It's impossible to reason with the Tea Baggers. They just lurch from rally to rally muttering about "lower taxes" and "brains." And don't get 'em started on Obama.

Of all the many lessons we can draw from this election, the one that looms out for me is that wanton attacks on another candidate's gender don't win v...

Who gets to decide what the narrative for women in politics really is? Is it the female candidates who choose to run? The media that interprets them to the public? The platforms they align themselves with?

One of the early narratives written during this midterm election cycle highlighted Sarah Palin's "mama grizzlies" and the power and potential of some ...

So I'm waiting for my husband to show up at the Austin Airport, and I'm sticking near the Barbara Jordon statue. And then it hits me. That statue of former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is the answer to my mama grizzly problem.

With Christine O'Donnell's victory, Tea Baggers are sending the same kind of naive, misguided, anger-fueled message to the Republican Party that the Naderites sent to Democrats in the 2000 presidential election.

Two years from now Palin will once again be reminded that while some voters may salivate at the thought of hearing her speak, they still cringe at the thought of her as president.

The "Battle of the Babes," as some political watchers in the state are calling it, will decide more than just who holds South Dakota's at-large House ...

Just think Newt, after you and The Wasilla Wonder are nominated you can start thinking about your cabinet, and how you can stock it with brilliant 21st Century thinkers and bridge-builders like Rand Paul, Ken Buck and Sharron Angle.

With Palin on the campaign trail once again, with self-righteous, morality-police guns ablaze, it's comic relief listening to her Tea Party drivel about family values and "taking back America" to the way our Founding Fathers would want it.

So far, like her Tea Baggin' pals Michele Bachmann, Sharron Angle and Rand Paul, Palin offers nothing meaningful to the debate and excites no one beyond her narrow-minded, race-baiting base.

I'm confused by your recent video calling for an uprising of "Mama Grizzlies"; specifically, how you are now casting your nonsensical ideological narrow-mindedness as protecting "Mama Grizzlies." Don't you hunt bears from helicopters?