Author: BooMan

What Was Huckabee Talking About

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus invited former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be the keynote speaker at the RNC’s winter meeting, but it appears that he regrets that decision: Priebus responded to...

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Gotta Wear Shades

Sadly, but also somewhat fortuitously, Ed Kilgore is correct about this: Now anyone who reads this blog surely knows by now that the bright 2014 prospects for an unregenerated GOP are largely baked into the cake, thanks to a...

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This One is Mainly on Stupid

Paul Waldman tries and mostly fails to explain to me what the hell Mike Huckabee was trying to say. I agree that all most women heard was Huckabee calling them sluts, but I am pretty sure that that wasn’t his intended...

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Turning Out the Latino Vote

The National Council of La Raza and Mi Familia Vota Education Fund launched a major voter registration drive yesterday, with the aim of registering a quarter million new Latino voters before the midterm elections. It’s...

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Who Will Be in the GOP Field?

If former UN Ambassador John Bolton runs for president then I think Rep. Pete King’s candidacy would be redundant. I suspect Rick Santorum will run for a couple of reasons. First, he has nothing else to do. Second, the GOP...

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