The GOP nominees for Arizona governor and secretary of state, both of whom baselessly claim the 2020 election was stolen, and face uphill battles to win in November, lost their federal lawsuit to compel Arizona to count ballots by hand. (See story here.) What they tried to do in court, Republicans i[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2022 Elections’
August 26th, 2022 - 9:50 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Judge upholds Arizona’s use of voting machines
August 26th, 2022 - 5:48 pm § in Politics
GOP’s new campaign strategy: Deleting their candidates’ remarks
In a campaign season when GOP grassroots voters have nominated a motley collection of quacks, cranks, election deniers, and toxic organisms to run for important public offices, Republican handlers are adopting an insanely rational strategy: Deleting what their candidates said. In Colorado, a local R[...]
August 26th, 2022 - 12:25 am § in Politics
Is Marco Rubio trying to commit political suicide?
Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been a U.S. Senator for 11 years now, and over that time he’s committed to being mealy-mouthed about abortion (see article here). He’s also flip-flopped. Back in 2013, he sponsored a Senate bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks, with exceptions for the life of the mo[...]
GOP attack ad puts blackface on black mayor
“Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused a conservative super PAC of darkening her skin in a television ad meant to slam Illinois’ Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 (read story and see video of ad here). T[...]
Technically, nobody is too stupid to be a U.S. senator
Seriously, the only qualifications to be a U.S. senator are you must “have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and … when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State …” (U.S. Const., Art. I, §3). The Framers intentionally gave[...]
Most GOP voters still think Trump should be above the law
An NBC News poll conducted Aug. 12-16, 2022, asked if the investigations of Trump should continue. The results were: All voters, 57% yes; Democrats, 92% yes; Independents, 67% yes; Republicans, 21% yes. Read story here, see detailed poll results here. The poll shows about three-fourths of American[...]
August 20th, 2022 - 1:11 am § in Politics
These GOP candidates deserve to lose and probably will
One of the emerging themes of the 2022 elections is that the GOP is still Trump’s party, as shown by the many primary victories of candidates he endorsed. Two of those candidates are Kari Lake, running for Arizona governor, and Blake Masters, running for John McCain’s Arizona Senate seat[...]
August 19th, 2022 - 2:10 pm § in Politics
You can’t judge a candidate by his Bible quotes
Joshua Schopp (photo, left), 20, is a Republican school board candidate in Central, Louisiana, a Baton Rouge suburb. Living in Washington state, I don’t see much logic in electing 20-year-olds to school boards, but maybe in Louisiana they already have kids in school by then. In any case, Schop[...]
Are Republicans cannibals?
Look, this isn’t my idea, and I didn’t choose that word, nor is this new. Over 15 years ago, in 2007 to be exact, Huffington Post published an essay titled, “Cannibals on the Right: Republicans Eating Their Own.” Sample quote: “Then the Republican ‘you eat me, tha[...]
August 14th, 2022 - 3:29 pm § in Politics
Should 2 drowning people cling to each other?
If Democrats escape political destruction in the 2022 midterms, they’ll owe it to awful GOP candidates, at least in part. Take Pennsylvania, where GOP voters nominated a New Jersey TV star to represent them in the Senate, and an avowed Christian nationalist and QAnon-hugger to run their state [...]