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By: How 25 Years of Gay Activism in Hollywood Has Paid Off

How 25 Years of Gay Activism in Hollywood Has Paid Off — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:08:07 +0000

[...] hopes of keeping North Carolina in the mix of battleground states where the GOP has to spend money. http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives…-events-in-nc/ Others have suggested Obama’s concerns are bigger than that. The Hotline’s Josh [...]

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» Blog Archive » Why Team Obama dodges gay rights issues — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:43:16 +0000

[...] Yesterday, I opined in passing that Obama was backing off in hopes of keeping North Carolina in the mix of battleground states where the GOP has to spend money. Others have suggested Obama’s concerns are bigger than that. The Hotline’s Josh Kraushaar suggested Obama’s gay rights kabuki is more about the Rust Belt than North Carolina and Virginia, asserting that Obama has a much better shot at winning white votes in the former region than the latter. Kraushaar tweeted this shows Obama is still playing for Ohio and Pennsylvania, casting doubt on the VA/NC model. He believes it shows that Obama’s path to reelection remains challenging, because it relies on getting votes from working-class whites who oppose same sex marriage. [...]

By: John Hitchcock

John Hitchcock — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:52:02 +0000

Please note there’s a new LA Slimes article declaring a Mourdock win is a Democrat win. Oh, by the way, that LA Slimes article doesn’t talk about the TEA Party. It doesn’t talk about the tea party. But it does talk about the “tea party”.

In case you’re wondering, click on my trackback at the top of the comment section.

By: TEA Party Wins Equal Democrat Wins « Truth Before Dishonor

TEA Party Wins Equal Democrat Wins « Truth Before Dishonor — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:38:56 +0000

[...] aside, albeit a very important one, Karl, who writes for both Patterico’s Pontifications and Hot Air, absolutely destroyed the media-appointed “Conservative” Peggy Noonan. You MUST read [...]

By: teejk

teejk — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:46:39 +0000

search4truth on May 8, 2012 at 3:21 PM

Good! I dragged the wife to the polls today to cast a vote for Walker. Probably was a waste of gas since he is running against a professional protestor (I think the #1 industry in Madison) but when I realized how Obamatuer got elected it reminded me that every vote counts (especially here where the left gets to vote as many times as they want to).

Now to your reference to the NRA, I have to say if everybody voted according to their ratings we would be in much better shape than we are now. Gun rights go much further in ideology than just guns.

By: search4truth

search4truth — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:21:43 +0000

Just did my part to vote DICK out! In with more of those “extremist, racist, bigoted, hates-puppies-and-butterflies Tea Partiers” that want to uphold and defend the Constitution.

Peggy also seems to miss the fact that Lugar has been given an F by the NRA for defense of our 2nd Amendment. And how about rubber stamping all those liberal judges that consistently try and rewrite the Constitution. That may have more to do with it than his age there, Peggy.

By: teejk

teejk — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:46:30 +0000

Sterling Holobyte on May 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Walker’s opponent in the primary is indeed a fake (I think he does clown parties when he isn’t protesting something) but is there supposedly to keep republicans from voting on the dem ticket to try to impact who faces Walker next month in the general election. Most likely he is a big Falk supporter since she is a fellow “comrade” from Dane County and has the endorsements from all the big labor unions but I think the Dem opponent is already known and it won’t be Falk…she’s so far left that shes in a different time zone.

By: jon1979

jon1979 — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:41:08 +0000

For someone who wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan, and whose ability to profit from her writing ability for the past quarter century has come in large part due to her connection to Ronald Reagan, Ms. Noonan really doesn’t understand the appeal of Reagan and why voters sent him to Washington (by which time Dick Lugar already was four years into his first Senate term, BTW).

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:16:07 +0000

mrt721 on May 8, 2012 at 1:13 PM

Don’t have to click. Love me some R. Dean Taylor (as does Jonah Goldbeg, oddly enough).

By: mrt721

mrt721 — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:13:24 +0000

Please mentally underscore that Lugar apparently no longer has a home in Indiana,

But, Indiana wants him…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZL_tZxyBDo

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:57:13 +0000

Shame on me for skipping WI. My quick take would be that it says something about the Left that the recalls started out being a protest against union reforms, but have ended up not really being about the union reforms.

By: letget

letget — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:49:08 +0000

sammypants on May 8, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Good luck getting rid of the d’s and union thugs in WI! I hope Walker and the others are voted back in. You state will sure help other states keep the union thugs from doing the same thing in their states if the d’s and unions thugs/gobs of money spent loose?
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By: Bitter Clinger

Bitter Clinger — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:36:54 +0000

So if I read that right, Peggy Noonan wants to change the status quo….by keeping the status quo.

By: sammypants

sammypants — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:15:34 +0000

Sterling Holobyte on May 8, 2012 at 12:00 PM

I just got back from the primary. I was ballot number 21 in a downtown Madison polling place. I was shocked that more people were not out voting for their candidate in the dem primary.

By: Sterling Holobyte

Sterling Holobyte — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:06 +0000

Don’t forget the primary in Wisconsin!
We need people to vote for Walker as the dems have a fake republican on the ballot, hoping to keep Walker out of the running for the general election in June.
This race is important, not only for Wisconsin, but for the nation, as the union bosses and their allies(dems) will either be feeling emboldened or feeling deflated depending on the outcome going into the presidential election.