Laura Bush is entitled to her opinions, but she couldn’t have picked a sillier forum to talk about media bias. First lady Laura Bush thinks the news media is increasingly filled with opinions instead of facts, and suggested Tuesday that journalists are contributing to the polarization of the country. “I think there are a lot […]
I promise not to do this all the time. Fact-checking every speech Dick “Go F— Yourself” Cheney delivers would be virtually impossible — it’d require a full-time staff just to chronicle all of his misstatements, better yet correct them. That said, I think Cheney’s comments in Arkansas yesterday about energy policy require special attention because […]
The Bush’s campaign’s blog may end up regretting this one. The conservative National Review ran an item yesterday mocking firefighters who have expressed support for the Kerry campaign. That’s typical for the National Review’s style and no one was particularly surprised. But it’s a little more problematic when the Bush campaign highlights the article on […]
This is one of those scenarios that’s almost too scary to even think about, but it’s so serious, it can’t be overlooked. In his 2002 SOTU, Bush seemed to have his priorities straight. “The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the worlds’ most destructive weapons,” […]
John Kerry will do something today that George Bush would never do: Brag about support from Big Business. In a campaign in which the Dems are more-than-anxious to go after traditional GOP voters, this makes a lot of sense. It may even have the desired effect. The Wall Street Journal reported in June that what […]
This probably won’t help those conspiracy theories about Bush and the House of Saud: Imagine what documentary filmmaker Michael Moore could have done with this: Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, last year gave President Bush, his family and top aides $128,000 worth of fine jewelry, according to the State Department’s annual list […]
I guess the GOP outreach to the African-American community has suffered yet another setback. A racist/lunatic named James L. Hart will probably be the Republican nominee in a Tennessee congressional race this year. [Hart] is an unapologetic supporter of eugenics, the phony science that resulted in thousands of sterilizations in an attempt to purify the […]
Carpetbagger regulars know that I pay particular attention to two traditionally-Republican constituencies that, I believe, may shift to Kerry-Edwards this year. The first is the military vote, which I discussed in some detail yesterday. The other is the Cuban-American vote, about which I’m just as optimistic. In the 1992 and 1996 elections, Bill Clinton was […]
Bob Novak reported this week that John Kerry’s constant references to his heroic military service during the convention leave the Bush gang with little choice: Kerry’s decorated service will be an area for GOP attack. Kerry has opened a door that could prove troublesome for him…. Until now, Bush campaign strategists have given Kerry a […]
On Sunday night, the offices of the Ohio AFL-CIO were broken into and all of their computers were stolen. According to a report from ABC News, this is no joke. There “were no signs of forced entry and the union’s office was the only one in the building robbed.” Now I’m not one to jump […]