Walls Crumbling Down

The absolute worst nightmare of diehard defenders of “don’t ask, don’t tell” has become reality: They’re now fighting the Pentagon, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Read more

Steve Schmidt Endorses Gay Marriage

Top McCain adviser Steve Schmidt made a surprisingly ringing endorsement of same-sex marriage in a speech to the Log Cabin Republicans: Read more

A Question for Sarah Palin

You’d have to be living under the same rock as Osama Bin Ladin not to have heard the recent attacks by the McCain/Palin campaign calling Barack Obama’s economic and tax policies socialist. Read more

Reasons Not to Vote for McCain

A lot of people think that this is just another presidential race, with the winner getting to bring their own particular ideas and policies to the table, but that little else will change. But that’s not true. Read more

A Republican Gift to America

Freddie Mac secretly paid a Republican consulting firm $2 million to kill legislation that would have regulated and trimmed the mortgage finance giant and its sister company, Fannie Mae, three years before the government took control to prevent their collapse. Read more

GOP Needs New Followers

I immediately realized that the McCain/Palin folks were having a little meeting….I sat down at the table next to the group just as they were starting their meeting. Read more

Powell Backs Obama

Powell, who said he has been troubled by the judgments John McCain has displayed during the last few weeks of this campaign (particularly his choice of Governor Sarah Palin as running mate and his lack of clarity on the economy) said his decisions were made in the last months and weeks. Read more

An Open Letter to McCain

Senator John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence. Read more

Conservative Buckley Backs Obama

“This campaign has changed John McCain,” Buckley wrote. “It has made him inauthentic. A once-first class temperament has become irascible and snarly; his positions change, and lack coherence; he makes unrealistic promises, such as balancing the federal budget ‘by the end of my first term.’ Who, really, believes that? Read more

You Go Girl!

he Republicans fight dirty…they take every opportunity to shift the political conversation from substance to frivolity. They don’t want the public to see the huge differences between the two parties. Read more

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