• February 13, 2012

presidency

The Value Voters Summiteers held a presidential straw poll as part of their weekend activities, and the gold medalist in both the presidential and vice-presidential categories was Indiana Congressman Mike Pence. People were surprised! And not just because the contender pool included Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and other famous wingnut celebrities, but because who in [...]

A 60 Minutes / Vanity Fair media odd-couple (seriously, that is like used condom full of oatmeal) poll conducted earlier this month asked people what they think about freelance talker Sarah Palin, and it turns out most people don’t see her being an “effective” president. WHAT? What part of her half-term governorship of a barren [...]

The Republican Party’s fastest rising star, 2006 re-election loser former Senator Rick Santorum, went to the big city last week to start making plans for Jesus and Rick’s Presidential Campaign Adventure 2012. Santorum, you see, raised more money for his PAC (really? are all these candidates really unemployed with nothing else to do?) than Mike [...]

The Federal Election Commission has ordered Joe Biden’s 2008 presidential campaign (ha!) to pay $219,000 back to the government after finding good ol’ Joe made some record-keeping errors, used someone’s charter plane without paying as much as he should have for it, and somehow raised too much money from some people. Yes, the campaign that [...]

This asshole, again, with the presumptuousness and the Abraham Lincoln fetish. Umm, a little respect for the current President George Bush and his accomplishments would be nice? It’s really just common manners to wait until you’re officially the black president before embarking on these quote-unquote historic presidential lunches. OH, but *god forbid* the MSM ever [...]