivan muses “How Can Anyone Be Gay And Republican?” Here’s an excerpt. You know, I used to say, we have to stay in these parties because certainly gay people do not want to become a Democratic Party constituency that is totally taken for granted, which is, of course, what has …

FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver today takes aim at some of the polls crying doom and gloom for House Democrats previously thought to be safe, cautioning that the volume of losses may not be as bad as some fear. Many of the polls are either partisan-affiliated, or were “robopolls” that used automated scripts rather than live interviewers, or both. Polls with an …

In states with a 50% or more chance of flipping their governorships, elections prognosticator Nate Silver predicts that the vast majority of the changes will be in the GOP’s favor. (Although Florida’s race is still a statistical tie, it is listed at the top because current governor Charlie “Closet Case” Crist is technically an independent.)

Speaking to the Texas Tribune, former First Lady Laura Bush said that even though she fully supports LGBT rights, she never spoke up during her husband’s anti-gay campaigns. Because he was elected, not her. TT: Let’s talk a little bit about that responsibility. You found yourself back in the headlines not so long ago for taking positions on gay marriage …

Speaking to an quivering teabagger audience in Montgomery, Alabama, Sarah Palin said this: “I tell Bristol, I am texting her and say ‘Bristol’…and I wasn’t kidding, I thought that this was a practical thing to do…’How about if Todd and I we load up all the kids in our motorhome and drive down, park on Rodeo Drive and we come …

But Lauer is NOT having it.

But teabagger Barron can’t quite slam Paladino without comparing him to Democrat John Edwards. Still, we totally enjoy the teabagger vs. teabagger aspect of this entire mess. Gay activist Mike Rogers joins Schultz in the second half of this clip to properly frame Paladino’s position in the New York GOP, contrary to Barron’s claims.

It turns out that yesterday’s anti-gay speech by teabagger loon Carl Paladino was actually written by Rabbinical Alliance leader Rabbi Yehuda Levin, whose repulsive attacks on LGBT people have long been quoted on this blog. The remarks read in Borough Park by Paladino, who often speaks without prepared text, were written by Rabbi Yehuda Levin, an ardent opponent of gay …

Teabagger lunatic and New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl “Imprison The Poor” Paladino today said, “I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don’t want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option–it isn’t. There is nothing to …

The Republican Governors Association has begun running the below ad to promote their Remember November website and Facebook page. Among other items, the ad criticizes the vacation travel of Michele Obama and her redecorating of the White House.

“I hope all the queers are thrilled to see him. I am sure there will be a couple legislative fruitloops there in the audience.” – North Carolina state Rep. Larry Brown (R), in a mass email about Equality NC awarding its annual leadership prize to NC House Speaker Joe Hackney. Pam Spaulding reports that Equality NC will be mailing a …

The Citizens United propaganda film Fire From The Heartland (trailer here) edits an encounter between Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann to make it look like she totally pwned Treasure Secretary Tim Geithner. Here’s what really went down.

GetEQUAL has launched an internet campaign calling on its followers to “withhold time and money from political entities that are not fighting as hard for our equality as they are for our checkbooks.” We’re not the first ones to voice frustration with both Democrats and Republicans for holding our equality hostage (see here, here, and here). And we’re not going …

GOP Sen. Jim DeMint told a group of South Carolina pastors on Friday that “open homosexuals” and unmarried women should not be allowed to teach in public schools. In addition to reiterating anti-choice talking points on abortion and backing “traditional marriage,” according to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, the senator went further and “said if someone is openly homosexual, they shouldn’t be …

I just got off the phone with Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who said he was calling to personally apologize for the “All faggots must die” comment left here on JMG last Tuesday. I’ll paraphrase what Chambliss said to me, but reporters, please don’t excerpt any of this as his exact words. CHAMBLISS: “Joe, I don’t know if you’re Republican or Democrat, …

The audio is out of sync on this clip, which kinda only makes it better.