Anti-Gay Homophobe Rev. George Rekers Caught with Rentboy “Julien”

For those of you not following it, we have yet another case of right wing religious hypocrisy a.l.a. Ted Haggard, Larry Craig or countless other “anti-gay” redeemers who have made one of their life missions to attack the very thing they deny in themselves, that they are gay or at least love male sex. Family man and Reverend George Rekers who co-founded the Family Research Council with James Dobson, espouses gay conversion therapy as a board member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuals (NARTH) and is a regular consultant to anti-gay initiatives around the country; was revealed to have hired an escort for a ten day trip to Europe. [...]

Teabaggers get riled up over term they coined for their movement

The Teabaggers seem to be having a problem with the term that they coined to describe their conservative protest movement. Somewhere along the line they seem to have learned the slang definition for “teabagging” and are now going on the attack against the use of this term, that even their compatriots in America’s usually loony right wing (see the National Review Online article), acknowledge to be one that they themselves coined for their movement. [...]

Mark Honadel is STOKED UP!

After what seems like an eternity of wrangling, it appears an interchange at Drexel Avenue and I-94 in Oak Creek will be built in 2012, and State Rep. Mark Honadel (R-South Milwaukee) is STOKED: “I am just stoked up to no end because it’s going to be good for the region,” he said. “The potential [...]

But when’s it gonna get really nasty?

As xoff notes, the Republican gubernatorial primary is getting personal, as evidenced by a report from the Wisconsin College Republicans convention:

It was exciting to hear Mark direct his speech specifically to fellow college students. To illustrate, Mark spoke about the importance of finishing one’s education as well as the fact that College Republicans are [...]

No tempest in the “TEA” pot

Rachel Maddow breaks down the impact (or relative lack thereof) the Tea Party movement had on several recent primaries across the nation:

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Wall declines debate, then agrees, then declines

Seriously, this guy needs to make up his mind: Multimillionaire real estate magnate Terrence Wall followed in the footsteps of former Democratic Commerce Secretary Dick Leinenkugel Wednesday, backing out of Republican primary debate this Saturday.

The event organizers, Republican Women of the North, posted on their Facebook page Wednesday, “We now received word that Wall [...]