Posts by David Weigel
Bachmann: ‘I’m not going to fear Keith Olbermann’
WASHINGTON — At a briefing for conservative bloggers at the Heritage Foundation today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann dismissed MSNBC as a network neither she nor “most of the American people” paid attention to.
“Quite honestly I don’t even know anything…
Pawlenty: I support Sara Taylor–style focus on voter registration fraud
WASHINGTON — On a Thursday morning conference call, I got a chance to ask Gov. Tim Pawlenty about voter registration, voter fraud, and his new PAC’s political adviser Sara Taylor. In the Bush administration, as a…
T-Paw PAC hires Bush advisor Taylor
The Minnesota governor’s PAC is rolling out today with a media blitz reflecting the talent of his staff (such as former Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant) and the credibility he’s built up in the political press…
Smearing Sen. Franken
This is some extremely shoddy journalism from Mickey Kaus. The Slate blogger asks if “ACORN chicanery” elected Sen. Al Franken, who won a razor-thin 2008 race for the U.S. Senate after eight months of legal challenges. Kaus links a “tactfully…
Fear of fascism, ‘gay agenda’ dominate conservative kickoff for midterm elections
According to Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the Eagle Forum, the conference drew its largest crowd in 38 years, signaling a surge of grass-roots enthusiasm for 2010.
Bachmann in St. Louis: Defund the Left, beware one-world currency
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Christian right looks to economic worries, debt for 2010 election
While usually attendees at the annual Values Voter Summit focus on hot button social issues, this year the hotel buzzed with the 10th amendment and the national debt.
Pawlenty places third in Value Voters Summit straw poll
In a telling, but non-scientific, survey of the Republican Party’s social conservative base, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) won the 2009 Values Voter straw poll with a 28 percent plurality of the vote. Five-hundred and ninety-seven people voted.
Pawlenty at Value Voters Summit: I’m calling Obama out
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Bachmann: Only “sycophants” trust Obama now
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