Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. A tweet from Think Progress: "Gingrich talking about "˜vulture capitalism'... that would not have happened without #ows' - Springsteen http://thkpr.gs/yh0NKe ..." I've not heard any cuts from Springsteen's soon to be released album, "Wrecking Ball," and while I've enjoyed some of his music, I've not [...]
THE MITT ROMNEY CRISIS transcends the seven straight national polls showing Rick Santorum in the lead. It goes beyond the embarrassing reality that the son of an auto executive and two-term governor has been behind in every Michigan poll conducted since Groundhog's Day. Even more devastating for Romney is that elite Republicans have begun to [...]
Fresh from CPAC, tough guy Sheriff Paul Babeau, who was also Mitt Romney's Arizona co-chair, has gotten himself sacked and out. "All of the allegations are false except one, I am gay," Babeu said. - Politico, David Catanese You mean the allegations that you threatened an ex-lover with deportation if he didn't keep the affair [...]
Politico's Maggie Haberman asks the question I've been answering for weeks, which also shines klieg lights on Mitt Romney's problem: Will women vote for Rick Santorum? Of course they won't, which is just one reason Romney is the only choice for Republicans, but he's locked in a wingnut death match that will take [...]
Art offers his perspective as a movement progressive activist. The Mormon Church apologized Tuesday for a "serious breach of protocol" after it was discovered that the parents of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized as Mormons. The church also acknowledged that one of its members tried to baptize posthumously three relatives of [...]
A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can't win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. "If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate," said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity. [...]