Jon Huntsman our next Secretary of State?

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already stated that she will not continue in that post when President Obama is re-elected. Jon Huntsman has said a few things in recent interviews that were rather negative of the Republican Party as a whole and the group of Presidential candidates in 2012 in particular. Because Mr. Huntsman’s [...]

Scott Walker campaign spokesperson: “I would really love to punch Hillary Clinton in the face”

Image courtesy PolitiScoop

Meet Ciara Matthews (pictured, right). For those of you who weren’t aware, Matthews is the communications director for Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s gubernatorial recall campaign. Matthews previously worked on the campaigns of such infamous Republican politicians as Sharron “When Life Gives You Lemons, Just Make Rape Lemonade” Angle and former Nevada [...]

Eric Hovde is no Hillary Clinton – and he’s still a carpetbagger

Shorter Eric Hovde: “No seriously, I’m just like Hillary Clinton!” “I spent most, or significant number of holidays [there]. I’m back and forth between Wisconsin and D.C. nonstop. I’m a 20-year Badger season ticket holder. I go to every major Packer game,” he continued.

Got that Wisconsinites? Eric Hovde spends holidays, Badger games, and Packer [...]

An Open Letter to Christopher Mertes

Cross Posted @ Forwardlookout:

Christopher Mertes, managing editor and far right wing idealogue, of the Sun Prairie Star, recently wrote one of the most ridiculous editorials I have seen this side of Christian Schneider. In his editorial, Mertes accuses democrats of hate speech, based on a few different facebook pages and comments.

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Because This Will Drive Them Crazy!

This picture is simply too awesome not to share.  And that it will drive conservatives insane makes it double-plus awesome!

(h/t Ray Reynolds)

random thoughts and links…

1. Thanks to President Obama and the democratic congress we will now be able to feel safe when we eat. They recently passed the Food Safety Modernization Act. While the vote ended up unanimous in the Senate, the partisan hacks in the House voted almost on a party line. Luckily the democrats had the majority [...]

Congrats Chelsea BUT…….

Something is seriously wrong with our system. When we have very well paid government officials(the president makes $400,000 a year plus expenses, the governor of WI makes $136,000 yearly.) waiting until they get out of office so they can cash in. As Tommy Thompson so succinctly put it “”Everybody knows I was broke when I [...]

NRA Telephone Survey (Oct 2009)

This Sunday afternoon I received a phone call  from a woman asking if I would answer a one-question survey about the Second Amendment. I said, “yes”. The caller asked me to listen to a recorded comment by  Wayne LaPierre from the NRA.

(I may not have this exactly right and if any of you have [...]

Politics certainly makes for strange bedfellows…

In what has to be one of the strangest ideas I’ve ever read, a John Coale, a Washington-area Democratic donor and onetime adviser to Sarah Palin, urged Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to use her political action committee to help retire the presidential campaign debt of Hillary Clinton:

Coale, a wealthy trial attorney and the [...]

A few of the funniest ads of the 2008 presidential campaign

I know the 2008 presidential campaign is long over, but as I happened to be surfing the intertubes, I came across a few ads that I think were some of the funniest ones that aired:

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