Category Archives: Republicans

Dogwhistling

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The Spin Cycle blog at Newsday does some research, after talking with McCain’s campaign about their latest “Celebrity” ad: Sex celebs: Why Britney and Paris? …They said they thought the ad was legitimate because Obama is a big celebrity…and Britney and Paris were Number 2 and 3. The problem: Anyone with even a vague sense of pop culture knows that Britney and Paris are yesterday’s news. Here’s a link to Forbes’ Celebrity 100. Paris and Britney don’t even make the list any more. …So, they didn’t pick other big celebrities, who were either men, or black, or married. What they … Continue reading →

Not Gonna Happen

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From today’s Washington Post, in an article titled Evangelicals Lukewarm Towards GOP Field: “There is a great deal of angst about who will come forward and be electable, and also close to the social views and moral views we believe in,” Page said. This is why they haven’t yet settled behind Huckabee, or a main reason anyway. They want their values, but they want even more to win, to believe that they can force their values on the rest of us. The problem they face is that the majority of this country simply doesn’t agree with the extreme views of … Continue reading →