When you look at this administration, I’m offended by Eric Holder and the President also, their posture. It looks like Eric Holder said that white people in America are cowards when it comes to race. And I don’t know what the basis of that is but I’m not a coward when it comes to that and I’m happy to talk about these things and I think we should. But the President has demonstrated that he has a default mechanism in him that breaks down the side of race - on the side that favors the black person.

For at least six years in the 1990s before she held statewide elective office, Angle was a member of the little-known Independent American Party, a right-wing party that combines elements of Ron Paul’s doctrinaire libertarianism — pro-gun, anti-tax, anti-bureaucracy, pro-states’ rights — with Christian social conservatism and fear of the “North American Union” and other forms of “global government.” The small party attracted considerable controversy in 1994 when it took out a newspaper ad titled “Consequences of Sodomy: Ruin of a Nation,” which suggested HIV could spread through the water.

Other than that, she’s just a common sense conservative, if by common sense conservative, you mean someone who makes Rand Paul look like Jerry Garcia.

We are proud to announce that Generation Blue is wading back into the battle for our future with an event for U.S. Senate candidate and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan.  The required contribution is $150; however, substantial discounts remain available for public servants, recent graduates and students.   Donate here if you would like to donate another amount or as part of our Partners program.

You may recognize the Carnahan name, Robin’s father was legendary Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, who tragically died in a plane crash while running against then Senator John Ashcroft and still went on to win the race with his seat being filled by his wife, and Robin’s mother, Jean Carnahan.  We think Secretary Carnahan is a far better choice for our future than Tom Delay’s former chief lieutenant, Roy Blunt.

Until the event, this announcement will remain at the top of our page, but just scroll down to read regular updates of our blog.

“We need a good Christian to be our governor,” he said. “She’s hiding her religion. She ought to be proud of it. I’m proud of my god.”

Knotts says he believes Haley’s father has been sending letters to India saying that Haley is the first Sikh running for high office in America. He says her father walks around Lexington wearing a turban.

“We’re at war over there,” Knotts said.

Asked to clarify, he said he did not mean the United States was at war with India, but was at war with “foreign countries.”

This was after he had referred to her, as well as the President, as a “f#$%ing raghead.”  Knotts later apologized if anyone took offense, noting the comments were, “in jest.”  Perhaps Nikki Haley should take that tack and claim she slept with those two guys in jest.

It is very interesting that with the mounting evidence that Nikki Haley had these extra-marital affairs, this statesman is still stuck on the fact that she wasn’t born a white Christian.   And while we’re on this, today’s news is that Jenny Sanford is standing behind Haley, on the grounds that it was an Argentinian woman, and not Haley, who had an affair with Sanford’s husband, Governor Mark Sanford.

By the way, we want our readers to know, that when we say Jake Knotts is a mentally feeble racist, we mean it “in jest.”  (actually we don’t).   This has been all the news about Republican politics we can stomach for today, everyone have a nice weekend.

This is another example of Fiorina’s incompetence as a CEO only being exceeded by her gross incompetence as a politician, because while every candidate plays to the party base in a primary knowing they will have to tack to the mainstream afterwards during the general, could not be a more artless was to do it than this.  This isn’t advocating on an issue that is important to conservatives and no one else, like say property rights, or school vouchers, or repealing the 16th amendment, or the 17th amendment, or even the fourth, fifth or six amendments, or attacking trial lawyers, or just being steadfast on upper income tax cuts.  This is taking a clear, memorable position on an issue that will quite predictably offend her swing voters, who are more upscale Californian suburbanites.  It sends a signal to every educated voter with a higher income looking for better management, which is Fiorina’s (and Whitman’s) ENTIRE electoral rationale, that Fiorina is not a sophisticated manager who they can trust, but a buffoon or a cynic who plays to the same social conservatives that Californians have been too scared to elect to anything statewide in over 15 years- and due to demographics and the politics of immigration, won’t for decades to come. 

If we were Barbara Boxer’s campaign staff, we’d pay to run these ads ourselves.  The stunning thing about this ad is that it is entirely an unforced error.  Fiorina’s way up in the primary polls, she didn’t need to go this far.  She could have run a smarter, dog-whistle ad that no one would want to bother talking about in the fall.  Or she could have just stood pat: Tom Campbell (himself a fairly incompetent politician), can’t even afford to stay on the air. 

Haven’t we learned yet that having been a CEO is not prime facie evidence of competence, especially when the former CEO in question has been fired?

The label [strategic lawsuit against public participation, or Slapp] has traditionally referred to meritless defamation suits filed by businesses or government officials against citizens who speak out against them. The plaintiffs are not necessarily expecting to succeed — most do not — but rather to intimidate critics who are inclined to back down when faced with the prospect of a long, expensive court battle. . . . Many states have anti-Slapp laws, and Congress is considering legislation to make it harder to file such a suit. The bill, sponsored by Representatives Steve Cohen of Tennessee and Charlie Gonzalez of Texas, both Democrats, would create a federal anti-Slapp law, modeled largely on California’s statute.