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A quick trip around the political ‘loons’
This is a cross-post from Howie’s Corner
I had to laugh when I read this mornings edition of The Times. It seems that allies of the Prime Minister David Cameron have finally recognised that a lot of Tory activists are “mad, swivel-eyed loons”. That’s not going to win the PM and his chums many friends amongst [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2013 under The Left, The Right.
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Talk of armed revolution in the US shifts from the Left to the Right
Headlining a National Rifle Association rally in Houston, Glenn “Too Crazy Even for Fox News” Beck compared New York City’s Jewish mayor Michael Bloomberg to a Nazi (complete with a Photoshopped picture of him wearing an armband and giving a fascist salute).
Also in Houston the NRA elected James Porter, an Alabama attorney, as its new [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2013 under Stateside, The Right.
Close contest
Steve Stockman is challenging Louie Gohmert for the title of Most Cringe-Inducing Republican Member of Congress from Texas (there’s quite a lot of competition).
Our campaign bumper sticker: If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted. stockman2014.com #gosnell #tcot twitter.com/ReElectStockma…
— Rep. Steve Stockman (@ReElectStockman) April 12, 2013
Now if only he had found a way to work [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2013 under Stateside, The Right.
Thatcher would be too far left for today’s Republicans
It’s a sign of how far the Republican party’s center of gravity has shifted to the Right in recent years that the liberal Think Progress website can make a convincing case that a candidate with Margaret Thatcher’s beliefs would have a slim chance of getting anywhere in today’s GOP.
If Margaret Thatcher– rather than Al Gore– [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2013 under The Right.
Paul to CPAC 2013: Like, get off our backs, man
Sounding (and dressing) like a goddamn hippie, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington that the feds need to chill out.
“The GOP of old has grown stale and moss covered. I don’t think we need to name any names, do we?”
“The new GOP will need to embrace [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2013 under Stateside, The Right.
Tories and UKIP After Eastleigh
This is a cross post by Phil at A Very Public Sociologist
UKIP may well be “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” but they’re also riding high after last night’s by-election result. Farage must be kicking himself for not standing as just 1,800 votes separated his party (and it is his party) from the hapless LibDems. With his profile, [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2013 under Cross Post, The Right, Tories.
Did Republicans lose the culture war?
Since losing in November to Barack Obama a second time, Republicans have been engaging in some navel-gazing and hand-wringing (practices usually associated with Democrats).
One of the more interesting and honest of these exercises was undertaken recently by Matt K. Lewis, who wrote:
Late last year, I criticized the notion that Barack Obama won re-election by buying [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2013 under Stateside, The Right.
The Right vs. the cops
I can remember a time when the primary concern of the political Right in America was “law and order”– or rather the lack thereof. Conservatives treated law enforcement officers with respect sometimes verging on reverence. They considered the police a “thin blue line” standing between civilization and rampant criminality, and they didn’t seem overly concerned [...]
Posted: January 4th, 2013 under Guns, The Right.
This means war
Metaphorically, of course.
A remarkable post-election video from the PAC of the conservative Heritage Foundation:
Posted: November 9th, 2012 under The Right, Vote 2012.
Atlas Shrugged Part II
If you missed “Atlas Shrugged Part I” (as apparently a lot of people did), you’ll surely want to miss “Atlas Shrugged Part II.”
Posted: October 12th, 2012 under The Right.