Fred Karger 2012

Fred Karger "Sexy Frisbee" Ad Pulled From YouTube Because Of 'Inappropriate' Content

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.25.2012

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Fred Karger's longshot bid for the White House typically doesn't get much attention, primarily because he was deemed too unpopular in polls to compete...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For April 20, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2012

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For as long a time as your Speculatroners have been dutifully cataloguing the damage that the primary process has been doing to Mitt Romney's brand, w...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For April 13, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.13.2012

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This week, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum decided that the time to quit his upset bid had finally come. He shuttered a campaign that had risen...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For April 6, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2012

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So, did you hear? This week, the GOP nomination pretty much became a settled issue. Barring some accident or emergency (or some freaktastic alchemical...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 30, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2012

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This week the attention that's mainly been lavished on covering the 2012 campaign got reoriented, slightly, in the direction of the steps of the Supre...

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Fred Karger On NOM's 'Racially-Driven' Strategies And Document Leak

HuffingtonPost.com | Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 03.28.2012

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The secret documents that show the divisive, racially-driven strategies of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) have received enormous media a...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 23, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2012

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But as important as the win in Illinois was for cementing Team Romney's delegate realities, the most critical turn in the race wouldn't come until Wed...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 16, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.16.2012

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Last week, after the dust had settled on Super Tuesday, we surmised that you couldn't really call the 2012 GOP primary contest a battle between Mitt R...

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The Man From Lincoln, Part 5: State Fair! (Or, Fred Karger vs. Rick Santorum)

John Fitzgerald Keitel | Posted 05.16.2012

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Although Santorum seemed affable enough, he also looked like a deer caught in the headlights, and those headlights belonged to an 18-wheeler named Fred Karger rolling right for him. How wrong could I have been?

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No More Mr. Nice Gay: An Interview With GOP Presidential Hopeful Fred Karger

Kristen Hotham Carroll | Posted 05.09.2012

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I've been following Fred's virtual campaign trail, and I have developed a great respect for the battles he has waged, in an arena where he is not even remotely wanted or accepted. I caught up with Fred March 8.

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 9, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.09.2012

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Bill Kristol says it's just getting started. Sarah Palin says all bets are off. Other GOP luminaries say that so far, what they've seen has been "a collective yawn." What are they talking about? The GOP race for the 2012 presidential nomination, that's what. And all of these assessments have been handed down from on high in the wake of Super Tuesday's results. But wasn't Super Tuesday a pretty unequivocal win for Mitt Romney, leaving him as the only candidate with a path to the nomination that doesn't require a series of miraculous events?

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Meet Fred Karger, Gay GOP Presidential Candidate (AUDIO)

Charlotte Robinson | Posted 05.08.2012

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Fred Karger is one of the bravest activists that our LGBT community has. He is the first openly gay presidential candidate from a major political party in American history, in the most homophobic presidential race this country has ever seen.

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 2, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2012

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With nothing but weeks of time to fill between Maine's Caucuses and this week's primaries, we heard unending talk about the importance of the Michigan...

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The Man From Lincoln, Part 4: A New Chapter In American History Begins Today

John Fitzgerald Keitel | Posted 04.25.2012

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It was April 2010, and I was on my way to New Orleans for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. Fred was planning to hold a press conference at the host hotel to announce his "seriously considering" intentions of running for president as an openly gay candidate.

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Feb. 24, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.24.2012

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For the bulk of the campaign season, we've been keenly aware that the GOP establishment-types had some grave misgivings over the fact that Mitt Romney...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Feb. 17, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2012

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This week, one of the few things that anyone found worth talking about in the 2012 race was the extent to which money was likely to determine everythi...

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The Man From Lincoln, Part 3: Saving The Boom

John Fitzgerald Keitel | Posted 04.18.2012

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Armed with an arsenal of strategies honed during a career as an operative for conservative candidates and causes, Fred took on the Boom's new billionaire owner, AIG, and even Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

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The Man From Lincoln, Part 2: Fred Who?

John Fitzgerald Keitel | Posted 04.07.2012

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Fred had a way of saying absolutely nothing about himself in spite of being the life of the party. And here he was -- in a room filled with conservative pols -- going on out loud about Harvey Milk, civil rights, and saving the Boom. Huh? We're talking about a gay bar, right?

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For February 3, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.03.2012

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Congratulations, America: you survived January of 2012, along with its four super-hyped primaries and its eleventy-billion debates. Your reward? A sno...

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The Man from Lincoln, Part 1: You Gotta Give 'Em Hope

John Fitzgerald Keitel | Posted 04.01.2012

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When Fred Karger told me he was considering running for president, 2012 was still over two years away. But this was too good to be true: an openly gay, Jewish Republican -- the guy who'd outed the Mormon Church's backing of Prop. 8 -- going toe to toe with Mitt Romney?

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Jan. 27, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2012

So, yeah, this campaign season is getting ridiculous. Credit the candidates, we guess! From one week to the next, we have seen the race seesaw between...

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Fred Karger Will See Your Tax Return Disclosure And Raise You Even More Tax Returns

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.26.2012

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Longshot GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger has spent the bulk of his campaign doing three things: achieving various "firsts," chief among them be...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Jan. 20, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.21.2012

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This week, as the 2012 race for the GOP nomination swung into South Carolina for its "First in the South" primary, things seemed to come in pairs. ...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Jan. 13, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.13.2012

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With two primary contests in the books, we've arrived at the point where everyone has so much to say about so little and only a few more minutes befor...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For January 6, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2012

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The real reason that we put up with the idea of the Iowa Caucus, despite the quadrennial concerns that it allows a few people from a small state to ha...

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