Fortunately, there’s at least some backlash in response to Republicans mocking injured veterans during the convention. Even leading Republicans said yesterday that things went a little too far when they had to publicly repudiate the actions of a delegate who was handing out adhesive bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Mr. Kerry’s war wounds. […]
The Republican Party of Illinois sure has found itself quite a Senate candidate, hasn’t it? Alan Keyes, the Republican candidate for a vacant U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, said Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter Mary was a “selfish hedonist” for being a lesbian. Keyes, who twice unsuccessfully ran for the Senate in Maryland, […]
Over the weekend, House Speaker Dennis Hastert went on national television and accused billionaire philanthropist George Soros of receiving money from criminal drug cartels. Soros, not surprisingly, is demanding an apology, but for reasons that deny comprehension, Hastert and the Speaker’s office are standing by the slanderous attack. In a tartly worded demand faxed to […]