**UPDATED** “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,” Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. “We will never have the elite, smart people on our side.” [Buzzfeed] LEAVING MISSOURI couldn’t come fast enough for me. The dreams I had of getting to Broadway [...]
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Virginians Give Republican War on Women a Big Thumbs Down
Voters say 72 – 21 percent that government should not make laws which try to convince women seeking an abortion to change their minds. – Quinnipiac As if things couldn’t get any worse for Gov. Bob McDonnell, who’s hoping Mitt Romney isn’t paying attention to how badly the guv botched the forced ultrasound issue. He’s [...]
John McCain: ‘Respect the Right for Women to Make Choices’
It’s so very basic, but yet it made news when Sen. John McCain said it on Sunday in his conversation with David Gregory. “There’s a perception out there because of the way that this whole contraception issue played out.. We need to get off of that issue. In my view, I think we ought to [...]
Oprah Should Spend Capital to Put OWN in the Political Game
It’s one thing to have a network vision, it’s quite another to make it marketable, watchable and profitable, let alone hip. And if there is one thing OWN is not it’s relevant. OWN seems sleepy and quaint at a moment when women are flexing their power. OWN is missing history. The Susan G. Komen Foundation [...]
Culture Quakes: Turkey’s Soap, Historic Daytime Gay Kiss, Ellen & JC Penny
“Here are the values that I stand for: I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. That’s what I stand for. Oh, also I believe in dance.” – Ellen DeGeneres Here it is yet again, the [...]
Rush Limbaugh Indicted by Women… and now by AOL
“At AOL one of our core values is that we act with integrity,” said Maureen Sullivan, an AOL spokeswoman who confirmed the decision. “We have monitored the unfolding events and have determined that Mr. Limbaugh’s comments are not in line with our values. As a result we have made the decision to suspend advertising on [...]
Rick Santorum: ‘I’m not a visionary, I’m a guy from a steel town.’
**Post Debate Update Below** If Rick Santorum had stuck to that line he might have had a chance, which comes from CBC “This Morning,” with Charlie Rose and Erica Hill. But his arrogant religiosity just wouldn’t allow it, which is why Mitt Romney is gaining on him in Michigan and why I just don’t believe [...]
Transvaginal Probe Gov. Bob McDonnell Wavering on Virginia State Rape Bill
UPDATED – McDonnell Statement Below Religious conservatives are underestimating what signing Virginia’s state rape legislation will mean for the career and ambitions of Gov. Bob McDonnell. Perhaps one of the saner Republicans who actually wants to win a national election gave McDonnell a call. From the Washington Post: Until this weekend, McDonnell (R) and his [...]
Sunday Sermon: Jeremiah Wright, Baptizing the Dead, and Aspirin Between Her Legs
Ironically, Lawless noted, all the attention to contraception at the moment may end up boosting the overall public standing of the 2010 health care law. Free preventive health care, whether it’s a cancer screening or the pill, may well become as popular as provisions like allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ health plans [...]
Mitt Romney is Struggling Because GOP Primary Voters Know He’s Hiding Something
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 the whole [...]
Why Would Anyone Vote Republican Today?
The above graphic is compliments of Virginia Republicans, though it really could have come from any GOP office today. When you look at the anti-democratic actions of Ohio’s Gov. John Kasich, or Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin, not to mention the war on women being waged by right-wing zealots across our country, it’s amazing that [...]
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