Tag: Republican Party
Did GOP Moderates Just Become Relevant?
Stephen Greenberg, a Democratic pollster and author of American Ascendant, writes, “Moderate Republicans will have the last word in this dramatic presidential election year.” Greenberg believes that moderates make up 31% of Republican party.
GOP On The Road to 1,000 Years of Darkness
Lindsay Graham continues to narrate the demise of the Republican Party. “If I were Obama I’d be nervous about the economy, but if I were Romney I’d be nervous about demographics,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told The Hill on Tuesday. “The economic condition of the nation cries out for a change in leadership, but when […]
Schwarzenegger to GOP: “Come with me if you want to live”
In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, Arnold Schwarzenegger calls on the Republican Party to be a more inclusive.
Republican Intransigence Caused by Income Inequality
If you haven’t read Paul Krugman’s column today, why not? I really don’t think I need to remind you do so.
A Document on the Decline of the Delaware GOP
If Priscilla Rakestraw’s going-away op-ed doesn’t show that she doesn’t understand what’s happening in the Republican Party, then nothing will.
Eric Cantor Seems To Want Tax The Poor
Eric Cantor isn’t exactly channeling the Dead Kennedys, but he sure seems to want to tax the poor.
Saving The Republicans From Themselves
I took a lot of ribbing (some of it good natured, most of it not) that we should rebuild the Delaware Republican Party. My solution was an Open Primary. Charlie Pierce over at Esquire has a better idea.
Study: Republicans HAVE Gotten More Conservative
Surprise, right? Except this time it is backed up by political science research that shows pretty clearly the steady rightward shift of the GOP. Look at this graph (click for a larger version):
Cantor Exacts His Revenge
Is the Party of the Failed Confederate States beginning to thin its ranks?
Tea Party Teabagging the GOP
When a group is founded solely on the hatred towards one man and the media stops reporting on the group’s idiotic rantings, it turns out that the Tea Party is actually beginning to harm the Republican Party.
Tom Corbett Hates Poor People
Why is it that rethuglican elected officials hate poor people? It seems as though Tom Corbett, who usually scurries away from television cameras like a cockroach when the lights come on, has begun a war on Pennsylvania’s poor. Republican Gov. Tom Corbett has announced a major assault on the food stamp program that feeds 1.8 […]
Virginia GOP Officially Becomes Autocratic
I always love hearing the Fatman and that other RWNJ on WDEL spout off about how Democrats and Liberals are nothing but a bunch of socialists and “fellow travelers.” Apparently they haven’t been paying attention to the Virginia Republican Party.
The Virginia GOP has declared that anyone who wants to vote in the Presidential primary must sign a loyalty oath. Yes, you read that correctly, you must swear allegiance to the GOP and cross your heart and hope to die that you will vote for whomever the GOP presidential nominee is.
Fear of a Black Republican
This is the name of a documentary movie by film maker Kevin Williams that is screening now at Theater N in Wilmington. I went to the 11Am screening of this movie, presented by the filmmaker and his co-producer wife in person — both of them engaging the audience in a lively Q&A afterwards.
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