In email, GOP chairman calls black Congressional candidate a "street walker" from "Sh*tcago"

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Thursday June 20, 2013 · 7:42 AM PDT

2013/06/20 · 07:42

It's always instructive when Republicans let their true feelings show.

Erika Harold is a Harvard-educated lawyer running in the GOP primary for Illinois CD-13 against incumbent Congressman Rodney Davis. Harold, a former Miss America, is the daughter of an African-American mother and a Caucasian father. On Tuesday, Jim Allen -- the Chairman of the Montgomery County, Illinois, Republican Party and a member of Davis' campaign team -- sent an email attacking Harold in some of the most vile terms imaginable. The full text appears below the orange croissant of doom, and it's not for the faint of heart.

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Tuesday October 23, 2012 · 6:24 PM PDT

2012/10/23 · 18:24

Mitt Romney’s debate performance last night should disqualify him from the Presidency. Certainly it demonstrated that he does not take seriously, and has not attempted to prepare himself for, the role of Commander-in-Chief.

Romney bemoaned the fact that the U.S. Navy has fewer ships than it used to – at any time since 1917, he claimed. He also described Syria as Iran’s “path to the sea.” Romney’s interest in the Navy and its capabilities was and is for political purposes only. If he actually had any interest in the Navy, he would know that its last major surface engagement was fought against – the Iranian Navy.

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Tuesday August 14, 2012 · 3:12 AM PDT

2012/08/14 · 03:12

Heckuva way to start your Florida campaign swing, Willard.

According to local and national press reports, the Republican nominee held a campaign event in Miami last night hosted by Reinaldo Bermudez, a convicted cocaine trafficker.

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Sunday July 31, 2011 · 7:24 PM PDT

2011/07/31 · 19:24

I'm just asking.

This time, we have to swallow trillions of dollars in cuts to domestic programs, including Medicare. I know, I know, benefits aren't supposed to be touched. But if payments to doctors are cut, something has to give. Paying doctors less will not increase the number willing to take Medicare patients. Paying less will not improve the quality of their care.

People who rely on Medicare will pay for deficit reduction. People with private jets will not.

And what's next?

Califlander

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Thursday September 02, 2010 · 2:00 PM PDT

2010/09/02 · 14:00

The military judge presiding over the court-martial of Army Lietenant Colonel Terrence Lakin, who earlier this year refused to deploy when ordered to Afghanistan, has denied Lakin's request for an order seeking to obtain President Obama's birth certificate and other records.

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Thursday April 22, 2010 · 4:27 PM PDT

2010/04/22 · 16:27

The U.S. Army has begun the formal process of court-martialing a birther.

Army Lieutenant Colonel Terry Lakin, a doctor assigned to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, has been charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for his refusal to deploy to Afghanistan and for refusing to obey various other military orders.

Lakin, who has served for close to eighteen years on active duty, announced via YouTube that he would not go to Afghanistan because he is not convinced the President lawfully holds his office. Lakin acknoweldged that in so doing, he was inviting his own court-martial; and today, the Army accepted his invitation.

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Thursday October 15, 2009 · 10:25 PM PDT

2009/10/15 · 22:25

It was waiting for me in the mailbox.

A thick, standard-sized envelope, it was addressed to me by name. The lettering on the outside hinted at a tantalizing promise of bipartisanship, of crossing the ideological divide between Red and Blue, of coming together as one nation, united to achieve the grandeur that is America.

REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP CENSUS ENCLOSED, it read.

Could it be? Was it possible that the GOP was turning away from its tradition of sneering, our-way-or-the-highway smugness? Seeking to reach out to Democrats, to forge a new path for Republicans and to achieve the utopian vision of compromise and kumbaya so fervently sought after by the pundits and poobahs of the permanent political class?

Nah. It's just another Republican screw-up. So let's have fun with it, shall we?

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Question # 16: Is it important for the GOP to support marriage as a sacred union between one man and one woman?

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Question # 16: Is it important for the GOP to support marriage as a sacred union between one man and one woman?

Yes

9 votes

13 votes

It would be a refreshing change from current GOP practice

59 votes

Meikan R.I.P. 2005-2009

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 2:33 AM PDT

2009/09/03 · 02:33

Meikan, my cat, died last Wednesday. He was four and a half years old.

I first met Meikan at a pet store in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 2005. I was in the store to pick up supplies for the four cats who already shared our home. I'm not sure why I went into the store's kitten adoption center, but we had lost our fifth cat to kidney disease about a year before, and I still missed him. Kittens always brighten my day.

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Sunday May 31, 2009 · 4:55 PM PDT

2009/05/31 · 16:55

Time for the right wing to step up to the plate.

Dr. George Tiller was murdered today. Dr. Tiller was the subject of prior attacks by political extremists, who targeted him for performing medical procedures that a local jury recently found were perfectly legal. The acts of violence directed against him and the people who worked with him included at least one prior shooting and the bombing of his clinic.

These acts of terrorism have now claimed the life of an American citizen, on American soil -- at a church, no less.

This is intolerable.

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Saturday May 23, 2009 · 10:05 AM PDT

2009/05/23 · 10:05

I would think Bush would not want to further damage his presidency by clearing the hired help.

-- GOP operative Roger Stone, explaining why Bush would not pardon Karl Rove

Dubya has been very quiet of late

The Bush family has been, repugnant though it is to admit it, one of America's premier political dynasties. Samuel P., Prescott, Poppy, Dubya, Jeb, and someday maybe George P. Bush -- this is a family that has become used to wielding enormous power. Dubya disgraced the family name and sullied the family "brand." But it's unrealistic to think the Bushes and their courtiers, friends, and business associates wouldn't push back.

Dick Cheney has been front and center defending the torture policies of his administration. His nominal boss, not so much. I wonder why?

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If the choice is between saving their family legacy and saving Dick Cheney, will the Bushes throw Cheney ...

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If the choice is between saving their family legacy and saving Dick Cheney, will the Bushes throw Cheney ...

A lifeline

7 votes

An anvil

23 votes

A grenade with its pin pulled

12 votes

Under the next bus to The Hague

23 votes

"Get out of here before I shoot you" (w/ update)

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Sunday November 02, 2008 · 1:26 PM PST

2008/11/02 · 13:26

Panic is an ugly thing. It's even uglier when coupled with pure, unrefined hatred.

Today, someone threatened to shoot my wife.

Our family is a family of die-hard Democrats. Some of my earliest memories are of attending civil rights protests and antiwar rallies with my folks, and helping out on union picket lines by bringing food and water to the people manning the lines. Mrs. Califlander's pedigree is a little more mixed -- her dad has been a staunch Republican most of his life -- but she and her brother have both been active participants and contributers to progressive causes.

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 2:41 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 14:41

Fresh news from the Silver State: the Nevada Secretary of State, Ross Miller, has ruled against efforts by the state Republican Party to deny thousands of registered voters their franchise.

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