TIME Magazine reports: The Republican National Committee’s resolutions committee quietly rejected a pair of resolutions critical of homosexuality Wednesday. The first resolution, introduced by embattled Michigan national committeeman Dave Agema, would have encouraged “schools that are teaching the homosexual lifestyle in their sexual education class also include the harmful physical aspects of the lifestyle.” The second, which would have encouraged …
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RNC To Vote On Anti-Gay Resolutions
The Republican National Committee is set to vote on two anti-gay resolutions, one of which was proposed by former Michigan state Rep. Dave Agema, who now sits on the committee. Via the Washington Blade: If the RNC were to adopt any of the non-binding resolutions next week, it would be the first official act of the Republican Party on the …
Read More »RNC Chair Reince Priebus Pleads With Donald Trump: You’re Hurting The GOP
Via the Washington Post: The head of the Republican National Committee, responding to demands from increasingly worried party leaders, spent nearly an hour Wednesday on the phone with Donald Trump, urging the presidential candidate to tone down his inflammatory comments about immigration that have infuriated a key election constituency. The call from Chairman Reince Priebus, described by donors and consultants …
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PFAW Slams RNC Over AFA-Paid Trip To Israel For Dozens Of GOP Legislators
GOP Attacks “Lame Duck” Obama
RNC Posts Letter To Santa From Hillary
Embiggen to read the assholery.
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Reince Priebus Takes Victory Lap
“America is tired of Obama’s failed policies.”
Read More »RNC Launches 2016 Straw Poll
The Republican National Committee has launched an online 2016 presidential straw poll in which one can vote for three candidates IF contact details are also provided. Among the 32 choices in the GOP clown car: Sarah Palin, Allen West, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Frothy Mix, Herman Cain, and Ron Paul.
Read More »The GOP Is Selling This Bumper Sticker
As to what Romney was right about, exactly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee does not say.
Read More »New From The GOP Squirrel
Can this squirrel thing get any more bizarre?
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Hillary Meets With RNC Squirrel, Gives Him A Signed Copy Of Her New Book
As I reported on Monday, the GOP is following Hillary Clinton around on her book tour with a giant squirrel sports mascot who is handing out bumper stickers that read, “Another Clinton In The White House Is Nuts.” Yesterday Clinton confronted the squirrel to hand him a signed copy of her book. He thanked her on Twitter.
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NEVADA: Tony Perkins Cheers After Las Vegas Withdraws Its Bid To Host The 2016 Republican Convention
One month after the Nevada GOP dropped opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion from its platform, the Republican National Committee announced this afternoon that Las Vegas has withdrawn its bid to host the 2016 convention. Heidi Hayes, spokeswoman for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, said timing played a big role in the decision to withdraw the bid. “After …
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SCOTUS Rules That Limits On Total Campaign Donations Are Unconstitutional
The US Supreme Court today ruled that limits on total individual campaign donations are unconstitutional, effectively giving the nation’s mega-wealthy even more power over election results. The ruling comes in the long-festering McCutcheon Vs Federal Elections Commission case. The justices ruled 5-4, in a decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that limits on the total amount of money donors …
Read More »RNC Launches Millennial Outreach
Alex Pareene rips into it at Salon: It’s easy to laugh at Republican millennial outreach efforts, because all millennial outreach efforts by institutions run by rich old people are invariably hilarious and insulting, but at least this one has a guy who does look like a normal young (college educated, white, well-off) urbanite. It’s not one of these guys. Scott …
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