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How Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers Are Blowing Up the GOP

Susan J. Demas | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Susan J. Demas

When extremists are a (vocal) minority, reasonable Republicans and independents come out of the woodwork. And the spoils go to the Democrats, who look comparatively sane.

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Actor Matthew Marsden Hides Right-Wing Political Views

Jackson Williams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Jackson Williams

If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.

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Frank Rich On Scozzafava Fallout: The GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...

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Sarah Palin, Republican Bigwigs Support Doug Hoffman Over Dierdre Scozzafava In Upstate Congressional Battle

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York

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CAZENOVIA, N.Y. — Prominent Republicans like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin are bucking the GOP ...

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Sarah Palin Not Qualified To Be President, 7 In 10 Say In New Poll

Politics Daily | Bruce Drake | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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Fifty-six percent of Americans thinks Sarah Palin cares about people like them, something which many Republican presidential candidates have not share...

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2012 GOP Candidates as Diverse And Exciting as Their Ideas

Julie Farby | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Julie Farby

In the vast wasteland that is the 2012 GOP presidential landscape, fresh-faced stars join seasoned statesman to create a powerful right-wing juggernau...

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Tim Pawlenty Goes Off On Obama: "Corrosive"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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Tim Pawlenty, the generally mild-mannered governor of Minnesota, unloaded on President Obama in an interview with the conservative website Newsmax.com...

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Republicans: We're Boxed In By Conservative Commentators

Politico | Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party's chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboya...

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Sam Stein

Democrats Move Swiftly To Trash Pawlenty

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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Democrats moved swiftly on Thursday to frame potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty as a political creature cut from the same c...

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Pawlenty Files PAC Forms, Preps 2012 Campaign Team

AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A team of Republican consultants with experience on the presidential level will help run Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's new pol...

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Pawlenty Presidential Run Not Wanted By Most Minnesotans

Minnesota Star Tribune | Rachel E. Stassen-Berger and Pat Doyle | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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A majority of Minnesotans don't want to see Gov. Tim Pawlenty run for president in 2012, but nearly as many say they would give him a look if he were ...

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Pawlenty Gets "Full Flop" From Politifact For Climate Change Shift

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's shifting stance on climate change legislation was deemed a "full flop" by Politifact. The GOP governor used climate ch...

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Memo to Govs. Pawlenty and Perry: States' Rights Rhetoric Belongs In History Books, Not Headlines

Wade Henderson, Esq. | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Wade Henderson, Esq.

The noisiest critics of the federal government's role in health care, the economy, and education are recycling the rhetoric that was used to justify secession, segregation, and other injustices.

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Pawlenty Flips On Climate Change With Sudden Right Turn

Minnesota Public Radio | Tom Scheck | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

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President Obama is promising new steps toward capping greenhouse gas emissions, but Gov. Tim Pawlenty is backing away from his earlier support for new...

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Pawlenty 2012? PAC Formed By Minnesota Governor

AP | BRIAN BAKST | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is preparing to launch a national fundraising committee, another signal the Republican may be posi...

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Huckabee Beats Palin For President In 2012 Straw Poll

AP | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A straw vote suggests former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is a favorite among religious conservatives to be president in 2012. That...

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Pawlenty Moving Further Right To Appease Base

Minnesota Star Tribune | Rachel E. Stassen-Berger | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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He just moved to block ACORN funding in Minnesota. Last week, he called fears over so-called death panels "legitimate" and "not irrational," and floa...

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Pawlenty Demands State Sever All Ties To ACORN -- But There Are None

Minnesota Star Tribune | Bob Von Sternberg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty today joined the chorus of disapproval aimed at the ACORN community organizing group, ordering that state agencies "stop all state f...

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Pawlenty Backs Off, But GOP Wants Constitutional Showdown

Minnesota Star Tribune | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

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Even as three Republican state legislators are pushing for a potential constitutional showdown to sidestep a federal health care overhaul, Gov. Tim Pa...

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Emerging GOP Theme: Nullification

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The code words change over time (from "nullification" to "states' rights" to Pawlenty's "state sovereignty"), but the idea is the same -- we retain the right to ignore any laws we don't feel like following.

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Pawlenty Called Out On Undocumented Immigrant Claim

Think Progress | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

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Today on ABC's This Week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) defended Rep. Joe "You Lie!" Wilson's (R-SC) concern that undocumented immigrants would be a...

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Pawlenty Backs Off 10th Amendment Threat

ABC News | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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On 'This Week', Minn. Governor Tim Pawlenty backed away from earlier statements suggesting he'd invoke the 10th Amendment to block Obama's health care...

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Pawlenty: States' Rights To Reject Health Care Reform "A Possibility"

Minnesota Public Radio News | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he may invoke state sovereignty to keep Minnesota from fully participating in a health care reform plan, if passed by Congress ...

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New Rule...

Will Menaker | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

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Will Menaker

Right now we're the Notre Dame of super-powers, coasting on long-past glory and sweet-heart TV deals.

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Pawlenty: If Dems Use Public Option As Trigger, They'll Shoot Themselves In The Foot

cnn.com | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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Even as members of President Obama's fractured party appeared to warm to the notion of putting a so-called "trigger" on any public health insurance op...

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