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The List II: Michele Bachmann

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Everybody knows someone like Michele Bachmann. The “Tall Tale” teller, the “Everyone’s out to get you” paranoid, or the Bible-thumper that [...]

The List II: Newt Gingrich

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. This weeks “List” tackles former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. I’ve made no secret of my distaste for the former Speaker [...]

The List II: Mitt Romney

REMINDER: Be sure to check out our Lists of Reasons NOT to vote for each of the GOP presidential candidates. Continually updated throughout the year. See the “ELECTION 2012″ links in the right-hand column. Welcome to our first installment of “The List II”: An archive of links to comments, stated policies/agendas, misconduct, hypocrisy or just [...]

“The List” is returning: Mugsy’s Master List of Reasons to NOT Vote for Each GOP Candidate, all December long.

Back in October of 2010, I posted “The List”: A list of 101 Reasons Why the GOP Should Not Be Allowed to Regain Control. “The List” was very popular, and (I’d like to think) played a part in preventing over a half-dozen of the most radical teanut ideologues from winning their respective races (Angle, Miller, Fiorina, [...]

Gingrich, who once called Obama “insensitive” to unemployed, tells OWS to “take a bath and get a job.”

Of the current eight GOP presidential candidates, I don’t think I loath any of them more than I loath Newt Gingrich. Partly because he’s been around the longest, but mostly because I know of no one that can be both SO SMUG and SO WRONG at the same time. And it wouldn’t be so bad if the Wingnut [...]

And the Winner Is: A fun, completely unscientific, non-partisan prediction of the 2012 presidency

I tried to watch the Saturday night GOP debate on “Foreign Policy”. I really did. I watched the Wednesday night debate on the economy, as well as Perry’s now infamous brain-freeze, but asking me to sit through another pointless mind-numbing exercise in futility just three days later was asking too much. I started to watch, [...]

History Professor Newt Gets It Wrong Again. (UPDATED)

I love listening to former history professor Newt Gingrich lecture others about “history” because… as I’ve pointed out before… he gets it wrong so often. And not just “wrong”, but 100% BACKWARDS wrong. He did so again during last nights’ CNBC GOP debate in Rochester, Michigan:     Gingrich, in an answer regarding the “Occupy [...]

The Hypocrisy of Cain Playing The Race Card

Quick, somebody ask Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Anthony Weiner and Arnold Schwarzenegger if the Media’s obsession with political sex scandals are based on race. A third fourth fifth woman has now stepped forward to accuse Cain of sexual misconduct back when he ran the “National Restaurant Association” in the 1990′s (fun-fact: the case against Cain [...]

Halloween Frights: A few of the scariest images I’ve seen this year.

The year isn’t yet over, but we’ve already seen a lot of scary stuff this past year. Here are some of the most frightening images that stand out in my mind:   $6 dollar gasoline:   Teanuts don’t need no stinkin’ Halloween to play dress-up & make complete fools of themselves:   Sometimes, facts are [...]

Sour Grapes Make for Bitter Whine.

After news broke that Kadafi/Kadaffi/Qadafi/Qaddaffi/Gaddafi/whatever had been captured and killed by Libyan rebels Friday afternoon, if was only natural for everyone to wonder just how the GOP Presidential Candidates would spin yet another foreign policy coup for President Obama. These were, after all, some of his harshest critics. Michele Bachmann said that getting us involved in [...]

Was Perry’s “jobs plan” really only his “energy policy”? No one seems to know. And with good reason.

On Friday, the Perry campaign released a copy of the candidate’s “Jobs Plan”… or did he? No one seems to be able to agree on that one simple point. The Perry website (no link. You know where) still refers to it as a “plan to create 1.2 million jobs”. Fox News Sunday yesterday referred to it as his [...]

EARLY EDITION: Perry’s “Jobs” Plan by the numbers. I hope you like oil.

EARLY EDITION Rick Perry finally released his “Energizing American Jobs and Security” plan Friday (click here to download from me w/o having to give the Perry campaign your email address). 40 pages long (plus a cover page), Perry’s “jobs” plan is focused ENTIRELY on “energy” production. Ditto when it comes to “security”. In fact, Perry’s plan is SO singularly [...]