Rick Perry

In Arizona and Texas, A Planned Parenthood Free-for-All

"Family planning:" The wholly innocent term infuriates the pro-life community. To them, it connotes Big Government abortions, the movie Juno and everything that is "morally wrong" with women's reproductive health (apparently, there is a lot). Since the female health service organization Planned ... More >>

Political Panties: Yes, There Are Rick Santorum Thongs (and Boy Briefs!)

Politics makes strange bedfellows -- but it makes even stranger lingerie. Runnin' Scared has scoured the Internet (or maybe just searched CafePress, whatevs) and found several pairs of party line-oriented panties for your viewing plaisir. Enjoy!

"The War On Religion" Is Bullshit!

At the Republican debate on Saturday night, several candidates insisted that bigotry goes both ways, and in fact the Catholic Church is the object of steaming piles of it. In the course of the debate, Rick Perry denounced "the war on religion" and Newt Gingrich fumed: "Should the Catholic Church b ... More >>

Rick Perry: There is Not One Non-White Person in America. (Also, Rick Santorum is a Pig!)

Usually, the advisors of even the most aging white male Republican candidate will pay some crude lip service to the idea of a multi-culti America. Not Rick Perry, though; we've watched his latest video "America is Caling" through a couple of times, and from what we can see, there is not one non-whit ... More >>

Surgin' Santorum! Rightbloggers Not So Frothy for This Week's Next President of the United States

The wheel of fortune has spun once again, and the GOP Next President of the United States of the Week is now Rick Santorum. Mind you, no one thinks Santorum will actually be the nominee. He's just running third in some optimistic polls -- of the Iowa caucuses, which is no bellwether. Yet all the wo ... More >>

Newt Gingrich and Gov. Rick Perry Fail To Qualify For Virginia Primary

​Last night, the Republican Party of Virginia announced on their Twitter account that Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry did not submit the required 10,000 signatures they needed to qualify for the VA primary. In response to the news, the Gingrich campaign says that Virginia has "a failed system." V ... More >>

Keith Olbermann And I Dish Half-Naked Republicans!

Vanity Fair has posted a hilarious mock calendar of various Repuglicans in various states of undress. (At least I think they're fake photos. The Repugs' real nudie spreads are no doubt buried somewhere deep inside their cell phones.)

Newt Gingrich, Thrice Married Adulterer, Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Protect Marriage From the Gays

Newt's portrait as Speaker, when he was hunting Bill Clinton for adultery while committing adultery himself​Behold, the power of NOM, the National Organization for Marriage. Newt Gingrich announced on Friday that he supports a constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage marriage. This was ... More >>

Matt Taibbi: Vampire Squid Metaphor 'Clearly Getting a Little Old'

​In 2009, Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi applied the most apt metaphor for Goldman Sachs that anyone has yet come up with, calling the bank "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." The phrase took ... More >>

Holy Shit! Mitt Romney Made a Fake Bet!

Last night, the remaining Republican presidential candidates met at Drake University in Des Moines for a debate that lasted almost two hours. What they said doesn't matter, however, as the only thing people will remember is the moment when Mitt Romney asked Rick Perry if he wanted to bet "ten thousa ... More >>

Mitt Romney Hammers Gingrich on Moon Policy, Space Mirrors

Newt's America.​Earlier, we wrote about last night's GOP debate in Des Moines and Mitt Romney's proposed $10,000 bet with Rick Perry over claims that Romney's book was edited to change a portion about health care. This fleeting and insignificant moment overshadowed the real issues that were di ... More >>

Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Ad Features Music by Gay Composer Aaron Copland [UPDATE]

​By now, you've probably seen Rick Perry's "Strong" ad, in which he opines, "There's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." Not only are gays in our military, they're also composing music for ... More >>

Why Do People Want Rick Perry To Be More "Disliked" Than Rebecca Black?

​You may have heard that Rick Perry's mind-meltingly horrible anti-gay campaign ad has more dislikes on YouTube than Rebecca Black's "Friday." The story has been covered by Time, the Today Show, and the Huffington Post, among many others. There's only one problem: that's not actually true. The ... More >>

Rick Perry and the Curious Case of Gay Griping

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the military's discriminatory ban barring homosexuals from serving openly, was signed out of law a year ago this month. After an exhaustive implementation review by the President, the Joint-Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary of Defense, it officially ended almost three months ... More >>

Presidential Campaign Stores: Who's Got the Best Crap?

With the New Hampshire primary less than two months away, candidates are taking to the airwaves with commercials and televised debates to get their messages out. They have been honing their talking points and refining their images to make you, the voter, comfortable enough to buy what they're sellin ... More >>

Does Marriage Make The Gays Boring?

I want to get married like I want to join the military

Let's Play The Republican Presidential Debate Drinking Game!

​Tonight marks yet another Republican presidential debate, and podium enthusiasts across the country will be glued to their TV screens when the candidates take the stage. The CBS/National Journal/Pennzoil/Burger King/Papa John's/AMC Loews/Comcast/Olive Garden/Mercedes/StarKist/Beef 'O' Brady's ... More >>

Which Was the Worse Gaffe: Herman Cain's "Princess Nancy" or Rick Perry's Dementia?

These Republican debates are getting more bizarre every week, and last night, we were treated to not one but too epic moments. Herman Cain, the one time Godfather's Pizza CEO and implausible front runner in primary poling for the GOP nomination, has been on the ropes the past couple of weeks for, as ... More >>

Bad Lip Reading: An Interview With the Man Behind The Beautiful Nonsense

BLRHerman Cain, only slightly less coherent when given the Bad Lip Reading treatment.​For several months, it's been hard to take a stroll around the internet without tripping on the Bad Lip Reading video series, which overdubs new speech onto familiar popular videos. The results bear a super ... More >>

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Rightbloggers Double Down on the Second Coming of Herman Cain

Months ago, rightbloggers were celebrating the rise of Herman Cain. Then they grew restless, and moved on to Michele Bachman, Rick Perry, and Chris Christie, each of whom disappointed. Now Cain is back, hilariously leading in some GOP Presidential polls and winning some straw polls, too. Cain is pr ... More >>

What You Can Learn About Rick Perry From His Interview in Parade Magazine

​Rick Perry gave an interview to Parade Magazine (this week's issue was, yet again, almost completely devoid of any coverage on parades or the parade-attending lifestyle) and people are needling him for comments he made about Barack Obama's birth certificate. He told the interviewer that he ha ... More >>

Mitt Romney: "I'm Running for Office, for Pete's Sake! I Can't Have Illegals!"

It was a strange debate last night, even by the standards of this year's crop of Republican primary candidates. Michelle Bachmann (who looked disarmingly like a post Jedi Princess Leia) promised to build a "double fence" along the length of the United States/Mexico border; Herman Cain slipped into h ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street: 10 Halloween Costumes of the Movement

#8: Fat Cats on Wall Street​Halloween is one of the few opportunities we have throughout the year to dress as something else, something that we may never be, something that we may never WANT to be, with impunity and without obligation. And while some blogs are telling us that the costume of th ... More >>

Herman Cain: Could Two Black Men Actually Head Up the 2012 Presidential Tickets?

​Well, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal have got something hard to top, even if you're in the pizza business: Herman Cain is now leading the pack of Republican presidential candidates in their poll with 27 percent, besting Mitt Romney by four points and trouncing the narcoleptic, unfortuna ... More >>

Mitt Romney's The Republican Frontrunner

​Check out this thoughtful piece which explains why, after his endorsement from Chris Christie and his performance at the last debate, Mitt Romney is the top dog to try to boot Obama from employment. Author John Dickerson says that at the New Hampshire debate, Rick Perry "was too vague and fu ... More >>

Mitt Romney Not a Christian, Says Mega-Christian With Megachurch

Robert Jeffress, the evangelical megachurch pastor who introduced Rick Perry at the Voter Values Summit yesterday, has publicly questioned Mitt Romney's faith. Politico reports that when asked whether Mitt Romney was a Christian, Jeffress said, "No." Jeffress added, "That is a mainstream view, that ... More >>

After the Death Penalty, Still Fighting for Justice in Incendiary: The Willingham Case

Rick Perry's Texas Fantasyland

Rick Perry's Texas is a job-makin', low-taxin' oasis of economic growth. It's also a fantasy.

This Week in the Voice: Kathy Griffin, Rick Perry's Fantasy Texas

​This week in the Voice, out today: Jim Schutze analyzes the economy of Rick Perry's Texas. It's definitely not the small government, super-low-tax fantasyland Perry would like you to think it is. Michael Musto and Kathy Griffin talk Tourette's and Paula Abdul. Harry Siegel details a possib ... More >>

Rick Perry and the Curious Case of 'Niggerhead' Ranch

No, this isn't what the sign on Rick Perry's property was referring to. ​Courtesy of a great story in the Washington Post, Rick Perry and his advisors are going to have a hard time observing their sabbath as a day of rest this Sunday. When we awoke this morning to read in Politico's Playbook ... More >>

Rick Perry's 'Niggerhead' Ranch vs. Michael Jackson's 'Neverland' Ranch: Which is Stranger?

When we first wrote about Rick Perry's "Niggerhead" Ranch, we were struck by how it phonetically reminded us of another infamous getaway spot: Michael Jackson's "Neverland" Ranch. Both were occupied by larger than life personalities. Both ranches had names that raised eyebrows, especially given w ... More >>

It's Not Too Late to Buy This 6-Foot Rick Perry Chia Head

​Necessity is the mother of invention, and we need a 6-foot terra cotta flower planter that looks extraordinarily like Texas Governor/wannabe presidential nominee Rick Perry. It is for sale on eBay for $4,500 (local pick-up offered in Blanco, Texas). "The outline of his hair is surprisingly ac ... More >>

As Rick Perry Stumbles, Rightbloggers Run To (Non-Candidate) Chris Christie

The economy sucks, and so do President Obama's poll numbers. Yet many smart people think Obama's got a chance at reelection next year. Why? Because he gets to run against the nominee of the Republican Party, which seems hellbent on throwing the election. In the GOP's latest slapstick routine, put ... More >>

Lizz Winstead Tells Us Why She Wants to Make Planned Parenthood Like LensCrafters

Photo by Mindy Tucker​Lizz Winstead is a wee bit tired. She's been traveling since June 14 with her "Planned Parenthood, I'm Here For You!" Comedy Tour, which has spanned 12 cities and 10 states. Plus she's been working on her upcoming book, out in June of 2012. All this activity "does energiz ... More >>

We Would Like to Make a Motion to Institute 'Tweet That You Have Had HPV Day'

​HPV: Have you heard of it? You probably have, because in the last few days and weeks it's been talked about a lot -- often incorrectly -- by people like Michele Bachmann and, most recently, tweeted about by Ayelet Waldman, wife of novelist Michael Chabon. In Bachmann's case, she's using HPV v ... More >>

Called Anti-Science, Rightbloggers Reply That Science is a Liberal Plot

With the ascension of Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and other GOP candidates who don't cotton to this evolution or climate change stuff, people have begun to ask if Republicans and conservatives are actually becoming hostile to science. It doesn't help that one of those people is Repu ... More >>

Gays Should Be Criminalized Again!

​That's what a spokesperson for the American Family Association shot out of his mouth the other day, desperate for a return to the good old days when holding hands with someone of the same sex could land you a free trip to jail. For all I know, he'd even like to turn the USA into Uganda, wher ... More >>

Rick Perry's Hip-Hop Prayer BBQ Didn't Create Jobs

Wikipedia​A lot has been made of Texas Governor Rick Perry's prayer rally, which he led this morning in Houston's Reliant Stadium. Perry, who is ramping up his campaign to be the Republican presidential candidate in 2012, insists that there were no political motivations to the gathering. Exact ... More >>

Rightbloggers Herald the Rise of Our Next President, Michele Bachmann. (Or Some Guy Who Isn't Running.)

In the future, everyone will be a serious Republican Presidential candidate for 15 minutes. We're close to that now. Last Monday several GOP contenders for the big job debated in New Hampshire, and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's relatively lulu-free performance appears to have pushed he ... More >>

Mitch Daniels Out of 2012 Race; Herman Cain is the Next President of the United States

Despite the speculation of Fox News ("he has a proven record of managing the kinds of fiscal problems that beset our nation"), the Washington Post ("a Daniels candidacy probably would be taken as a sign that the games are over for the Republican Party, that it is time to buckle down and organize to ... More >>

Toting Your Handy Firearm Will Make That Drink Taste So Much Better, Sir

​Good news for people who feel that they need to protect themselves with guns in bars; bad news for those of us who just want to get our drink on without the threat of impending bloodshed or ricochet action totally blowing our buzz. Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, and Virginia will now let you br ... More >>

Obama Pleads for Civility at Prayer Breakfast, Despite Outbreak of Apologies

President Obama appeared at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning and made a plea for "civility... learning how to disagree without being disagreeable." (As shown in the TPM clip above, he also made a mild joke about birthers.) This comes at an interesting time, as high-level apologies for ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Connecting Warsaw to Guadalupe with Language

Giuliani Will Stump for Secessionist Gun Nut Texas Governor

​Rudolph Giuliani is preparing for his expected gubernatorial run by shoring up his Republican credentials. He's been heavily involved in the state party's doings, and now he's doing his bit for the national party by making speeches for Texas Governor Rick Perry. Perry gave Giuliani a much-nee ... More >>

Radicals of the Moment

Public enemies tricoastal, and that doesn't even count the Balkan guys

FEMA Nixes Grassroots Radio Station for Hurricane Evacuees

Bureaucracy KO's info source at the Astrodome

Hillary Clinton Strikes Gold in Bush Country

Texas ranks second only to New York in bucks for the senator

The Courting of Bill

Busting that GOP dream plot: shut out Hillary by appointing hubby to Supreme Court

Against Interpretation

Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on